Sony’s portable Playstation Portal launches later this year for $199.99

Sony’s portable Playstation Portal launches later this year for $199.99(theverge.com)

5 points by Manozco 2 years ago | 2 comments

  The PlayStation Portal doesn’t have Bluetooth, so you won’t be able to connect to wireless headphones or Sony’s Pulse 3D headset. Instead, it uses a PlayStation Link wireless technology — a new proprietary standard for PlayStation devices.

I was literally thinking about this today. As usual, I had problems with my not too cheap bluetooth headset, and started to curse the whole world: "it's now like 20 years old technology, and it is still unusable. Apple had the chance with Airpods Pro to create a wireless audio tech that just connects, doesn't drop out, sounds good, and works all the time, but they decided against it. I would pay a lot of money for a wireless audio tech that is actually not crap!"

Maybe Sony made it, instead of Apple. I'd be so hopeful, if it wasn't Sony, and it wasn't PlayStation, because it means it will remain niche tech, regardles show great it is. Still, I like to dream.

lazycouchpotato 2 years ago | |

Sony has also created LDAC for Bluetooth. It supports up to 990 kbps at 32 bits/96 kHz. While the encoder is open source, the decoder is proprietary. [1] Latency also appears to be high. [2]

Bluetooth has its annoyances and I would like to see major improvements or a competent successor, but I'd prefer it be an open standard instead of proprietary from Apple or Sony.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LDAC_(codec)

[2] https://nasilemaktech.com/audio-latency-test-sony-ldac-vs-qu...