Sony is launching a streaming service with 4K Blu-ray picture quality — but it will only be available on Bravia TVs for now. The Bravia Core service will come pre-loaded on all new Bravia XR models, with a catalog of new releases and classic blockbusters from the Sony Pictures archive. The platform uses Sony’s “Pure Stream” tech to reach “near-lossless UHD BD equivalent quality” with streaming up to 80 Mbps, according to Sony. That’s three-to-four times more than Netflix and around double that of Apple TV.  But bear in mind that the bitrates often dip way below the maximum in practice…

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