That's a very high fucking horse to be standing on top off when their device is specifically made to be plugged into a television. Y'know, the thing that almost never can display an image with less than 100 ms of latency even in "game mode". Any decent bluetooth codec has less latency than a standard TV so that's a bullshit excuse.

Also there are low latency bouetooth codecs like AptX-LL with less than 40ms of E2E delay. Sony could enable bluetooth for those devices if it can negociate a low latency codec. They could show a warning about how they can't guarantee the user experience. But they won't.

The real reason is that they want to lock their users into a walled garden where they have an effective oligopoly. It's a very old and scummy business tactict. It's that simple and there's no need to regurgitate their pathetic excuses.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Thank you, I was almost feeling a tinge of sympathy for Sony then I remembered, these businesses have centuries of practice in deceit and any actual benefit that comes to users is incidental to their only actual goal of maximizing profit.

[–] dlpkl 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Not sure what TVs you're using but modern tvs have incredibly low input delay. My Sony X91J has 8.5 ms input delay measured by RTINGS.com, and my model is pretty middle of the pack.

Edit: here's the source https://www.rtings.com/tv/tests/inputs/input-lag

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Nowadays many TVs have very low latency.