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1 minute ago, Timmo said:

Anyone know if you can use a PSPlus 14 day trial on an account where you've had Plus before?

 

I'm trying to activate my account temporarily so I can grab control but it's not working, and I'm just trying to work out if it's because I've already been a member of if the code has already been used.

No, I don’t think you can use trials if you were a member before.

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2 hours ago, Popo said:

I’d play Control out of that lot @Capwn, it’s excellent, and the Ultimate Edition on PS Plus is the best looking console version yet. 

 

I started Control for the first time yesterday (albeit on a PS4 Pro) and the lighting is pretty incredible even on that.

 

Also I'm about to have a fight with a telephone.

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Calashnikov

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7 hours ago, Capwn said:

Finished hitman. Not quite sure how to fill up my gaming time until the next game (resident evil in May).

 

bear in mind, until PS5 I didn’t have a PRO or 4K TV...

 

-Uncharted 4 again

- LOU2 again

-GOW again in 60fps

- Continue Horizon Zero Dawn on the additional easy mode they added (I got about 10-15 hrs into it and gave up, too difficult)

- Play Control for the first time (would buy 1 month sub to psplus)

- Play Star Wars  fallen order for the first time 

 

 


Dare you to play an indie game.

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Mike S

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12 hours ago, Spacehost said:

Let’s take a minute to talk about how staggeringly awful this is as a disc media player- honestly, playing a Blu-Ray on this sounds like there’s a motorboat engine in my TV unit; the disc drive makes the entire thing wobble and vibrate. I can’t wait for a revision of this that doesn’t ruin the experience.

 

Yeah, tried the Midsommar UHD on it last night and the noise it makes is unreal. I didn't notice it wobbling and vibrating though, is your base fixed securely?

 

Back to the One X as a disc spinner for me...

 

 

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englishbob

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For noisy disc drives the supplied stand is fucking awful, especially for horizontal placement. It was also true of the 360 and PS4 before, but at least it had a flat base and taking action was nothing more that putting a set of 4 Milty Pods under them.

 

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You need to reduce the amount of vibration thundering through your stand to whatever surface you have it planted on. Due to the stand being completely impractical for this, for the moment I've used x4 old table mats that have a shiny top and a cork base, and then put some Milty Pods under the mats. The PS5's stand then sits onto of the mats, cork side up of course. 

 

Makes a massive difference. Some have used mousemats etc, anything that is flat and not too rigid, like cork of a good piece of wood like a chopping board. You don't necessarily need the Milty Pods underneath to get a massive benefit.

 

It'll be interesting to see if anyone bothers to make a proper 3rd party stand that can help in this regard. At the moment, the default configuration is terrible.

 

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Alex W.

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In my perfection-chasing silent PC days I remember seeing an HDD bracket that suspended the whole thing in the air using sound-isolating bungee cords. Maybe someone could do one of those for the PS5. You could put a board on top of it and use it as a dining table.

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Popo

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Is it just me or is the HDMI-CEC setting on the PS5 bi-directional, so the PS5 can turn in the TV (great!) but the TV can also turn on the PS5; so for example, if I turn on the TV and the last input source was the the one for PS5, the console will turn on too (annoying!). 
 

Have I got it wrong?

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Wiper

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2 minutes ago, Popo said:

Is it just me or is the HDMI-CEC setting on the PS5 bi-directional, so the PS5 can turn in the TV (great!) but the TV can also turn on the PS5; so for example, if I turn on the TV and the last input source was the the one for PS5, the console will turn on too (annoying!). 
 

Have I got it wrong?

 

You have it right. Like so many things with the PS5's underbaked OS, it's a fundamentally flawed implementation of a (in this case, extremely well-established) standard feature.

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43 minutes ago, Wiper said:

 

You have it right. Like so many things with the PS5's underbaked OS, it's a fundamentally flawed implementation of a (in this case, extremely well-established) standard feature.

 

The implementation of HDMI-CEC is exactly the same on PS4 as it is on PS5. There's nothing underbaked about that feature, it's intentional. 

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Quexex

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Finally got round to opening op the PS5 for a clean... However, it had so little dust inside it was not really required.

 

If you are going to take the sides off I recommend you watch this video, it's quick and easy to do with very little force if you do it right. Guys voice doesn't grate either ...

 

 

Also gone from horizontal to vertical.

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Wiper

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22 minutes ago, Kevvy Metal said:

 

The implementation of HDMI-CEC is exactly the same on PS4 as it is on PS5. There's nothing underbaked about that feature, it's intentional. 

 

My PS4 [Pro, if that makes a difference] didn't, and doesn't, do that, on the same TV. It turns on the TV, auto-swaps channels, but (thankfully) doesn't turn itself on with the TV, nor does it power down when I turn the TV off. I can't recall if that's because the behaviour is configurable and I set it up that way, or if it's the default behaviour, but it's definitely not the same as the PS5's annoying behaviour. And if it is intentional then it's, well, a pretty fucking dumb intention, and at odds with the other CEC-enabled devices I have.

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Wiper

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I already have, but it's an old one and Sony don't use IR receivers so that's no help either :(

 

(fortunately it's comfortably the worst media player under my TV,* so it's pretty rare I'd want to control it by remote anyway)

 

 

*okay, I'd probably pick it ahead of my original Xbox

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Popo

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1 hour ago, Kevvy Metal said:

 

The implementation of HDMI-CEC is exactly the same on PS4 as it is on PS5. There's nothing underbaked about that feature, it's intentional. 


That can’t be right. My PS4 Slim doesn’t turn on when the connected input source becomes active. The PS5 behaviour is different. 

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Popo

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I’ve just tested and, while it brings me no pleasure in saying so, you’re all wrong; the PS4 doesn’t turn on when the connected source becomes active. 
 

Perhaps it differs depending on TV - in which case the PS4 and 5 is still different, or; there’s a setting in the PS4 that controls this function... in which case they’re still different! :D
 

The fact that there doesn’t seem to be a way to turn this off on the PS5 is annoying and I hope it gets fixed in an update. 

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Floshenbarnical

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10 hours ago, Popo said:

Is it just me or is the HDMI-CEC setting on the PS5 bi-directional, so the PS5 can turn in the TV (great!) but the TV can also turn on the PS5; so for example, if I turn on the TV and the last input source was the the one for PS5, the console will turn on too (annoying!). 
 

Have I got it wrong?


you fucking what? I thought I was going mad. I thought I had accidentally been leaving the tv in some sort of weird standby mode for the last week, having never accidentally done it in 7 years. So that’s what that is?

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