PlayStation 5 - Next gen is expensive

[Spacehost]

1 minute ago, Pob said:

 

Mine takes me to the TV's shitty homescreen! Which makes sense, otherwise there would no way to get to it. Not that I want to ever get to it, really.

There's a setting somewhere so that the remote's inputs default to go to the connected device rather than the TV, I need to press a special "AnyConnect" or something button on the remote to bring up a menu to let me have the remote control the TV rather than the connected device as a result. I'll have a look later.

[Pob]

1 minute ago, Spacehost said:

There's a setting somewhere so that the remote's inputs default to go to the connected device rather than the TV, I need to press a special "AnyConnect" or something button on the remote to bring up a menu to let me have the remote control the TV rather than the connected device as a result. I'll have a look later.

I think this was what sunk me before - it prohibited me accessing the TV's settings in the rare instances that I'd want to, so I binned it off.

[Spacehost]

All this is making ME want the Media Remote...

[Pob]

2 minutes ago, Spacehost said:

All this is making ME want the Media Remote...

Haha yeah, it could actually be the single-remote solution that I've never quite managed to attain. Perhaps the combo of HDMI-CEC, IR function and Bluetooth will turn out to be the holy grail of media control.

 

I can't see any other downsides to the PS5 as a media player, loud disc drive aside. Time will tell how quiet the fans really are.

[Majora]

Is it not an issue that the PS5 forces HDR on everything? So every piece of content you watch on Netflix etc will be in forced HDR mode unless you keep toggling it off in the system menu?

[Ry]

Has anyone played EDF 5 on PS5? I fancy some EDF action. 

 

Just need to find it at a decent price. Does it ever go on sale on the PS store? 

[Cyhwuhx]

18 minutes ago, Ry said:

Has anyone played EDF 5 on PS5? I fancy some EDF action. 

 

Just need to find it at a decent price. Does it ever go on sale on the PS store? 

4.1 is currently dirt cheap and runs bizarrely well on PS5. 5 is currently also on sale but quite a bit pricier. 

[Pob]

24 minutes ago, Majora said:

Is it not an issue that the PS5 forces HDR on everything? So every piece of content you watch on Netflix etc will be in forced HDR mode unless you keep toggling it off in the system menu?

I don't know, I've not tried it. Is that what it does?

 

I was going to start a 'which new console is the best media player?' thread but I thought it'd be a bit boring. Maybe I should.

[Quexex]

6 minutes ago, Pob said:

I don't know, I've not tried it. Is that what it does?

 

I was going to start a 'which new console is the best media player?' thread but I thought it'd be a bit boring. Maybe I should.

Depending on your TV you can calibrate it to the point that HDR and SDR content appear correctly I believe.

[amorenod]

1 hour ago, Spacehost said:

The Home button on my Bravia remote does the PS button.

 

1 hour ago, Pob said:

 

Mine takes me to the TV's shitty homescreen! Which makes sense, otherwise there would no way to get to it. Not that I want to ever get to it, really.

 

1 hour ago, Spacehost said:

There's a setting somewhere so that the remote's inputs default to go to the connected device rather than the TV, I need to press a special "AnyConnect" or something button on the remote to bring up a menu to let me have the remote control the TV rather than the connected device as a result. I'll have a look later.

 

59 minutes ago, Pob said:

I think this was what sunk me before - it prohibited me accessing the TV's settings in the rare instances that I'd want to, so I binned it off.

 

Interesting. I don't use HMDI-CEC on the PS5 with my Harmony remote and my LG TV precisely because of the lack of a PS button. However, if the Home button of a Bravia remote worked, I could copy the Home command from my mother's Sony remote, and it wouldn't disable the access to the LG TV settings

 

Looks like I have some "work" to do.

[Quexex]

7 minutes ago, Pob said:

I don't know, I've not tried it. Is that what it does?

 

I was going to start a 'which new console is the best media player?' thread but I thought it'd be a bit boring. Maybe I should.

PS3

[teddymeow]

Just now, Quexex said:

PS3

 

Oh yeah it is!!

[Ry]

14 minutes ago, Cyhwuhx said:

4.1 is currently dirt cheap and runs bizarrely well on PS5. 5 is currently also on sale but quite a bit pricier. 

 

Thanks. 

 

I can see 5 is 23 quid at base. Might pick that up.

 

[Sarlaccfood]

2 hours ago, Reynard said:

Why are people using their superconsoles to watch TV? 

 

Is it just for the ease of going from gaming to watching telly and not having to switch something else on?

 

Or is there something that they're technically better at doing than a device such as a Fire TV Stick?

I use mine when it’s late and want to watch stuff with headphones on. 

[Ry]

3 minutes ago, Sarlaccfood said:

I use mine when it’s late and want to watch stuff with headphones on. 

 

Use my series X to watch downloaded films, amazon, Netflix, YouTube because its silent. 

 

My PS5 will only be used for games witj me wearing headphones. Because its not silent and drives my other half mental. 

[Sarlaccfood]

1 minute ago, Ry said:

 

Use my series X to watch downloaded films, amazon, Netflix, YouTube because its silent. 

 

My PS5 will only be used for games witj me wearing headphones. Because its not silent and drives my other half mental. 

Ah unlucky mate, mine’s silent as the night.

[Minion]

@Pob that’s weird about the lag on your XE, I had the XD and didn’t have any lag when using the inbuilt apps. It’s a shame as having to have a console on to use apps already installed on the tv sounds like a waste of energy and also potentially more problems such as the picture mode and what not. Have you looked into resolving this lag problem? Actually I remember I experienced it once with the XD almost a year into ownership, I changed the batteries in the remote and viola all sorted!

[Pob]

6 minutes ago, Minion said:

@Pob that’s weird about the lag on your XE, I had the XD and didn’t have any lag when using the inbuilt apps. It’s a shame as having to have a console on to use apps already installed on the tv sounds like a waste of energy and also potentially more problems such as the picture mode and what not. Have you looked into resolving this lag problem? Actually I remember I experienced it once with the XD almost a year into ownership, I changed the batteries in the remote and viola all sorted!

 

It's not as bad I was making out. In fact it's not input lag, it's how slow it performs tasks, like it's got a 386 processor or something. I hate pretty much everything about the Android TV UI and the massive Sony remote anyway, so I decided to take the hit to my carbon footprint and just use a console. In exchange I haven't flown for about six years.

[Reynard]

I just use a Fire TV Stick, but do see the reasons some of you opt for the console.

 

I personally haven't used a console for media since modded Xbox/PS3 days.  Must be a large difference in power consumption between the two.

[Ry]

11 minutes ago, Sarlaccfood said:

Ah unlucky mate, mine’s silent as the night.

 

2 of them with the same issue as well. 

 

Tempted to give it a good thwack to see if it fixes something. 

[Shimmyhill]

2 hours ago, Pob said:

 

It's not as bad I was making out. In fact it's not input lag, it's how slow it performs tasks, like it's got a 386 processor or something. I hate pretty much everything about the Android TV UI and the massive Sony remote anyway, so I decided to take the hit to my carbon footprint and just use a console. In exchange I haven't flown for about six years.

Consoles are terrible media players using waaaaay too much power and are you watching stuff in game mode or having to switch out modes each time? seems way more faff than just using a fire stick etc if your telly apps are poor.

[SteveH]

@Hanzo the RazorI saw you mention the charging docks in the stock thread (didn't want to ask there and bump the thread getting false hopes up!)

Are you after buying one? I have one here, unopened, which I can sell you. Unfortunately, if you aren't in Manchester I'd have to charge postage on top. 

[hereticboy]

17 hours ago, Shimmyhill said:

Consoles are terrible media players using waaaaay too much power and are you watching stuff in game mode or having to switch out modes each time? seems way more faff than just using a fire stick etc if your telly apps are poor.

 

Not to be some sort of ignorant dolt, but we watch stuff in game mode because we were flicking between game and movie mode not really knowing what game mode doesn't do as well. What do movie mode and the like actually bring to the table? All I've ever seen is people saying that game modes have worse visuals, but not going into details.

 

I promise I have eyes.

[Alex W.]

Basically it has to use a faster and lower quality version of the whole process from HDMI input to image, so everything in that process (adjusting the colour temperature, scaling the image, applying your contrast and brightness settings) is a bit shittier. That said, I watched several movies having forgotten I’d left the TV in game mode before I realised things didn’t quite look right.

[p1nseeker]

So if I watch a UHD blu-ray I should be adjusting my TV?

[Hanzo the Razor]

1 hour ago, SteveH said:

@Hanzo the RazorI saw you mention the charging docks in the stock thread (didn't want to ask there and bump the thread getting false hopes up!)

Are you after buying one? I have one here, unopened, which I can sell you. Unfortunately, if you aren't in Manchester I'd have to charge postage on top. 

 

Nah, your fine mate. I was just flagging it up in case anyone was after one. Cheers anyway!

[SteveH]

Just now, Hanzo the Razor said:

 

Nah, your fine mate. I was just flagging it up in case anyone was after one. Cheers anyway!

No problem  I thought I'd check before I return it to Argos before the weekend (bought for a couple of mates when my local had them in stock but circumstances stopped them collecting them and they sourced their own)

[Shimmyhill]

20 minutes ago, hereticboy said:

 

Not to be some sort of ignorant dolt, but we watch stuff in game mode because we were flicking between game and movie mode not really knowing what game mode doesn't do as well. What do movie mode and the like actually bring to the table? All I've ever seen is people saying that game modes have worse visuals, but not going into details.

 

I promise I have eyes.

 

10 minutes ago, p1nseeker said:

So if I watch a UHD blu-ray I should be adjusting my TV?

What @Alex W. said, game mode turns off all the processing and that’s good for games but it also means you get pretty crappy looking output compared to a properly tweaked setup for fils etc.

[Uncle Mike]

Presumably at some point (maybe when they get round to adding Variable Refresh Rate to it) they'll add the Auto Low Latency feature also and do away with people needing to think about it.

[Pob]

6 minutes ago, Shimmyhill said:

 

What @Alex W. said, game mode turns off all the processing and that’s good for games but it also means you get pretty crappy looking output compared to a properly tweaked setup for fils etc.

 

But wouldn't that mean fiddling with the TV settings no matter what device you use as a media player? Or are settings saved per-HDMI input these days?