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If you remember the PlayStation Network outage on 7 February, listen up. Millions of users were unable to access online services for 24 hours, affecting multiplayer servers, the PlayStation Store, and even some single-player games that require an internet connection.
As compensation, PlayStation extended PS Plus subscriptions by five days, but only for members. Non-PS Plus users, though impacted, didn’t receive compensation. If you’re a PS Plus member, check your settings under ‘Payment and Subscriptions’ to see if you got your five extra days.
Sony is still rolling out these extensions, so don’t worry if you haven’t received yours yet. You can also contact PlayStation support for updates.
Meanwhile, check out PS Plus March games, including Sonic Colors: Ultimate and Dragon Age: The Veilguard. If you’re a PS Plus Premium member, the Video Pass offers a range of movies.
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At the start of the above thread, Dipstickpattywack said: “Today I was looking at video settings and noticed I couldn’t have 2160p with HDR on because ‘my device didn’t support it’ even though my TV and HDMI cable do support 4K HDR.
Turns out my TV’s HDMI settings had the ‘deep color’ option disabled by default. I enabled the option and the difference is night and day”.
“Anyway, if you haven’t ever checked your video settings and have a big fancy 4k TV, you may wanna check your TV and PS5 settings to make sure you aren’t limiting your settings somehow.
I was fooled because it was capable of 1080p HDR with the default settings, which triggered my TV to show the HDR indicator as being on, so I just figured it was displaying 4k HD”, they added.
There were plenty of fellow Redditers who’ve realized they may have had the same issue and wanted to test it for themselves. One replied: “Ok now I’m worried I’ve been doing the same with my LG TV. ‘Deep color’ setting you say? I’ll check it”.
The PS5 consoles with DualSense controllers (Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Another user, michaelfortu, was apparently totally taken with by surprised when they tested the setting and reported: “Holy c**p, it’s like I overclocked my TV wtf. Thanks, bro!”.
Depending on your TV and HDMI cable used with the PS5, the particular “HDMI Enhanced/Deep Color” setting seems to alter your TV’s resolution in its aim to increase color depth and accuracy to create higher fidelity.
Like with Dipstickpattywack, TVs are still capable of running HDR at a 1080p resolution — even if doing so at 4K is by far the most common. If you’ve been using your PS5 on the same TV set for a number of years but feel like your display has been short on 4K, search for how to alter the “HDMI Enhanced/Deep Color” setting on your brand of TV and give it a try.
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