It’s a given in today’s console market of high-production titles and powerful systems that we would want the best settings enabled on our systems right away, but there’s a TV setting that may have been holding your PS5 gaming experience back on default.

Even if you’ve had your PlayStation 5 for a number of years, you might not have even realised it since it’s incredibly easy to get accustomed to things with time. That seems to be the case of the below Redditer who posted a thread detailing on how they realised the PS5’s ‘Deep Color’ setting was stopping their TV from displaying 4K HDR, even though it should have been more than capable of doing so.

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.

A phone company has unveiled a futuristic new feature that could change the future of travel forever.

While smartphone translation isn’t a new function, one firm has made groundbreaking innovations into the technology that has the potential to break language barriers around the world.

Honor is a phone firm based in China that has created an AI ‘live translation’ that allows you to have a fluid conversation with someone speaking another language.

Live translation can be used using the new Honor Earbuds Open (Honor)

During this year’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, the phone company unveiled its new Honor Alpha Plan, which is a strategy to transform the firm into a global leading AI device ecosystem company.

In the announcement, Honor shared that it will ‘firmly embrace an open collaborative ecosystem in the AI era’.

And a particularly exciting feature to be revealed by Honor is its AI translation, which will enable its users to receive real-time translation whether that is through text or speech.

Incredibly, this also works when having a face-to-face conversation with someone speaking another language, with the feature able to translate the speech back to each person.

According to Honor, the AI system is capable of ‘understanding context, grammar and even cultural nuances over time’, which could make it a game changer for smartphone translation.

During MWC, Honor also introduced the new Earbuds Open, and just to make things even more futuristic, if you use the translation feature with the earbuds, you could have a fluid face-to-face conversation with someone even if you don’t speak the same language.

Honor introduced its new ‘Alpha Plan’ at this year’s MWC (UNILAD Tech)

But that’s not all, other features for the device were also displayed at the congress.

These include things like deepfake detection and AI upscaling of old images.

Deepfake detection

The Honor Magic 7 Pro smartphone comes with the ability to detect deepfakes in video, a feature that the firm has said will soon be available globally.

The AI deepfake detector has been trained through a ‘large dataset of videos and images related to online scams, enabling the AI to perform identification, screening, and comparison within three seconds’.

The feature is able to spot pixel level imperfections that are invisible to the human eye and will alert the user with a risk warning if it detects any synthetic or altered content.

AI Upscale

One particularly cool image edit feature is the AI Upscale, which allows users to upgrade old pictures to give it an enhanced and more defined quality.

With most people owning at least some old and inherited photographs that have become weathered and torn with time, this feature could help users create newer-looking images of loved ones from decades gone by.

You might think that getting a PlayStation 5 for just $1 is too good to be true, but one lucky buyer will be able to pick themselves up a rare edition thanks to a kind retailer – but you’ve only got 12 hours to throw your hat in the ring.

Having a PlayStation 5 can open up a whole new world of gaming for you, as you’ll be able to access almost all of the biggest titles releasing – including the highly anticipated launch of GTA 6 later this year.

You’ll be able to play all of the latest games with max performance on a PS5 Pro (Richard A. Brooks/AFP via Getty Images)

Unfortunately one of the biggest barriers of entry is the price, as you’ll have to drop hundreds of dollars to get your hands on a new console – and that doesn’t account for any games or accessories on top which might also be going up in price if industry analysts are to be believed.

There are sometimes competitions that you can enter to significantly cut down the cost though, and one recent raffle might just let you grab your own PS5 Pro for just $1. Make sure to be quick though, as you’ve got less than 12 hours to enter!

As reported by Comicbook.com, online retailer StockX is currently running a competition with a PlayStation 5 Pro as the prize – only it’s even more exciting than that. Not only are you getting the enhanced version of PlayStation‘s newest console, but it’s also the special ‘Anniversary’ colorway which only had 12,300 units produced worldwide.

This particular version left many fans frustrated as scalpers jacked the price up on secondhand marketplaces, with listings reaching upwards of $4,000 thanks to the artificial scarcity.

The Anniversary edition was incredibly popular within the fanbase, and only a limited number of units have been produced (Stanislav Kogiku/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

On top of this you’ll get an additional DualSense 5 controller (in the same colorway, of course), alongside an external disk drive for the console and a charging station for the controllers. Overall the retail price of the bundle is estimated to be around $1,000, meaning that you’d be paying 0.1% of the true price if you did manage to win.

All you need to do is bid $1 to enter yourself into the raffle, with the competition closing today, February 14, at 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT.

Of course, your chances of actually winning aren’t going to be great as many others will have the exact same idea, but you never know when lady luck might favor you and land you with the prize.

What’s more, there’s functionally no downsides for entering the competition as you’ll only be charged $1 if you win, so it’s a win win situation that you’d be silly to pass up.

Every time it releases a new iPhone, Apple also sends out a new version of iOS, its operating software, and the additions it makes can be a mixed bag.

Sometimes, it’ll make a change that people have been asking for over long years of waiting, but other times it’ll add something no one thought they needed.

Most recently, an addition that came with the arrival of iOS 17 has been a very unwelcome one – Screen Distance.

The addition of Screen Distance has divided iPhone users / Tim Robberts/Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto/Getty Images

This is a new feature aimed at helping people to maintain good practices with their phone, keeping it at arm’s length instead of staring at it from mere inches away.

The idea is pretty clear – it’s better for your eyes to read text at a little distance, rather than right up in front of your nose, so this setting lets your iPhone remind you of this fact if its depth sensor detects that you’re a little close to the screen.

The warning that it brings up, though, isn’t a little pop-up or a dialogue box, but rather a full-screen warning that you have to tap “Continue” on to dismiss.

Thankfully, it’s quite easy to turn it off entirely. All you have to do is follow these steps:

1. Open your Settings app
2. Tap on Screen Time
3. Tap on Screen Distance
4. Turn the setting on or off

A Reddit post this week has drawn attention to just how few fans this setting seems to have – it’s a simple screenshot of the warning screen.

The headline on the thread reads: ‘The most helpful and infuriating iOS feature‘.

Underneath that post, there are plenty of comments from people who find the setting annoying, including one who griped: “Arms length? That’s the distance I use my 24-inch monitor. No way I’m using my iPhone or iPad that far.”

Another user wrote: “I tried it for not even a few minutes and got fed up immediately. I’m getting older but I refuse to put my fonts the same size as my mother!”.

However, there is also a clear population in the comments thread who might not be defending the setting that much, but also think it’s a bit much to complain about it when it’s so easy to turn off.

Plus, there are others who argue that the annoying nature of the warning is what makes it effective, as one person said: “I turned it on too, and I hate it. It works perfectly. I just hate that I have the habit of holding it too close, but I know it is beneficial in the long run. It’s a great feature.”

So, as it turns out, there are some people using Screen Distance and finding it effective – perhaps some extra settings to edit how many times a day it can warn you would provide a helpful middle ground for those struggling to get on board.