{"id":4005,"date":"2015-01-30T21:25:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T02:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.beniesbuilds.com\/benie\/games\/?p=4005"},"modified":"2015-01-30T21:25:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-31T02:25:54","slug":"playing-ps4-on-monitor-awesome-no-sound-the-fun-of-ps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2015\/01\/30\/playing-ps4-on-monitor-awesome-no-sound-the-fun-of-ps\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing PS4 on monitor?! AWESOME!! .. no sound :\/ \/ The fun of PS+"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been getting bored with my PS4 since my last game review. Maybe I’m just tired of waiting for next month to come. But to be honest, playing on the PS4 is a bit of an issue for me.
\nI am very lucky to have a 27″ HD HDMI-compatible TV. But with my poor vision (and the fact I refuse to go and get my eyes dilated by an eye specialist to wear glasses), I have to move my chair over just to see the screen.<\/p>\n

I’m watching a video from Dad3, of him playing Little Big Planet 3 for the first time. And I pick up my controller, acting like I’m playing the guy while he is, and wondering “Wow, this is fun!! I wish I could actually do this! Play PS4 games on my monitor” But alas, my monitors are ancient. I got them back in 2000, to replace my old CRT monitors. And back then, HDMI (or High Definition for that matter) didn’t even exist.<\/p>\n

Yet thankfully, I have a cable I got after I had bought my GPU to get my second monitor working again. It’s a DVI to HDMI converter cable. All I did was remove the one from the back of my PS4 and plug this one in from my computer, and I got the thing working! Was very happy, until I started moving around the menus…. no sound! D:<<\/p>\n

I remember my monitor having a port named 'AUDIO' on the back of it, and thought "Ahh, I'll just plug in my speakers!" So I did that… still no sound. Damnit.
\nI looked around. I posted on the PS forum. Waited a good four hours, only to see "You have to buy an HDMI-compatible monitor", and about how they don't support what I've done.<\/p>\n

So that sucks… but anyway, I did the second cheapest thing I could do. Which was to simply move my TV closer to my computer to where I could see it better. Yet when watching regular TV, I get headaches from it being too close. So I had to play with the distance for awhile until I got a right ratio of viewing and less headaches.<\/p>\n

To be honest, maybe it's best. By doing this setup, I have no second monitor for my computer, which would had sucked even more.<\/p>\n

.
\nI also got the 14-day free trial of Playstation Plus now. What enticed me is 'free games', including one that I've seen on Dad3's channel.
\nGetting it was a pain. I had to put in my debit card. Everytime I tried, it kept saying to "enter a valid<\/strong> credit card number”, and I’m all “What the hell?! This IS valid!”
\nI called PS’s support line. The guy who sort of sounded American, told me that I had to check with my bank, that the card must have a “Address Verification System” for it to work.
\nCalled the bank(had to go through their main system as my local branch was closed at the time). They didn’t know what the hell was going on; why was it saying my card’s number isn’t working and put me on hold.<\/p>\n

I looked at what I put on.. quadruple checking everything, then noticed I had the expiration date wrong by one month. I corrected the problem, then put the card number in one giant number and tried again…….. and it worked.
\nTwo minutes later, the person comes back on the phone. I … that was embarrassing, and I could even hear it in her tone as we were about to hang up the call. *facepalm* AGAIN… again human error caused it! Oy…<\/p>\n

Anyway, after wasting everyone’s time, I got the free trial started on my console (as I have tried to get a game on the PC version of the system, and it didn’t show up on the console until I did it through that), and was able to download the free games.
\nThere’s only two games. Not really winning me over here. The first one is ‘InFamous First Light'(which I assume is a prequel to InFamous Second Son(played by Dan and his father)), and I got ‘The Swapper’ (which is a game Dad3 played).<\/p>\n

Why only two games? Are these the only games available for the PS4? The free trial did mention it’s also for the PS3 and the PS Vita.
\nThough, I shouldn’t complain. I’m getting $30 worth in free games!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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