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Past its core competency as a sport machine, the Sony PlayStation four can also be an awesome media participant — however not everybody in the home could take pleasure in fumbling with the PS4’s DualShock controller to navigate the Netflix menu or play a Blu-ray disc. 

That is the place the brand new Pdp Cloud Distant may turn out to be useful. The wi-fi distant pairs to the PS4 by way of Bluetooth and duplicates all the navigation buttons you will have to zip via navigation apps. However not like its PS4-only predecessor, the Cloud Distant additionally controls quantity, energy and enter toggling on most TVs by way of commonplace infrared instructions, too. 

The “cloud” moniker comes from the “downloadable Pdp Cloud Distant App” which PDP says will auto-detect your particular TV mannequin and map instructions accordingly. (Whether or not that app runs on the PS4 or a cellular gadget is not solely clear.)

The distant is blessed by Sony, which is throwing in a free 30-day trial for brand new customers of its PlayStation Vue streaming video service for good measure. 

The PDP Cloud Distant will be preordered now for $30, and it ships in September. (UK and Australian pricing and availability are unknown, however that worth interprets to about £24 and AU$42.) If you happen to want one thing that controls the PS4, TV and some different gadgets (like a cable field), PDP’s Common Media Distant continues to be accessible for a couple of bucks much less, albeit with out the nifty auto-programming function.