The original PlayStation 3 Media Remote was a smash hit among movie loving gamers with an easy-to-navigate classic TV remote style. It could control your television, Sony audio system, or PS3, and it provided a simpler navigation for people who couldn’t wrap their heads around using the traditional DualShock 3. The PlayStation 4 Universal Media Remote takes everything good about the PlayStation 3 model, and blows it out of the water (in a good way).
Key Features:
Universal for Four Devices
The Universal Media Remote will live up to its name, providing an added bonus to the PlayStation 3 version. This new remote will control an entire home theatre: television, audio, cable box, and, of course, the PlayStation 4.
Bluetooth
No surprise here! It’s Sony and it’s PlayStation. Of course it’s going to have complete Bluetooth functionality.
“Dedicated” PS4 Buttons
The media remote for the PlayStation 3 included every button found on a DualShock 3 controller. Unfortunately, the R1, R2, L1, L2 buttons were widely considered useless because the remote also featured fast forward and rewind keys, defeating the purpose of the classic shoulder buttons.
When it came to PlayStation 4, Sony decided to do away with the shoulder keys and took a different route. Rather than including every button standardly found on a DualShock 4, the Universal Media Remote only includes the action buttons (Cross, Square, Circle, Triangle), as well as the Share, Options and PlayStation (or PS) buttons.
Don’t worry! Regular remote control keys are still featured on the UMR, including fast forward, rewind, play, pause, and stop. And here’s where things get…universal. The controller also features buttons labeled guide, page, info, top and pop-up menu, exit, return, and record.
Application Compatibility
From launch the UMR will be fully functional with many popular PlayStation 4 apps:
Blu-ray Disc Player Crunchyroll DIRECTV NFL Sunday Ticket FUNimation HBO GO Media Player NBA GAME TIME Netflix PlayStation Video PlayStation Vue Twitch YouTube
