PlayStation Portal: How to Watch Movies & TV Shows While Playing Games

While using your PS5, you can’t really help but feel the need to do your business elsewhere in the middle of gaming. What that business may be is completely up to you, but clearly, you’re here because a simple pause button isn’t enough, and you want to watch a movie while in the middle of gaming.

Enter the PlayStation Portal, your console away from the console! Before your attention span gets the better of you, read the guide below and find out how you can watch a movie – or that new TV show your dreary officemates keep talking about!

All that while still being able to play your favorite video game, which is probably Roblox.

How to Watch Movies & TV Shows While Playing Games

Some of the apps on your PlayStation Portal simply refuse to work. These apps can either be Netflix or even Spotify.

You’ll get a notice saying that whatever you’re doing “Can’t be displayed on the connected console.”

What you can do, however, to start things is use the PlayStation button and go to Game Base.

Have some of your friends if you have any to send you a link going to YouTube. Yes, we’re doing things how you would do them ten years ago because they still work.

Since YouTube lets you stream movies and TV Shows on their platform (again, for a price), you can access the available media they have on the bottom left panel of their webpage.

You can search for the movie you want to watch using the search bar as well. Once you find what you want to watch, go to your options and choose “Pin to Side.”

This will move whatever media you’re watching, allowing you to game and be a cinephile simultaneously.

And that’s how easy it is to watch a movie or TV Show on your PlayStation Portal. Now, go and see how long you’ll last without skipping out on an ad!

Also, I’d like to give proper thanks to VVaby for showing us these super helpful tips!

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