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Rubbishy iPlayer app on Smart TV
CPU
26-01-2013
Just tried to use iPlayer via my Sony Bravia, and hit two problems.

First, there doesn't seem to be any way to quit it back to the main apps page. Surely I'm missing something here, that would be an unbelievable omission, but the option isn't anywhere I've looked. As it is, I needed to quit all the way out of the internet section back to the sony main menu.

Second, the search facility seems to be written in a nonstandard way, so that the remote control app on my android device can't be used to enter searches in free text, so I have to use the tiresome up/down/left/right/select method for each letter. In other apps, such as YouTube and Lovefilm, this works fine.

Maybe it'll improve over time, but it looks like iPlayer was a bit of an afterthought for this platform.
gomezz
26-01-2013
Yellow.
CPU
26-01-2013
Originally Posted by gomezz:
“Yellow.”

Eh?

If you mean the yellow button on the remote, it does nothing for me in iPlayer.
Stompa
28-01-2013
The absence of any sort of back button within iPlayer itself makes it an absolute pain to navigate.
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