We have BT Sport with our BT Broadband and last year watched Moto GP via the laptop. We now have a Smart tv, and assumed we'd be able to watch it on the tv without the laptop.

However, when we log on to BT Sport on the telly, it tells us we have to download something called Silverlight. When I try and download Silverlight, it takes me to another page where it asks me to download something called Mono. I can't get the Silverlight to download, as it just takes me to this "Mono" page.

When I try and download Mono, it then tells me the page is unavailable (not just today, I've tried 3 times).

I'm a bit disappointed, as I thought Mr Lakie was just being a bit dim (I'm the more techie one in this house, so you can imagine how un-techie he is) but I'm soon going to have to fess up that I can't do it either.

Any suggestions? The first race is on 29 March, and I'd rather like to watch it!

Smart TV sets are not smart enough to have anything but very basic browser capabilities. What you can do is connect the laptop to the TV and watch on the big screen that way. HDMI if your laptop has it or VGA (plus separate audio headphone connection) otherwise.

Silverlight is a Microsoft technology for computer based browsers. As far as I can tell it is only available for Windows and Apple OS-X.

And you have to remember that "Smart" TVs are not really that smart. It is extremely unlikely indeed that the browser in the TV has any method at all to download plug ins, even if any were available. It would be up to the manufacturer of the TV to include any features such as that in a firmware upgrade.

Thanks.

We thought we wouldn't have to do that any more, the picture quality is so poor it's barely watchable.

We get a lot of ghosting, and it often looks as though one bike has crept up behind another and is about to overtake! Most confusing when they're doing 180mph, especially as the commentary is even more rubbish and they're usually talking about something happening on another part of the track and not what is actually being broadcast.

That sounds more like a problem with your laptop. I can get a decent picture out of BT Sport on my laptop or tablet.

Or too slow broadband, especially if using a wireless connection instead of wired, which slows it down even more. O/P run a speed test from the laptop using http://www.speedtest.net/ and post the results here (or post the link to the results that it offers you).

People in town are always moaning about how slow the broadband is it's a frequent topic of discussion on the local forum. Some people blame the fact that we have the county council, ambulance trust and police headquarters in town and reckon they hog the bandwidth!

We're getting 2.36 download and 0.86 upload, I don't know if that's slow or not. I notice it's always slower in the evenings than the mornings, too.

Yes that's slow - probably too slow for acceptable catchup TV use, despite the BBC claiming iPlayer works on only 2Mb broadband

The speed is mainly affected by your distance from the exchange, and the quality of the wires that it comes down. Is fibre broadband available where you are?, depending where the box is it 'might' give you a huge increase, but if not 'huge' it should make catchup usable.

We're less than 1.5 miles from the exchange and would be able to see it from the front window if the Normans hadn't built a sodding great castle in the way. We have fibre, allegedly, but you have to pay extra for BT Infinity to use it, according to BT head office in Bangalore.

I'm still disgruntled by having to pay for something we used to watch for free on BBC (it's the only sport we watch), having to pay extra would really go against the grain.

I was told by BT that we'd get 6 Mbps, but that was when they were trying to sell it to me.

You'd do better getting your thread moved to here:
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/forum...ysprune=&f=260

Don't know if you have an Android phone that has screen mirroring or not, but I can screen mirror from the BT Sport App to the Smart Hub on my Samsung H6500 Blu-ray player flawlessly.