I player

[gemma10]

Not something I use very often, but it seems my Panasonic tv can no longer recieve the iplayer as it was removed for older tv`s.at the end of September. Is 5 years old? Anyway the freesat says chanel 901 is no longer available. Right o then, lets change the format via the freeview tuner, not an input I usually use, but where is the iplayer chanel. Not found, and nothing on a search tells me where I can find it. Seems now I can only watch the iplayer via the laptop and then HDMI it to the tv. Weird or what? Any ideas for a solution? :rolleyes:

[yellowtriumph]

When I go to channel 901 on my Humax Freesat receiver it says that:

'to use BBC iplayer on the Freesat system you need a connection of at least 1Mb and to connect the Freesat receiver to it'.

Going slightly further into the menu it then advises me to connect the ethernet connection on the back of the Freesat box to a port on my ethernet router.

I haven't tried going that far (as my Samsung telly still has access to iPlayer) - but maybe some help to you.

If not, can you Chromecast the BBCiplayer to your telly? Given of course that you will have to buy a Chromecast receiver for your telly but they are quite cheap.

[gemma10]

yt. Download speed isn`t an issue I have in excess of 20Mb, the problem is the tv can longer find the iplayer on either freesat or freeview, due to my tv being "too old". Do I need this Chromecast thingy then?

[yellowtriumph]

yt. Download speed isn`t an issue I have in excess of 20Mb, the problem is the tv can longer find the iplayer on either freesat or freeview, due to my tv being "too old". Do I need this Chromecast thingy then?
Im not sure I fully understand your post. You speak of freeview, then talk of freesat. i presume your telly has an internal freeview receiver (?) are you saying you have a separate freeview box as well, and a separate freesat receiver? Can you clarify exactly what you have?

[gemma10]

OK. Panasonic made tv`s with dual tuners, so I have a dish input and an antenna input.

[yellowtriumph]

Ok, as I understand it then your Panasonic telly has a built in freeview receiver and now it can no longer access iplayer. That's not actually uncommon as the BBC has updated its interfacing software a number of times over the years. It's up to the telly manufacturer to update their software to keep the facility and obviously Panasonic have decided its not worth the effort on your 'old' telly.

People also tend not to realise that when they buy a 'smart' telly (i.e. one connected to the internet) that they have to assure themselves that their telly will receive all the channels they need via the telly's internet connection. It is not uncommon (or certainly was not uncommon) for certain services to be licensed to one manufacturer only. I will give one example, when we bought our Samsung telly we did so knowing that it was the only telly around at the time that had channel 4's catchup service on it's 'smart' interface. No other telly gave that - 'yes' you could get a lot of other channels but not all of them as Channel 4 had not licenced its software to anyone else at that stage.

You say that iplayer has also disappeared from your freesat service. We use a separate Humax freesat box and hence my comments above on our installation.

Chromecast is a technology where whereby you connect a Chromecast wifi receiver to your telly via one of its HDMI inputs, it's looks a bit like a usb 'stick' and indeed with our Chromecast receiver there is also a flying lead on the 'stick' which you also have to connect into a usb port on the back of the telly as this is where it gets its power from. You then connect the 'stick' to your wifi router using the software supplied.

If I want to watch BTSports I cannot get it on my telly (freesat or freeview), neither is it available via the smart (internet) function on the telly as there is no suitable Samsung app. So, I open up BT sports app on my iPad, and open up and select the match I want to see. When I see the match (live on my iPad) I click on a 'cast' symbol on the top of the screen and the pictures and sound are then 'cast' to the telly - which you obviously switch to the pertinent hdmi input. Hey presto I am now watching the match on the telly. In reality I am not 'casting' anything from the iPad to the telly (its all done between the Chromecast unit plugged into the back of your telly and your wifi router) but in practice that's what it looks like to the user.

So, as well as having the Chromecast hardware you have to ensure any channel or material you want to see on your telly via the Chromecast app on your iPad/laptop can actually be 'cast' to your telly in the first place, for example, I believe youtube can be cast from a laptop to the Chromecast device. But can the BBC iplayer? Presently I am not at home and don't know the answer to that one. Some research on the www may tell you.

I believe the (similar) Amazon Firestick is a very similar device to Google's Chromecast and may also allow streaming (casting) of the BBC iplayer.

So, I suggest you have a search on the www and investigate to see what device will fit your telly and give you the additional channels you would like if that's a route you'd like to consider.

And yes, 5 years is old in telly terms I'm afraid.

[gemma10]

Cheers for that, got there in the end! I`ll follow your advice and invest in on of those Chrome gismos.

[yellowtriumph]

Cheers for that, got there in the end! I`ll follow your advice and invest in on of those Chrome gismos.
.... but make sure the channels you want to watch can be 'cast' from your laptop/apple device to the Chromecast device before you buy anything.

[MightyGem]

I`ll follow your advice and invest in on of those Chrome gismos.
Or one of these. It has all the CatchUp apps.

TV Box ? Best Media Streamer for Movies, TV & Sports (http://www.nowtv.com/box)

[NRU74]

Do any of you folks know a 'workaround' so that I can use Chromecast to 'cast' Filmon' from an Ipad to my TV when I'm out of the UK (it's easy with an Android device but I can't work out if there's a way without buying an Apple TV thingy).

[gemma10]

Well I went ahead and bought a Roku streaming device. Started to install said device and was confronted with "set up a pin and password". OK thats done now they want an account to be set up including credit/debit card details, name address and phone. What in hell am I getting into? All this before I can even watch the iplayer. Dont think this is good enough. In fact you should only have to do this if you want to stream something that has to be paid for. Very shoddy in my opinion. Device is going back