BBC iPlayer, 4OD et al in the living room

[bobthemonkey]

OK, what is the collective wisdom on getting On Demand services to the living room.

Personally, I use Boxee on my mac but it isn't exactly parent proof and this is for the folks.

I was thinking about the Boxee Box, but its not quite ready for prime time; equally a PS3 will be dismissed as a 'console'.

The leading choice is therefore one the current gen Sony Blu Ray players which support iPlayer and LoveFilm with the other services to come. I was tempted to get the new Humax HDR box (they already have a SD Humax) but iPlayer isn't live yet .

Is there another option that I'm missing? Do the Popcorn Hour or Roku fit the bill?

Forgot to say that Cable & Sky aren't viable option; if they were, then the new Tivo powered Virgin box would be on its way.

Edited by bobthemonkey on Tuesday 14th December 23:12

[forty-two]

Again it is a console but we only seem to use our Wii for iplayer these days. Things don't come much more simple than that to use but I don't know what other things you can get from it.

[bazh]

Apparantly ps3 will have a itv player and 4od aswell as the existing bbc iplayer soon.

[russ_a]

Virgin Media if you can get it.

[dumbfunk]

bazh said:

Apparantly ps3 will have a itv player and 4od aswell as the existing bbc iplayer soon.

The PS3 has this functionality *now* thanks to an auto update a couple of days ago.

[Bullett]

iplayer is working on my HD Foxsat.

How did you get 4od etc on the PS3? I have iplayer/lovefilm but as of last night not the other two.

[Alfa numeric]

dumbfunk said:

bazh said:

Apparantly ps3 will have a itv player and 4od aswell as the existing bbc iplayer soon.

The PS3 has this functionality *now* thanks to an auto update a couple of days ago.

Not yet it doesn't, at least the update that I performed last night didn't include it. I think they're due in the new year.

[khevolution]

i have 4od and itv player added to my playstation when i checked yesterday afternoon

[dumbfunk]

Me too - icons appeared last week.

[Martin Keene]

I was aware the latest Sony Blu Ray players supported iPlayer and Lovefilm, does anybody know if this extends to, or is planned to extend to 4OD, itv, etc?

[TEKNOPUG]

Martin Keene said:

I was aware the latest Sony Blu Ray players supported iPlayer and Lovefilm, does anybody know if this extends to, or is planned to extend to 4OD, itv, etc?

I would assume that it's Sony-wide as part of "Sony TV" - so if it works on the PS3 it should work on all Sony products. It's only a connection to a web service after all - hardware should just need an update.

[TEKNOPUG]

I expect though that Sony are keen to shift some PS3's for Xmas - so will probably be limited to them until the new year.

[OldSkoolRS]

TEKNOPUG said:

Martin Keene said:

I was aware the latest Sony Blu Ray players supported iPlayer and Lovefilm, does anybody know if this extends to, or is planned to extend to 4OD, itv, etc?

I would assume that it's Sony-wide as part of "Sony TV" - so if it works on the PS3 it should work on all Sony products. It's only a connection to a web service after all - hardware should just need an update.

Don't assume that if one Sony model does something, that another one will automatically be the same: The Sony internet TVs didn't get BBC iPlayer for quite a time after the BluRay players already had it for example.

I have the Humax HD Freeview PVR and I understand that the 'Portal' feature will be added just after Christmas (over the air) and if you don't mind downloading the firmware, you should be able to update it using a USB stick before Christmas.

Link to the Beta firmware page incase it's useful (this is where it will appear, currently still showing the last October update):

http://beta.humaxonline.co.uk/downloads

[TEKNOPUG]

OldSkoolRS said:

TEKNOPUG said:

Martin Keene said:

I was aware the latest Sony Blu Ray players supported iPlayer and Lovefilm, does anybody know if this extends to, or is planned to extend to 4OD, itv, etc?

I would assume that it's Sony-wide as part of "Sony TV" - so if it works on the PS3 it should work on all Sony products. It's only a connection to a web service after all - hardware should just need an update.

Don't assume that if one Sony model does something, that another one will automatically be the same: The Sony internet TVs didn't get BBC iPlayer for quite a time after the BluRay players already had it for example.

My point is though that they did, eventually.

[OldSkoolRS]

TEKNOPUG said:

My point is though that they did, eventually.

Fair enough, but with Sony I'd never bank on it. In fact I've broken my own rule on this by buying the Humax before they've done the update for the portal, but TBH I'm not that fussed if it doesn't work as I've got the Sony TV with it anyway (albeit in another room).