Hi all, First post on this forum
Just to my tuppenceworth. I bought the SMP-N200 primarily to watch i-player and you tube. I've had the player for two weeks having followed all the onscreen instructions for set up, updating firmware etc etc. I have it connected to my router with a cat5 cable.
I've had no troubles at all untill last night. I used the i-player facility four or five times in the past week or so. Onto last night then, "let's watch last weeks masterchef" Nope, nothing doing. I can access i-player, scroll around the screen, change screens and select a program. I just cannot get that program to play, neither can I type in a program name in the search page (using the remote or andriod phone app with it's qwerty board). It's all fine on my laptop. I don't think I've had a frimware update since I performed the update on day one.
I had also hoped to be able to stream BBC radio programs, but Sony doesn't support Adobe Flash Player needed to stream radio. I live in a very poor reception area for radio and have a huge high gain antenna for TV.
I also think that the on-line side of things is very clunky, it takes an age to select a website, resize the page so you can see it from the sofa and navigate through the various pages on the sites. I wonder what in the box is different to a laptop in terms of functionality. Should Sony configure a remote mouse for this media streamer?
I saw the SMP-N200 as a great way for me to update my old telly, quite cheaply. But it hassome fundamental limitations. It does seem far from perfect, not something you'd expect from a leadiing electronics giant.
Regards
Roy
