TV Apps on my Sony KD-49XF9005

[brsteve20]

Can someone please explain why I have to go through YouView for ITV and Channel 4 apps? I do not have an aerial attached as I used to have Virgin Media but have sent all the equipment back and now only interested in catch-up TV, so I cannot use YouView to tune in as I have seen elsewhere on here. Why can't they be downloaded from Play Store? Tried looking there and they are not available! This is ridiculous!! 😞

[Peter_S.]

Hi Steve,

You should be able to update YouView via Google PlayStore.

However, you need to be signed-in with your Google account to do so.

Cheers

Peter

[brsteve20]

Hi Peter,



Thanks for your reply but that is not the issue I am having. I cannot
understand why they have the ITV and Channel 4 apps but when you click on
them, it takes you into YouView and in order to use this app you need to
have cable or an aerial, and I have neither! It doesn't make sense and I am
not happy about it!



Thank you,

Bruce

[royabrown2]

@brsteve20 

Hoshsadiq is your friend....

[brsteve20]

Sorry, please explain. Thank you.

[royabrown2]

xxx

[royabrown2]

@brsteve20 

We have to be elliptical here:- 

https://github.com/hoshsadiq/bravia-youview-player-launchers

Nuff said?

Though you do still need to have tuned in the channels, maybe with a room aerial. But you don’t have to leave it connected after that initial tuning.

[brsteve20]

I really appreciate your help and thank you so much for the link. However, I do not have an aerial and my TV is fixed to the wall so I would need to do a lot of faffing about to try this! It would be much simpler if Sony gave us access to the apps! Channel 5 and BBC are accessible, so why not the others? It's just ridiculous! But thanks again for your help. Cheers 🙂

[pajo100 · Accepted solution]

Sony control what you can get on play store. Get the Itv hub and 4more apps and upload to TV by USB. 

[pajo100]

Anyone with a 2015 TV get the now tv app, I see it is on the 2018 model but not on earlier models which Sony have not updated as yet.