bobblehat
Standard Member
The widgets can be accessed via the Internet Widgets button on the remote, or the Network menu in the on-screen menu system.
The widgets are a (very small) subset of Yahoo! Widgets. You get Weather, Yahoo Finance, Facebook, Twitter, plus a few others.
In my opinion, it's a neat idea but sadly the implementation is woeful.
There are probably other things I could moan about, but can't think of them just now. Basically, it's a disaster just like all the other on-line features. The NX models should be called the Notwork range, rather than Network. It's real shame. You ain't missing out.
/rant
The widgets are a (very small) subset of Yahoo! Widgets. You get Weather, Yahoo Finance, Facebook, Twitter, plus a few others.
In my opinion, it's a neat idea but sadly the implementation is woeful.
- They're very slow.
- They take up far too much screen-space given the resolution of the TV.
- Unintuitive to customise.
- Inputting (alphanumeric) data takes forever, and the method varies depending on the widget. The remote has letters for each number key, like a mobile phone. The idea being that you can input data like texting. But Sony are way off the mark getting this right. It seems people at Sony R&D ave never sent texts with their phones. For example:
- Some widgets don't let you use the number buttons on the remote; you must scroll to each letter using an on-screen keyboard.
- There is no remote shortcut for <space> or <enter>.
- There is no remote shortcut to toggle through caps, lowercase, numbers, and symbols input-modes.
/rant