PS3 to get ITV Player

[nstokes]

seems ps3 is to get the itv player on it soon.
ITV Player heading for the PS3

for all those behind a firewall:-

"It would appear that Sony and ITV are in the middle of negotiations which could see the ITV Player being added to the Playstation 3.

According to a report in the Telegraph, ITV is looking at several platforms, including the PS3.

However there are restrictions in place with other platforms, which makes the less restricted PS3 the games system of choice for the ITV Player.

This is where the BBC is able to capitalise on other platforms such as the Wii.

Nintendo will not allow advertising and so this will not suit the ITV Player is it is laden with advertising.

Even the Xbox 360 does not allow free content, so this means that both the BBC iPlayer and the ITV Player can forget the Xbox."

 

[cols]

Hope this happens - could do with 4oD too.

 

[DJSigma]

Can't you already watch it using the browser? I've never tried, so I'm just asking.

 

[tucka]

i don't really care much for itv player but would love for proper 4od functionality

 

[Darth_terra]

Can't you already watch it using the browser? I've never tried, so I'm just asking.

the site loads perfectly fine, it's when you try and play a program it says you dont have the rights to it, so it seems some kind of checking is going on that it's not able to do on the PS3.

 

[DJSigma]

Ah, right. Cheers. ITV must be deliberately blocking the PS3 browser for some reason then.

 

[Deleted member 92943]

cool. The more Apps we get for free the better

 

[Uridium]

Looks possible. ITV Player used to use MS Silverlight making it incompatible with the PS3 browser but they appear to use Adobe Flashplayer now....

 

[theshabster]

Sweet - This is good news if true.

Last time I checked ITV Player used Silverlight, & that wasn't all that long ago. Should defo be possible if they now use Flash as that's an Adobe product rather than a Microsoft one

 

[RevanClaw]

Could do with 5 OD also, get some gadget show on the go!!!

 

[Uridium]

Could do with 5 OD also, get some gadget show on the go!!!

5OD uses Flash Player as well so perfectly feasable

 

[figoagogo]

iPlayer gets used loads on my PS3, infact its a long time since I played games, its use for Streaming music/movies/photos, DVD, BR etc.

To be honest I can live with out ITV, but it would be a nice extra along with 4OD and 5.

 

[stormy]

4oD would be much more welcome....

 

[theshabster]

5OD works fine on my PS3 - I use it weekly to watch Home & Away with the missus

The only thing 5OD struggles with is when something requires age verification, but with that as an exception everything else works OK:

Demand Five | watch television on demand - Channel 5 TV

 

[stormy]

5OD works fine on my PS3 - I use it weekly to watch Home & Away with the missus

The only thing 5OD struggles with is when something requires age verification, but with that as an exception everything else works OK:

Demand Five | watch television on demand - Channel 5 TV

They should add icon's for all the on catchup TV services.

 

[figoagogo]

They should add icon's for all the on catchup TV services.

Agreed, makes it more user friendly, shame all the channels are not on one "iplayer" really.

 

[PaulC2K]

I cant even use the iPlayer app, its completely unresponsive once the programmes page loads, say Top Gear, it just sits there at the episode details page and nothing is clickable to fire it up.

Never found a way to uninstall it to try and reinstall it, or any other kind of fix, so while its a good move for the PS3 in general... i'd hope this one actually works for me.

 

[Jamie]

The iPlayer app is actually just a web link and opens the browser. Even if you could uninstall it I don't think this would make a difference.

 

[figoagogo]

I cant even use the iPlayer app, its completely unresponsive once the programmes page loads, say Top Gear, it just sits there at the episode details page and nothing is clickable to fire it up.

Never found a way to uninstall it to try and reinstall it, or any other kind of fix, so while its a good move for the PS3 in general... i'd hope this one actually works for me.

Does iplayer work on other devices (PC? etc)

 

[PaulC2K]

The iPlayer app is actually just a web link and opens the browser. Even if you could uninstall it I don't think this would make a difference.

Yeah, im being stupid and not thinking

Does iplayer work on other devices (PC? etc)

Yeah, sure does. Even my mobile phone is capable of letting me watch stuff.


After a load of messing, some screenshots of a site which is missing loads of content i can see on the PC at the same URL, i figured it had to be something not right, checked the browser settings and somehow javascript was disabled, after reloading everything its all fully functional.

Only taken me 18 months to get it working (released Dec 08) so not bad at all that!
Maybe i was messing with settings to improve how content was displayed as i remember some sites i used looked terrible in the early days of the browser.

Thanks for your help though guys, for some reason i'd always assumed it was just faulty or the app was screwed an rarely tried it again. It always showed the URL like the browser, so that told me it wasnt a special app, just never knew the reason. Now JS is running its fullscreen without the url bar


Now im even more excited about the prospect of ITV Player, roll on 4OD & 5OD then!

 

[figoagogo]

Only taken me 18 months to get it working (released Dec 08) so not bad at all that!

glad its going now!

 

[TazMonster]

Hope this happens - could do with 4oD too.

4oD would be great for catching up with Big Brother!

 

[Citizen J]

Can't say I am excited by this. ITV player is utter rubbish.

 

[humanfish]

ITV is utter rubbish. I wouldn't even notice if they went bankrupt and off air

 

[figoagogo]

ITV is utter rubbish. I wouldn't even notice if they went bankrupt and off air

That is true.

Anyone watched the world cup matches on ITV, the standard def quality is utter garbage