![]() Thankfully, the YouView firmware update integrates quite simply into Sony’s existing Android-dominated operating system. We’ll look at what this “wrapper” brings to the party shortly, but first let’s go over how you find YouView in Sony TVs’ menus. ![]() Happily, the addition of YouView to Sony’s TVs not only brings all the big four catch-up services onboard at last, but packages them in YouView’s brilliantly easy to use “wrapper”. While it now has the BBC iPlayer, the ITV Hub, All 4 and Demand 5 remain off the menu. In fact, Android TV didn’t have any of the big four UK catch-up services initially. As mentioned earlier, the reason behind YouView’s inclusion on Sony’s TVs is in response to a significant shortcoming of the Android TV platform that Sony has turned to for the majority of its smart TV features in 2015 the lack of support for many of the UK’s major catch-up TV services. It isn’t the most glamorous of designs, but the text is legible and the system makes extensive use of photo-quality content link icons to populate most of its menu screens – all of them bar the electronic programme guide screen, in fact. S far so good however when you try to access ITV catch up you get the following message Install adobe flash player. It uses the same colour scheme, logos and on the whole follows the same structure. ![]() ![]() Sony YouView – Design and Features Those who have previously used YouView in a set-top box context will immediately recognise the implementation of it on Sony’s TVs (I ran it on a ).
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