Philips Net TV and Adobe Flash

Danno

Hi folks,

Hopefully this is raised in the right sub-forum. When browsing general internet on Philips Net TV I cannot view flash content. Is there anything that can be done to allow it to be displayed? It would be really handy for the RTE live player.

Kind Regards,
Danno.

fafy

Just got a Philips Net Tv myself, you can't watch streaming TV websites, such as RTE Live player, BBC i-player etc. The reason is the program Flash and you can't download this program to the TV to the best of my knowledge.

I also got a Humax Foxsat freesat plus box, which(when installed) should give me BBC i-player through this box via an internet connection, details here
http://www.freesat.co.uk/index.php?page=iPlayer.WhatYouNeedProduct
and here:
http://www.freesat.co.uk/file_uploads/iPlayer-advance-user-guide-download.pdf
The RTE player is not available on this to my knowledge.

There is an informative Philips F.A.Q. here:
http://www.p4c.philips.com/cgi-bin/dcbint/cpindex.pl?scy=GB&slg=en&ctn=42PFL9664H/12&mid=Link_FAQs

There is of course the option of connecting your laptop, but thats not ideal, but certainly better than a 12 inch laptop screen.

The good news is that the Philips Net Tv feature allows one to go onto any website. The Sony Net Tv equivalent does not allow this, only certain websites only so it's a kind of a portal, but Sony did allow for watching BBC iplayer which was a clever move.

Internet on TV is relatively new, so improvements are likely in the future.