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Anyone using the Sony Media Remote app for iPhone?

coylemj · 2011-03-28 17:31:54

The app allows you to control a Sony Blu-Ray player from the iPhone/iTouch if the two devices are connected to the same home network. You can control the basic player functions and get info. on the movie you're watching on IMDB. I just bought a brand new Sony BDP-S480 Blu-Ray player, it's part of the 2011 range which has…

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#62 23-01-2012 06:54PM

Doraemon08

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I didn't get anything else I just got a refund. The reason this was such a big selling point was to make web browsing a little easier, you can turn the iPad screen into a track pad and you can click around with relative ease and searching for movies on Netflix is a breeze because you have a full keyboard.

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#63 23-01-2012 07:15PM

culabula

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Doraemon08 wrote: »

well arguably the item is defective. If you follow all the directions and and the trouble shooting options and it still fails to function as promised I think that is grounds for a return.

The problem lies with the ISP and/or the router, not Sony and their player. It worked perfectly for me in Belfast on my system (set up in seconds). I then took it to Dublin and tore my hair out trying to get it to work (UPC).

I might as well return my ATV because AirPlay won't work with my new TalkTalk UK fibre optic router -but it isn't Apple's fault -it's Huawei's.

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#64 26-01-2012 06:17PM

coylemj

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Finally got it to work.

Devices: UPC Cisco EPC2425 and iPod Touch 4th gen.

Solution: Switch off the firewall and IP Flood detection options on the Cisco router. You'll find them under Firewall/Options.

Source of the solution: user srsly78 on this thread in the Broadband forum...

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056526268

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