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BDP-S570: is iplayer content "not currently available"?

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bl00ray
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October 2011
October 2011

BDP-S570: is iplayer content "not currently available"?

Since yesterday (26/10/11), or possibly a day or two before,  iplayer is fully browsable on my BDP-S570, but if I attempt to play any content I see "Unfortunately this programme is not currently available".

This is the case for TV and radio content.

Is anyone else affected?

My firmware is R787.

Dave

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bl00ray
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October 2011

Thanks for your input, Bravia55HX923.

On checking iPlayer on my PC, I was surprised to find that the BBC considered my IP address to be abroad, so the content was not available to me.  So I was getting a little more information than from the BDP-S570.

The BBC Has an article about it.  Essentially I'd recently swapped my modem/router, and as a result Virgin Media handed my new modem/router a new IP address.  And seemingly Virgin Media has not updated the BBC's database to indicate that this address, and presumably a range of others, is in the UK.

Anyway, the fix, thanks to a discussion with Virgin Media is to set the proxy server: I have to admit that I'd always left this blank, and connected direct.  So I went back into the net setup on the blu-ray player and set the proxy server and its port, as suggested by Virgin Media.

Browsing the available titles for iPlayer is now more sluggish, but I can now watch the content.

Still, it would be nice if I could bypass the proxy, and I'd have to wait for VM to talk to the BBC about those IPs, but for now I'm happy.

Dave

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Bravia55HX
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Hi,

i have exactly same player and same firmware and have no such issues.

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bl00ray
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Thanks for your input, Bravia55HX923.

On checking iPlayer on my PC, I was surprised to find that the BBC considered my IP address to be abroad, so the content was not available to me.  So I was getting a little more information than from the BDP-S570.

The BBC Has an article about it.  Essentially I'd recently swapped my modem/router, and as a result Virgin Media handed my new modem/router a new IP address.  And seemingly Virgin Media has not updated the BBC's database to indicate that this address, and presumably a range of others, is in the UK.

Anyway, the fix, thanks to a discussion with Virgin Media is to set the proxy server: I have to admit that I'd always left this blank, and connected direct.  So I went back into the net setup on the blu-ray player and set the proxy server and its port, as suggested by Virgin Media.

Browsing the available titles for iPlayer is now more sluggish, but I can now watch the content.

Still, it would be nice if I could bypass the proxy, and I'd have to wait for VM to talk to the BBC about those IPs, but for now I'm happy.

Dave

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KDL-CX520
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October 2011
October 2011

Great information bl00ray . Thanks for sharing

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Bravia55HX
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bl00ray,

great share of info there, i was surprised at that as i too am on Virgin Media and had my router set up by the engineer and nothing was said then about the proxy server and i have no reason to check that since everythings running fine, i apprieciate my last answer was blunt and to the point but at that stage i had nothing else to offer which naturally steered you elsewhere for the cause, anyway,  great share.

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