Netflix no longer working 24th july

[NRG]

Netflix has changed the way their interface works to improve their users experience. This will require changes to the application on our devices. I guess Apple and others no longer offer support for their older devices unlike say a Firestick that automatically updates.

I have an old 'dumb' Pioneer that works fine with a Firestick using WiFi.

if the change to their interface causes their users to no longer be able to view their service then how the heck can it improve the users ‘experience’. All the other services on Apple TV work fine. They are forcing you down another route.

 

[narabdela]

Is this a First World problem, or a Third World problem?

I'm confused.

 

[hifinutt]

defo a first world problem but throwing out perfectly good kit that will just get shipped to china to be destroyed defo affects the third world as well

 

[Bob McC]

There is no need to chuck out a tv that can be made completely up to date with the simple addition of an Amazon fire tv stick on the back.

 

[Darth Vader]

There is no need to chuck out a tv that can be made completely up to date with the simple addition of an Amazon fire tv stick on the back.

Exactly!

As I have mentioned my elderly 50" Pioneer plasma TV is years old and works very well indeed especially for live sport. I use a Firestick. My wife has an elderly but top notch Sony LED TV and that also uses a Firestick. Both work well over WiFi in this 3 floor detached house.

 

[garyi]

Just get an Apple TV or Nvidia shield, or what I have an amazon box. They will amaze you at how much faster they are than most any built in tv solution.

 

[gintonic]

defo a first world problem but throwing out perfectly good kit that will just get shipped to china to be destroyed defo affects the third world as well

why do you need to throw away the equipment?

 

[suzywong]

Bit like DV here, we have an 20+ year old 50” Pioneer plasma. Sure the tuner section is no good, but a forty quid Firestick via Ethernet does the buisness, enabling me to endure Ingerland at the Euros. Despite its age there is not one dead pixel…..the bloody thing will simply not die and give me an excuse to buy a shiny new 65” - so I could watch Ingerland at the Euros in even shinier glory….or perhaps Springwatch, or the latest Attenborough, or ….

 

[narabdela]

The Firestick message doesn’t seem to be getting through.

£35 will get any old TV with an HDMI port a new lease of life.

 

[davidsrsb]

defo a first world problem but throwing out perfectly good kit that will just get shipped to china to be destroyed defo affects the third world as well

A lot gets shipped illegally here to Malaysia, where mangroves or forest gets cleared to burn it and dump into a hole.
Dump it in the UK and don't burn all the fuel sending it round the world.

 

[davidsrsb]

Just get an Apple TV or Nvidia shield, or what I have an amazon box. They will amaze you at how much faster they are than most any built in tv solution.

I bought a Mi TV stick when Samsung did not update their built in App. It's very good.

 

[mikeyb]

They've got to have some way of making you upgrade your old tvs and spending your money.

Built in obsolesence makes for more profit.

 

[Sue Pertwee-Tyr]

The Firestick message doesn’t seem to be getting through.

£35 will get any old TV with an HDMI port a new lease of life.

The OP’s message that WiFi isn’t viable doesn’t seem to be getting through, either though.

 

[gavreid]

To be fair the Bravia's from 10-12 years ago were top quality after a few years of inferior products from Sony

 

[clivem2]

How about an Ethernet to WiFi device placed near the TV. It looks like this can do it.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-Support-Extender-UK-TL-WR902AC/dp/B01NAYG15H/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

 

[Darth Vader]

Better still https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01N1X28F1/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

 

[clivem2]

Better still https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01N1X28F1/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

Doesn’t the OP need WiFi because Netflix use the WiFi address to track legal usage? Does Ethernet to a Firestick use WiFi in the conversion process?

 

[garyi]

The three devices I mentioned all have Ethernet

 

[narabdela]

The OP’s message that WiFi isn’t viable doesn’t seem to be getting through, either though.

Plenty of inexpensive adapters available if required. Darth Vader's suggestion is one of the best, but there are even cheaper ones.

The core point here is that the scrapping of a working TV because of an easily overcome 'problem' is unnecessary.

 

[hifinutt]

why do you need to throw away the equipment?

Well you dont really but its a pain having to plug in yet another box which needs power just to get netflix on a tv not that old really