BBC iPlayer (V2) closing on some older TV devices – 29 Sept 2016

An early version of the iPlayer app (MHEG) on connected TV devices will be closing on 29 Sept 2016.
This version of iPlayer is on a very small number of TV’s and set-top boxes which are not able to use our current version of the TV app. This is mainly Freesat devices without the Freetime label, Sony 2010 (KDL-EX range) TVs and some older Freeview devices.

Why we’re closing this version of iPlayer

We invest significant time and effort in maximising support for older TV devices and have successfully migrated many hundreds of different devices to the latest version of iPlayer for TVs.

However, unfortunately, it isn’t always possible to migrate older devices to a supportable version of iPlayer. It’s not cost efficient to maintain the implementation of delivering iPlayer to these devices, due to the backend systems and technologies (often 3rd party) on which they depend.