The “Skip Commercial” display always appears 1-2 minutes early for every program. And when the ad actually comes, the skip ad no longer appears. And if you click on the ad when it appears (too early, as I said), it doesn’t skip the entire ad. Is this a known issue?
I’ve only been using the app for two days, so I have the latest version. I use it on Google TV / Android TV on my Sony TV. App version 5.4.2.009. Subscription: blue TV air for 10.- / month
@Stueffel wrote:
The “Skip Commercial” display always appears 1-2 minutes early for every program. And when the ad actually comes, the skip ad no longer appears. And if you click on the ad when it appears (too early, as I said), it doesn’t skip the entire ad. Is this a known issue?
I’ve only been using the app for two days, so I have the latest version. I use it on Google TV / Android TV on my Sony TV. App version 5.4.2.009. Subscription: blue TV air for 10.- / month
Which TV channels does it affect?
@roku73 wrote:
@Stueffel wrote:
The “Skip Commercial” ad always appears 1-2 minutes early for every program. And when the ad actually comes, the skip ad no longer appears. And if you click on the ad when it appears (too early, as I said), it doesn’t skip the entire ad. Is this a known issue?
I’ve only been using the app for two days, so I have the latest version. I use it on Google TV / Android TV on my Sony TV. App version 5.4.2.009. Subscription: blue TV air for 10.- / month
Which TV channels does it affect?
So far I have noticed this with ProSieben and TLC.
I don’t know whether the blue TV app would run on the Sharp, but I would like to point out in this thread that the blue TV apps on all previously supported smart TV platforms really only represent a “shadow of themselves”.
In general, it is simply implemented too carelessly and not adapted enough to the remote controls of smart TVs and sometimes with worse picture and sound quality than is technically possible.
If you actually want to pay for and use a blue TV subscription, operating with a Swisscom TV-Box is still far superior to all other operating platforms and this will most likely remain that way, because precisely when the blue TV firmware is optimally coordinated with the Swisscom TV Boxing is where blue TV’s true strength lies.
In concrete terms, this means that the one-off CHF 98 for a Swisscom TV-Box is always worth it.
With the brand new small TV-Box 5 we would currently be very well positioned for the future.
However, if you don’t want to use any TV boxes at all for other reasons, I think it’s better to avoid blue TV altogether and pay more attention to the compatibility with Teleboy TV and Zattoo of the smart TV device.
By the way, you are usually best positioned with an LG or Samsung device in terms of app compatibility.
Hobby-Nerd ohne wirtschaftliche Abhängigkeiten zur Swisscom
@Werner Thank you for your detailed answer.
I agree with you 99% right, I should have asked more precisely.
Initial situation:
It’s about a holiday apartment where vacations are spent 8-10 times a weekend a year and 2-3 weeks at a time. There is internet in the holiday apartment, but not from Swisscom.
Television is watched via the Sunrise TV app (Sunrise Internet+TV subscription at the main place of residence; there with Sunrise TV Box), so it has to be a TV with Android (e.g. Sharp etc.) LG is omitted as there is no Sunrise TV app there; Samsung is eliminated because FB has no number keys.
blue TV is “only” used for sports, so not “normal” television.
And it shouldn’t be another box because the main user is > 80 years old…
Greetings Marcel
If the Sharp telly is based on Android TV, then the BlueTV app should be able to be installed and used normally from the Playstore. Of course there can be rare exceptions where it doesn’t work for some technical reason…
You will hardly find a user here who has exactly this usage scenario, because Sharp is a rare exotic product…
….keep on rockin'
The only thing that really helps is trying it out.
I myself wouldn’t make the choice of a TV set dependent on this pure “blue Sport capability”, because if a smart TV device itself can’t do it directly, there will always be an option with a small, separate player, such as a Chromecast Jump in with Google TV, a Fire Stick or even an Apple TV Box.
If an additional player is needed, you will probably have to ask yourself whether your mobile devices are more at home in the Android or Apple universe.
If you are traveling with iPhones and iPads, the additional integration with an Apple TV-Box is of course unbeatable, otherwise it would probably be something from the Google/Android environment.
Hobby-Nerd ohne wirtschaftliche Abhängigkeiten zur Swisscom
@Werner Unfortunately you really didn’t understand…
No, no additional box, neither Apple TV, nor Firestick etc.
My mother is over 80 years old.
She wants 1 TV with 1 remote control!!!!
That’s why all apps (Sunrise TV, blue TV Sport, Sky, SRF Play) have to run with the same remote control.
On the Nvidia Shield, various channels, if not all of them, are only shown in SD quality using the swisscom blue tv app. In other words, no HD or UHD quality.
Are there any signs that this will be fixed and broadcast on at least HD?
As an example, IPTV via the Nvidia Shield broadcasts programs in HD or even UHD.
So it can’t be the nvidia shield and must be the blue tv app.
is there anything about this?
I have the same problem as Dolce83
It’s not our fault, because for some channels FD works fine on my Nvidia box. There is always a message that the quality needs to be reduced, and I always have to acknowledge this message with OK. Really difficult. I also have an Apple TV box, this problem is not an issue there.
It would be nice if Swisscom would finally really upgrade the Android TV app and thus pay tribute to the world’s best-selling OS. Hope dies last.