Video & TV SideView: Remote
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entertainment | Free | Sony Video & Sound Products Inc. | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Use your iPhone to discover TV programs and control your TV remotely. Using the app you can use your iPhone just like a TV remote to directly control your Sony Bravia TV by simply swiping your screen.
Video & TV SideViews’s fantastic functionality enables users to browse content, as well as send and receive program recommendations based on your favourite shows!
Top picks can now be displayed in order of popularity and it’s possible to be notified of today’s recommended TV programs via push notification, meaning you’ll never miss any must-see TV again!
App speed and performance has also been improved making this is more effective Sony TV remote to date.
- Key features
1. Turn your smartphone and tablet into a quick remote controller
2. Discover other programs while watching TV with the TV Guide in your hand.
3. Easily find recommended and popular programs across TV programs and YouTube.
4. When connected to a compatible BRAVIA TV, the app can sense a Bluetooth signal from the BRAVIA TV when you arrive home and notifies you of the most popular programs currently broadcasting. (A TV software update is required)
5. Use the TV program guide widget to view all currently playing programmes
- Video & TV SideView official site
http://info.tvsideview.sony.net
- Help
http://info.tvsideview.sony.net/faq/
- Compatible device list
Sony TV Bravia
http://info.tvsideview.sony.net/device.html
Sony Blu-ray DiscTM / Sony DVD Player
http://info.tvsideview.sony.net/device.html
Sony Blu-ray DiscTM / Sony DVD Home Theatre System
http://info.tvsideview.sony.net/device.html
Sony Streaming Player / Sony Network Media Player
http://info.tvsideview.sony.net/device.html
- Additional information
1. “Video & TV SideView” will work only if your mobile device and your home device are connected to the same wireless network.
2. Some functions and services may not be supported by certain home devices.
3. Some functions and services may not be supported in certain regions/countries.
4. The seamless link to services such as YouTube etc., is subject to change or termination without notice.
Reviews
Good app but needs improvement
Digutalh8
The app works well in my iPhone X connected to a Sony bravia x900e. However, please add an option to default to a specific remote so that I don't have to click on the remote every time I want to use it. Make it remember my remote when I leave the app and get back to it. I will give it 5⭐️ once this is implemented. Thanks!
Great app actually works!
Chubb ok
This is the only remote app that works! Easy to use and is awesome!
Wish it would default to remote
IzzyIzzy03
I wish it would default to the remote instead. At least make it an option on what screen the app would default to. It’s inconvenient!
Simply doesn't work with KD-55X8066E
byzantinesfell
Cannot find my tv. Not even when I manually enter the IP. Are you kidding me?
Stopped working
sdreftcb
Was a good app and worked for a while, now won’t connect to my blu Ray any longer. Tried rebooting router, blu ray, removed and reinstalled app, tried to re-pair the blu day to the app, to no avail. Very disappointing
خوبه
آسد
برنامه خوبیه من از قسمت موس خیلی استفاده میکنم و فقط بدیش اینه که دیر کانکت میشه و وسطش یهو هنگ میکنه در کل خوبه
Broken and Useless
fivekan
Update 19: Crap Update 18: Still freezing. Enjoy your one star. Update 17: Still mostly freezing and unusable. Update 16: Same broken crap. Sony just do not care about this app or their paying customers. Update 15: Still the same broken useless freezing crap. Update 14: Still freezes. Enjoy your one star, dummies. Update 13: Loading DLNA shares still freezes the UI for multiple seconds because the "programmers" are doing networking on the main thread. Enjoy your one star, incompetent clowns. Update 12: Another version that hasn't fixed the hanging issue. Dreadful. Update 11: The app still hangs for 15 to 20 seconds when doing anything. Launch it, it hangs. Try to load the DLNA shares, it hangs. Try to list the files, it hangs. Another crap app by a crap company. 11 updates and they haven't fixed this issue. Obviously they couldn't give fly rat's behind about these reviews. I just hope someone deciding on buying a Sony product who comes across this review understands that buying it will be nothing but utter frustration and wasted time. Please do yourself a favor and buy something else. You'll be much happier. Sony does not care about their customers. They'll do anything to make a sell. Once you've purchased something, you're on your own. Update 10: Sure change the name of the app without actually fixing the locking and freezing issue. Lipstick on a pig. This is pure trash just like any other Sony product. Stay away from their hardware and this garbage they call software! Update 9: New design, same garbage, crap app that hangs all the time when trying to fetch DLNA shares. Can't expect much else from the king of incompetent consumer electronics: Sony. Shameful. Update 8: Still hanging and unusable. How many times does one have to say it? Garbage. Update 7: Another sh*t update to a sh*t product from Sony. The full incompetence of Sony on display. Shame. Update 6: This is still broken. The interface still locks up. Sony's incompetence at full display. Update 5: Sure update the app to make TV guide available in Ukraine but it's pointless because it is a useless hanging crap written by incompetent coders and released by a clueless company. How long and many times do we have to tell you people that the app is constantly hanging. You're doing networking in the main thread which blocks the UI. Pick up a book or just read the Apple documentation. Of course you're not intelligent enough to realize you're doing it so wrong. I can't expect more from Sony, honestly. They've proven time and time again that they're incompetent and clueless. Update 4: Yet another update that doesn't fix the hanging. Guys, read this: don't block the UI when performing network operations. That's not OK. Learn some programming and fix this! Stop relegating this stuff to the interns. Hire a proper programmer. Update 3: Five updates that were supposed to “improve the operation” of the app but not one has actually fixed the hanging issue. Here’s a hit: don’t use the UI thread to run background, networking code. That one’s free you incompetent dumbs. Update 2: Another useless update that does NOT fix any of the hanging issues. Looks like it was just updated to clear out the old unfavorable reviews. Shame. Update 1: The latest update was supposed to "improve the operation" of the app but instead has rendered it totally broken. The intermittent hanging and freezing issue of the past releases has now completely broken this app. Utterly useless. Sony are a hardware company and have no idea how, or the competence, to produce software, and this garbage is a clear example of that incompetence. This is the last Sony TV I'm ever buying. No wonder other companies are eating their lunch.
Consistently.... freezes and craps out
Speechless in DE
The app works for about 30 secs to control my blue ray player then freezes and craps out. I’d report it but the help is not help at all. You just go around in circles. Basically it just loops you over and over. I gave it 2 stars for the sole purpose that the remote looks exactly like the actual remote so I know it’s the right app.
Broken and Useless
fivekan
Update 17: Still mostly freezing and unusable. Update 16: Same broken crap. Sony just do not care about this app or their paying customers. Update 15: Still the same broken useless freezing crap. Update 14: Still freezes. Enjoy your one star, dummies. Update 13: Loading DLNA shares still freezes the UI for multiple seconds because the "programmers" are doing networking on the main thread. Enjoy your one star, incompetent clowns. Update 12: Another version that hasn't fixed the hanging issue. Dreadful. Update 11: The app still hangs for 15 to 20 seconds when doing anything. Launch it, it hangs. Try to load the DLNA shares, it hangs. Try to list the files, it hangs. Another crap app by a crap company. 11 updates and they haven't fixed this issue. Obviously they couldn't give fly rat's behind about these reviews. I just hope someone deciding on buying a Sony product who comes across this review understands that buying it will be nothing but utter frustration and wasted time. Please do yourself a favor and buy something else. You'll be much happier. Sony does not care about their customers. They'll do anything to make a sell. Once you've purchased something, you're on your own. Update 10: Sure change the name of the app without actually fixing the locking and freezing issue. Lipstick on a pig. This is pure trash just like any other Sony product. Stay away from their hardware and this garbage they call software! Update 9: New design, same garbage, crap app that hangs all the time when trying to fetch DLNA shares. Can't expect much else from the king of incompetent consumer electronics: Sony. Shameful. Update 8: Still hanging and unusable. How many times does one have to say it? Garbage. Update 7: Another sh*t update to a sh*t product from Sony. The full incompetence of Sony on display. Shame. Update 6: This is still broken. The interface still locks up. Sony's incompetence at full display. Update 5: Sure update the app to make TV guide available in Ukraine but it's pointless because it is a useless hanging crap written by incompetent coders and released by a clueless company. How long and many times do we have to tell you people that the app is constantly hanging. You're doing networking in the main thread which blocks the UI. Pick up a book or just read the Apple documentation. Of course you're not intelligent enough to realize you're doing it so wrong. I can't expect more from Sony, honestly. They've proven time and time again that they're incompetent and clueless. Update 4: Yet another update that doesn't fix the hanging. Guys, read this: don't block the UI when performing network operations. That's not OK. Learn some programming and fix this! Stop relegating this stuff to the interns. Hire a proper programmer. Update 3: Five updates that were supposed to “improve the operation” of the app but not one has actually fixed the hanging issue. Here’s a hit: don’t use the UI thread to run background, networking code. That one’s free you incompetent dumbs. Update 2: Another useless update that does NOT fix any of the hanging issues. Looks like it was just updated to clear out the old unfavorable reviews. Shame. Update 1: The latest update was supposed to "improve the operation" of the app but instead has rendered it totally broken. The intermittent hanging and freezing issue of the past releases has now completely broken this app. Utterly useless. Sony are a hardware company and have no idea how, or the competence, to produce software, and this garbage is a clear example of that incompetence. This is the last Sony TV I'm ever buying. No wonder other companies are eating their lunch.
