Video & TV SideView: Remote Reviews

Stopped connecting to TV

alegoje1

Cannot connect network. Every single morning. Intrusive guide. Who cares for a guide? I just want to use the blessed remote. Channel line up request daily. What a joke of an app Sony. The programmer has no clue.

Broken and Useless

fivekan

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.

Another revision and still one HUGE flaw...

mrjohns2

I ask again - does anyone at Sony actually use this remote? Like at home? Like when watching TV? Why o why would you keep defaulting to the settings screen? Fix this. NOW! Let a person either choose their default or default to what you were in last.

Useless remote... Junky app!!!

Markarts

Hey Sony, go back to the original app this was because as it is now it does nothing the that the TV remote offers. By dropping the Program Guide functionality you destroyed what made this app useful. It also does not come up with the remote screen when used, you actually have to go find the remote under the menu and select it every single use... You guys trashed a great app. So sad!!!

Unbelievable

Toonad235

I've never seen an app crash completely removing features without adding a better feature. This app used to be good, now it is useless.

Works good !!

A really cool alarm clock user

I use this remote with my Sony blu ray player and it works really good !!! I think it's better then the remote it came with .

Useless

Uselesspeaceofsh*t

It's is so dumb it doesn't even work unless u have a tv with internet

Useless

ArsenB

After having removed the the program timetable it's just like having a second remote control! What's the point? PLEASE BRING BACK THE PROGRAM BROADCAST AND RECORD FEATURE!!!

Works great

Armandof8

So far so good! Works just as well as my remote w the added function of a trackpad.

Won't connect Blu-ray

1one80

The app worked great for about a day. Then it wouldn't connect my iPhone or my wife's android, to our Blu-ray player. I made sure the network matched both devices and Blu-ray. I tried set-up with IP address. Nothing worked. This is the second time we tried this app and both times we got the same result. The first time we tried the app was around January of 2016, only to have the same problem has occur in a year and a half.

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