BBC iPlayer, the movie and TV application available on basically everything, has been absent on PlayStation 5 this past year. Today, though, the corporation has finally brought the app to PS5.
It's now available for PS5 users to download via the Media screen. Just go into the All Apps section and look for BBC iPlayer among the rest. The download is only 30MB or so.
After logging into your account — or making a new one of course — you'll be able to watch all kinds of BBC programming via your PS5. That includes live TV as well as many box sets of classic drama series, comedies, documentaries, children's shows, and more. Some content will be available in 4K, such as David Attenborough's latest nature documentary, The Mating Game.
Will you be adding the iPlayer to your media library on PS5? Pay your licence fee in the comments section below.
[source bbc.co.uk]
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can we get 3D movie support 😭
@Victor_Meldrew Hopefully that'll re-emerge at some point. In any case, you must be excited that One Foot in the Grave is now available to PS5 users, Victor
Just as Dinner ladies goes all HD.
Would have been nice to have for this summer's sport coverage, but better late than never!
@Victor_Meldrew @Quintumply
I don't believe it!
Anyway, be good for the finale of Flux this Sunday.
I just use the new version of the 4K Apple TV. Even though I paid 3 grand for my tv the interface is sweet as and so quick plus it turns on instantly 👌
After (in my opinion) Chris Chibnall destroyed Doctor Who with his ridiculous storyline, terrible writing and cringy acting from Jodie Whittaker, coming from a fan that has watched every episode from the first in 1963, I told the BBC to shove their TV licence where the sun don't shine.
Good for people that still watch the BBC I suppose.
And nothing of worth was added.
Doesn’t everyone have this built into their TVs already?
@Medic_Alert The news are that xbox is outselling ps5 in the USA and are very close in Japan..The latest months were disappointing in Sony's headquarters. Christmas is coming with no big releases.
Im not living in NA or UK so Its not like I can use the BBC Player lol
Time to dust off the ol’ tv licenses
My disc drive doesn’t start spinning anymore when a disc is inserted and I start YouTube after this update.
A welcome improvement.
@kingbreww I'm on the previous version of apple 4k tv, it's unfortunately actually slower than the Apple TV app on ps5, is new new one better than the ps5 apple tv app?
Good news.
We haven't had a TV license for nigh on 10 years at this point so pointless for us, but it is about time.
ITV Player now please Sony
@Victor_Meldrew yeh it’s got a better, faster chip in it and a redesigned controller. Turns on and is ready to use in 6-7 seconds and when you click on a show it loads and plays in I’d say 2 seconds
@Victor_Meldrew make sure you’re using an ultra high speed hdmi cord (not a regular hdmi or a high speed hdmi, ultra high speed) if you’re not already
@GADG3Tx87 So you don’t watch any live TV at all in the UK due to Doctor Who? Is that not like a massive temper tantrum for no reason?
The nature docs available in UHD are absolutely stunning and well worth a watch.
Good stuff!
Probably also worth mentioning that the PS5 YouTube app now supports HDR, too. Really odd that it took this long.
Sweet. I use iPlayer once every two years to watch the England games in the World Cup/European Championships so I'll make use of this in one calendar year. Guess that's worth me tenner a month cheers BBC aka Dick Turpin's TV Streaming Service.
I don’t use my PS5 for media. My LG CX with WebOS is super fast and has everything I want to stream.
This means my PS5 is running less and I don’t drain my Dual Sense batteries for non gaming activities.
The demand for a PS5 just went up tenfold in the UK with this news!
Hopefully, Paramount+ gets on PS5 soon!!!
Finally! I've been waiting on this for ages (genuinely)
@GADG3Tx87 Dr Who has always been cringy, that's part of it's appeal I thought!
@MightyDemon82
The classic series (pre Chris Eccleston) was more Sci-fi than drama. The rebooted series is a bit cringy sure, but the Whittaker tenure takes it to a whole new level. I mean, calling her companions 'fam?' you're a two thousand year old alien, not a 16 year old millennial.
And I think the BBC are now using its popularity to push an agenda. In an interview with one of the actors the stated "Doctor Who has always been about tackling real world social issues".
Since when have flying police boxes, aliens obsessed with the genocide of all life and humans turning into metal men been 'real world issues?'
Does the PS5 iPlayer client support UHD playback? That could actually make it useful for ppl with 4k sets that the BBC doesn't support.
FWIW I'm another happy LG webOS user, so no need for it myself
@TheCollector316 All you need is plex (all together now)
@GADG3Tx87 Honestly there has always been a sub-text of real social commentary in Doctor Who. Like the Daleks who wanted total conformity to their ideals and the extermination of inferior races. Interstellar xenophobic genocide, they were the ultimate space Nazis!
Plenty of other anti-fascist and other socio-political commentary in ALL of Doctor Who right back to the beginning. EDIT: Everything from war and peace, genocide, environmentalism, nuclear war, racism, radiation sickness (during the cold war), capitalism & consumerism, big pharma, radicalisation and much more has been covered.
It has always been a part of what makes Doctor Who great, not shying away from commenting on bigger issues.
Perhaps you were too young to see it back then and, like me, just a grumpy old sod now
@themightyant
Well I'm 34 now and used to watch the original run on Saturday mornings on UK GOLD. There may have been an underlying, over exaggerated sense of social awareness but it just seems more apparent these days where everyone feels offended by something.
I mean, I just let them get on with it and stopped watching. I suppose I just miss simpler times, or maybe it's ignorance on my part. Like you said, 'grumpy old sod' lol.
I agree it is more apparent these days, but I don't think that's the show changing, but us. It's a part of getting older, it went over our heads 10-20+ years ago, the naivete of youth.
Talking of everyone feeling offended by something isn't that your stance for new Doctor Who? You don't like it, are offended and cancelled your license? Pot kettle. One grump to another
Has anyone else tried it yet? I went to watch Frankie Boyles New World Order this evening, and it kept falling back to SD and pausing to buffer. I switched to the built in Android TV app and it played fine. Maybe I just need to reboot the PlayStation, or there's an update waiting to download.
I know it's not the end of the world using the TV app, but for Prime Video, Netflix, All4 etc the PlayStation apps feel much more responsive (not to mention that my TV has All4 tied to YouView and I don't have a TV aerial, just a dish, so the YouView setup won't run), and it's much nicer to have everything running on one device, through one controller...
Edit: Both TV and PS5 are connected to the same network switch via Ethernet, and show similar speed tests of around 70Mbps
Where is the DLNA support???
Well, same problem tonight what the update, 1:35 in and out just freezes, and then continues to freeze every 20 seconds
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