• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

SEENIT

TV, Film, Broadband, Pay-TV, Games, Computing and Tech | News, Comment & Reviews

  • NEWS
  • UPCOMING BLU-RAYS
  • ADVERTISE
  • Twitter

The frustrations of watching via 4oD

May 2, 2009 - Staff@seenituk

commentSomehow, despite the wonders of Freeview+, I managed to miss last week’s episode of The Inbetweeners, deservedly being hailed as one of the best UK sitcoms in years.

I wasn’t too put out as I’d read that 4oD, Channel 4’s catch up service had recently become Mac-friendly so on Friday I headed over to the site to watch the missed episode, I shouldn’t have bothered.

After viewing a couple of seconds of adverts I was greeted by a message telling me there’d been an error.  I waited to see if the video would restart and when it didn’t tried refreshing the browser, when that failed to achieve anything I closed my browser, navigated back to the episode, tried again only to find myself greeted by the same error message.

I tried with another web connection on my Windows XP netbook with even less success, this time – and despite having the latest version of Flash installed – I didn’t get the couple of seconds of ads my Mac had managed to play.

I’m resigned to having missed the episode and TV’s never important enough to get too worked up about but if, as we’re endlessly told, the future of TV really is on the web someone needs to spend a little more time on the usability and a little less on the hype.

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)

RECENT ARTICLES

BBC to merge news channels and move BBC Four online

Top Gun becomes oldest film to top the UK’s Official Film Chart

BBC Sounds now available on PlayStation 5

Green Lantern: Beware My Power is coming to Blu-ray in July

UPCOMING BLU-RAY RELEASES

Luis Buñuel’s The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie is coming to 4K UHD Blu-ray

Brian De Palma’s The Untouchables is coming to 4K UHD Blu-ray

Downton Abbey: A New Era now available to pre-order on Blu-ray and DVD

The Shaolin Plot to be released as part of the Eureka Classics range

POPULAR

Paramount+ gets confirmed UK launch date and pricing

Streaming sticks and Smart TVs will be forced to prominently display UK catch-up apps under new rules

Virgin Media unveils its new streaming TV service

Sky to offer its streaming puck as a standalone device

ADVERTISE ON SEENIT

We’re pleased to offer a number of advertising opportunities to high quality brands including sponsored content, competitions and advertising placements.

Please contact us for details.

 

TOPICS

Audio Blu-rays and DVD Cinema Gaming Guides Streaming Telecoms Telecoms Television

Copyright © 2022 · All Rights Reserved · Contact Us · Copyright · Terms of Use · Privacy Policy · StreamedTV.uk