My new S580 plays iPlayer content very well when I can find it but there's a lot of frustration getting there becaused the interface doesn't work well with the remote control.
Starting at the home Highlights page I can move left and right with the arrow keys OK, so if the program I want is there I'm fine. But I can't move UP to get to the TV or Search tabs: the focus flickers up there briefly but then jumps back, or sometimes to a different point entirely; it will even select several things at once so that it becomes a game guessing what will happen if I press enter. Persevere long enough and it will eventually get there, but then the whole bizarre experience is repeated on the next tab: last time on TV I just couldn't get beyond BBC3! Right would move left, back to BBC2, the prize of BBC4 forever just out of reach.
I thought it might be something wrong with the remote but no, because it works for everything else, e.g. YouTube, and I tried the iPhone MediaRemote app and the behaviour was exactly the same. It looks to me as if either the iPlayer software is rubbish, or there's something wrong with the way the device maps the signals from the remote into the player commands.
Can anybody help?
RJD
