topic Re: Sony BDP-S185 how to access certain features..... in Home Cinema, Projectors & Players

Sony BDP-S185 how to access certain features.....

Legal_Alien — Sat, 10 Aug 2013 18:43:04 GMT

Got a BDP-S185 and have tried without success to find out how to save things to the favourites bar and how to rate things I have watched on youtube with it. The manual does not say how to do this anywhere and when I have emailed Sony a number of times they haven't got back to me. When I try to save things or rate things it asked for a username and password!!!??? Who do I get the password and username off??? Can anyone help? Sony's aftercare service is not good quite frankly.

Re: Sony BDP-S185 how to access certain features.....

Mr_Onion — Sat, 10 Aug 2013 19:17:33 GMT

I assume that it means your You Tube username and password (the same one that you would use to rate the videos if you were using the PC)

Re: Sony BDP-S185 how to access certain features.....

Legal_Alien — Sat, 10 Aug 2013 23:28:11 GMT

Goodness gracious! Why didn't I think of that?! I'll give it a try and let you know mate. Cheers!

Re: Sony BDP-S185 how to access certain features.....

Legal_Alien — Sun, 11 Aug 2013 14:33:50 GMT

No. it didn't work, but I like your lateral thinking! I wrote to Sony and they seem baffled as well. The machine I have enables you to watch youtube stuff on the telly and the options button has the ability to save things to a favourites bar and the option to rate the vids you've watched. But goodness knows how you do it!? If Sony don't then who does?! Cheers anyway mate.

Re: Sony BDP-S185 how to access certain features.....

Mr_Onion — Sun, 11 Aug 2013 15:32:27 GMT

Oh, and I thought that would be the answer. Have you set a PIN on the S185? Any other access codes?

Other than that I am out of ideas, sorry.

Re: Sony BDP-S185 how to access certain features.....

Legal_Alien — Sun, 11 Aug 2013 21:09:32 GMT

For my part, your answer was excellent. I tried it and it didn't work as I said, and now I have got a username and will see if that works. If it doesn't, then I'm stumped to be honest. Got a pin and registered the machine too. I noticed that other people have rated things so understandably wanted to see if I could. But thanks for giving me some ideas, it is much appreciated mate!

All in all as well, it's very good too, I just wish Sony were a bit more on the ball but then they have so many products that it's perfect understandable that they can't know everything.

Re: Sony BDP-S185 how to access certain features.....

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 10:39:38 GMT

Hi there

Im unsure if you have managed to resolve your problem. Have you managed to log into the YouTube application?

Cheers

Re: Sony BDP-S185 how to access certain features.....

Legal_Alien — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 19:26:23 GMT

I haven't managed to suss it out, no. I tried my youtube username and password, that didn't work, I tried my username here and password and that didn't work and I then got a sony entertainment website username and tried that, and that didn't work!? So I'm a bit stumped hey? Can you explain if I am on the wrong track mate?! I did write to them and they mentioned something about what telly I had but I can't see how that is anything to do with it tbh?

Re: Sony BDP-S185 how to access certain features.....

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 19:47:23 GMT

To access your YouTube account via the application on the blu-ray player, you must login using your YouTube or Google accounts. Now my mum had problems logging into her YouTube account via her TV - It finally worked when I enabled Google+ services and having an activated YouTube channel (coincidence - no idea)

Leaving the Google+ aside. Im reasonably confident that if you set up a YouTube channel via their website - this should enable you to log on via your blu-ray player.

What error message are you getting? Can you please explain the process on how you are trying to log in, on a step-by-step (cook-book instructions) basis?

Re: Sony BDP-S185 how to access certain features.....

Legal_Alien — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 16:12:39 GMT

I did try to log in with my youtube account that didn't work and not sure if I have a Google account or if I have it's the same log in as the youtube one.

No wonder they couldn't help me! It'd be easier training to be an astronaut!!! I'm not sure how I would set up a youtube channel via the Sony website.

I logged on with youtube account, I logged on with the sony.co.uk account and with the sonyentertainment account, 3 separate accounts and none of them worked. It came back 'log in failed: please check your entries' Have no idea what that means. And the log in is required whenever you want to rate a video and whenever you want to save something to favourites.

Re: Sony BDP-S185 how to access certain features.....

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 19:27:27 GMT

I have done a bit more research on this, and believe we are on the right track about creating a YouTube Channel : Found this on the Sony Forums USA : Here

So. On a computer or laptop

Goto http://www.youtube.com and sign into YouTube, using your YouTube or Google username and password. If you do not have one, create one.
Once signed in, there is a little arrow pointing downwards at the top right-hand side of the screen, next to a silhouette of what looks like a persons head - click on that arrow and choose "My channel"
Follow the on-screen instructions on creating a YouTube Channel.
Once created, try signing into your account on the bluray player using your YouTube username and password.

Cheers

Re: Sony BDP-S185 how to access certain features.....

Legal_Alien — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 15:46:42 GMT

I'll give it a go and get back to you when I've tested it out; thanks for finding all that out. You must admit that it is rather convoluted hey?!