[ANN] get_iplayer search and PVR functions no longer work - no fix available

[Nick]

On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 17:19:19 +0000
Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer <jn.ml.gti.91 at wingsandbeaks.org.uk>
wrote:

> Does this mean that all the built-in iPlayer functionality on various
> manufacturers' TVs etc has just ceased to work?  If I'd bought such a
> TV I'd be feeling really annoyed at this point. 

I should think there are plenty of get_iplayer users who use it, and
other FOSS, because we have seen the kind of BS industry will pull.
Planned obsolescence is bad with physical goods, but software and
digital things are just out of hand!

Yeah, there'll be annoyed customers (um, consumers, gotta use the
dehumanising business jargon), but the lawyers will have covered things
in the walls of legalese - no guarantees on the "smart" bit of the TV.
But most customers will fall for the "upgrade" line likely coming back
if they do raise a complaint. They'll accept the unstated axiom that
the old machine was somehow genuinely unable to do certain things and
now a new one is necessary. They won't notice a complaint being changed
into a sales attempt (and I know I am not immune to applied-psychology!
My house is full of crap I didn't need, I was convinced I needed it
when at most it was drummed-up want).

Nick