Catch-Up becoming unusable

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Having just bought a new PVR to replace the old one which broke, I now find I'm having to separately register for each catch-up like iPlayer, itvHub and so on. It's aggravating enough to go through the rigmarole to register : you have to give intrusive information (I just lie and tell them rubbish - why on earth do they want to know my sex - what business is it of theirs?); I have to traipse upstairs and downstairs because the PVR doesn't receive emails (fancy that) and my PC is an immovable desktop. And with My4 at least, it seems you have to sign in every time you want to see something, fumbling with the remote to enter many characters which at my age and state of fingers is an unacceptable pain (literally). This is just too bad and is unacceptable. Having spent half an hour battling with registration to My4 to watch one programme we missed last night, I've given up and deleted the proto-account. Channel 4 can go hang. Anyone else finding these hurdles to viewing too high to be worthwhile?
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Really? Tell me how to access All4 on a brand-new LG TV. Answer: you can't.
That wasn't even true for me with my previous (Humax) PVR. I just kicked off the on-line service and watched. Except for itv hub which had withdrawn its support, for which I had to use the (Samsung) Smart TV.