Smart TV

wumph

Why is ITVX not on a Smart TV streaming TV.  Also,  My5 and All4 seem to have disappeared. Have contacted Samsung.

Ayr_Rage

How old is your TV?

Maybe it no longer supports the latest versions of those apps.

DullGreyGuy

Smart TVs are not a smart idea in my mind, getting an external device like FireStick or AppleTV are much better. 

Often it's the case that the TV company has fundamentally changed the OS they use on newer TVs and so old TVs are dead ducks. App developers only want to support so many different OSs and you find apps stop working or disappear when they abandoned old TV OS. Technically it happens with all devices over a long enough timeline but whereas phones it can be a 6-10 year life before it happens with smart TVs it can be as little as 2 years.

mebu60

My 2015 Samsung doesn't support Discovery Plus. Also recently started having issues with Now tv (video freezing while audio continues). I have an Amazon FireStick running both through the same tv. 

Rodders53

Without exact model TV....probably now too old: 

ITV:
https://eu.community.samsung.com/t5/tv/itvhub-x-on-smart-tv/td-p/6682516

Channel 4:
https://eu.community.samsung.com/t5/tv/channel-4-streaming-app/td-p/9627670

Channel 5:
https://help.channel5.com/hc/en-gb/articles/17451843361821-The-My5-app-has-been-closed-on-Samsung-TV-s-from-2015-and-earlier

Chromecast TV or Fire TV stick or one of the other similar devices is the way to get them again.  More likely to be supported for longer, too.

All the above was readily found via a Google / Bing / other internet search engine.

wumph

Thank you all.  It seems that some of the channels are no longer on my Smart one,  I had done the restore (or whatever) so they did not come back.  Looked at Firesticks etc but got the Roku,  it was around £30 and does all I need,  easy set up too for an old lady. But thanks,  I thought I was getting senile.