@Gail2004
That’s a 2016 Sony TV, so a little more than six years old, and from the first full year Sony were using YouView.
It makes an excellent monitor, but without an aerial, you won’t be able to get these players to work, since in 2016, YouView required the TV channels to be tuned in before the broadcaster apps it supports would run.
So I could give you all the workarounds - keep an internal aerial to do a one-time tune, after which you can disconnect it until the next set of Freeview changes, or box reset needed, whichever is the sooner;
exit YouView (it can be done) and use the Hoshsadiq patch to sideload the apps, which otherwise will only work on the YouView ‘side’ - but still needs the aerial tuning done…..
But the apps won’t give you live TV, only catchup, and they will be dog slow, old, and limited 😢
So what you do is buy yourself a Roku device - a Roku Express 4K £40 or, if you can run to it, a Roku Streaming Stick £50 - avoiding the Roku Express HD, tempting at £30, but a much lesser device.
Amazon, Curry’s, Argos, Very, etc.
Plug it into an HDMI input on the TV, nothing more to spend unless you want to subscribe to one or more streaming services, but you will get the BBC iPlayer, itvX, Channel Four, My 5, all with the live channels as well as catchup. Plus a plethora of other apps if you want, far more than the Sony TV, with or without YouView, can offer.
And all bang up-to-date, kept up-to-date, and as fast as you could want, as it just uses the excellent screen smarts of the Sony TV, bypassing the aging 2016 hardware of the Sony that YouView has to rely on.
My favourite bedtime reading is a Sony product manual…
