Millions of Samsung TV owners face block from watching ITV content – are you affected?

House owners of older Samsung TVs might quickly discover they should improve to one thing new in the event that they need to stick with it watching content material from ITV. The favored British broadcaster is about to make some main adjustments to its ITV Hub on-line streaming platform and older Samsung tellies look set to lose their compatibility with this service.

In keeping with an replace on ITV’s assist web page, any Samsung TV that was produced previous to 2015 will not have the ability to entry exhibits and films from ITV Hub after September 22. It is an enormous blow to homeowners of those TVs with ITV Hub at present providing hours of content material that may be seen at any time of the day or night time.

Samsung’s televisions will not be the one units being ditched from this on-line participant with some Freeview and Freesat set-top bins additionally shedding entry subsequent month.

Units from companies together with Hisense, Panasonic, TCL and Sharp are additionally on the record from ITV with Freeview saying that this upcoming incompatibility is because of ITV working to ship enhancements and upgrades to their app.

YOU CAN FIND THE FULL LIST OF BLOCKED FREEVIEW & FREESAT DEVICES CAN BE FOUND BELOW

If shedding ITV Hub wasn’t unhealthy sufficient, there’s extra information that might get homeowners of blocked units to improve to one thing new. The ITV Hub participant is about to get replaced and absolutely upgraded by a brand new service known as ITV X.

This new on-line platform is promising to ship much more exhibits and boxsets with some even being made obtainable lengthy earlier than they’re proven on terrestrial TV.

Together with that choice to view content material forward of its official launch, ITV can be boasting that its new participant will provide over double the quantity of content material at present obtainable by way of ITV Hub.

The truth is, while ITV Hub has 4,000 hours of content material the brand new ITVX platform is boasting that it’ll have round 11,000 hours extra.

ITVX might be completely free to look at by way of an ad-supported plan, however a paid-for bundle which bundles in BritBox will even be obtainable that removes adverts as nicely.

When you use Samsung TVs, Freeview or Freesat units then here is a full record of merchandise that may quickly be incompatible.

• Avtex – 2013+

• CVTE – 2016 – 2018

• Hisense – 2016

• Humax 4000t

• Humax 5000t

• Panasonic TV 2015 C vary fashions

• Panasonic TV 2016 D vary fashions

• Panasonic TV 2018 F HD vary fashions

• Sharp UMC 2017

• Sharp UMC 2018

• TCL 6586 (2018) 6 Collection

• Freesat G2 2012-2018 Humax

• Samsung All TVs previous to 2015