Does anyone use TV for internet purchases?

**SimonMac** · 9 July 2015, 15:06

Originally posted by xoggoth View Post

Brought a new internet enabled Sony TV and checked out my site on it.

My site was ok but when I clicked "Buy now with Paypal" the Paypal page came up with the entire payment form selected then after a few seconds it went to another blank Paypal page. Apparently Sony TVs use Opera but there's no problem with Paypal/Opera on my PC and can't find similar problems mentioned on net.

Just wondering if anyone uses their TV for purchases and had this problem. Cheers.

Does Paypal need flash/java etc that could be causing the problem?

Try another site with a "Buy now with Paypal" to see if the problem is with your site or PP in general from the TV

**xoggoth** · 9 July 2015, 15:35

But if it gets to the Paypal page ok not sure how the problem could be anything to do with my site. Have left Paypal page as standard apart from setting the logo and back/cancel links. Javascript is enabled.

Will try another Paypal page though. Why didn't I think of that? Doh! Cheers.

**unixman** · 9 July 2015, 15:43

Surfing the web on a TV is like eating flour.

**VectraMan** · 9 July 2015, 15:48

Opera were ditching their own rendering engine and jumping on the Webkit/Chromium bandwagon, so I wonder if what you have on your TV is based on the old system and what you have on the PC is the new one?

Or perhaps it's as stupid as Paypal looking at the browser string and thinking "WTF is a TV?" and redirecting you to a site compatible with Netscape Navigator 1.0.

**xoggoth** · 10 July 2015, 11:44

Cheers. Can't imagine most would bother with the hastle when they have a PC with keyboard. But one could make same point about purchasing on tablets and phones I suppose.

PS That reminds me, must check out my site on my old Psion 5.

Does anyone use TV for internet purchases?