BFBS TV Player

Name: BFBS TV Player
Availability: InStock
Rating: 2.125 (291 reviews)
Author: BFBS Dev

BFBS Dev

2.1

291 reviews

50K+

Downloads

Teen

About this app

Provides BFBS TV services to members of the British Forces, including their dependents and other entitled users serving overseas.

BFBS TV Player a growing line up of 35+ UK TV channels with extra channels designed exclusively for the Forces. These are intended for viewers serving or posted outside of the UK and access is restricted within the UK.

To use the BFBS TV Player you must be a serving member of the UK Armed Forces and provide your Ministry of Defence email address to authenticate your log in. The App is not intended for unsupervised use by minors.

Overseas and only seeing 4 channels? Contact our Service Delivery team on service.delivery@bfbs.com or +44(0)2037504567.

Updated on

Nov 6, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.

No data shared with third parties

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This app may collect these data types

Personal info, App activity and 2 others

Data is encrypted in transit

You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

2.2

227 reviews

James Oakley

February 2, 2021

A handy app to have if you're in the forces however I don't use it all that often. Here's why: The amount of times the mobile app crashes is ridiculous, and usually at opportune times of programmes. Football, for example...the app crashes a lot whenever there's a major incident. I don't know whether the servers get overloaded but I feel the app requires far more support than it has currently and although the website I use on my laptop crashes too, it does so on a far fewer number of occasions.

7 people found this review helpful

BFBS Dev

February 3, 2021

Hi James, thanks for your feedback. We've recently made significant upgrades to stabilise the service. I would be really interested to hear any feedback or error reports. Please contact servicedesk@bfbs.com so we can resolve any future issues on your device. Thanks

ste m

November 26, 2021

Was a useful app but recent loss of casting for all TV (not just sort) renders the app pointless. This means a family overseas cannot watch shows together on a screen. We'd bought a Google cast specially to be able to watch together. We were advised to buy another device. Tbh we may as use a subscription service or have a vpn instead.

BFBS Dev

November 30, 2021

Hi Stephen, unfortunately casting functionality is limited under digital rights management. This copyright protection allows content to be viewed but not shared for risk of piracy. You can still watch our services on the big screen with the family by downloading our free app on Fire, Roku, Apple TV or Android info at https://www.bfbs.com/tv-player

Mark Caine

February 17, 2024

Works far better than the computer-based web-page which frequently has no connection due to 502 bad gateway. I use this app to watch all UK football, rugby and other sports as I am assigned overseas. If it crashes, it's usually due to a login failure which can be resolved by logging in to the Defence Gateway on the same device.

3 people found this review helpful