Re: Easily solved. (@ The Eee 701 Paddock)
"By early 2015, iPlayer and YT had both stopped working, thanks to the APIs they relied upon being phased out by the services in question. Now, the BR player lives on solely as a way to play BRs and DVDs, with all network-based video-streaming duties handled by a Roku device (Streaming Stick, at time of writing) plugged into HDMI on the TV."
My Samsung Blu-Ray player is a supposedly 'smart' device, offering such things as iPlayer, Netflix, and so on. I should imagine that it, too, is now much less 'smarter' than it was when I bought it.
However, it doesn't matter. There were no hard lessons for me to learn, because I never wanted to use it for those purposes anyway, so it doesn't get connected to the internet. (I did briefly, out of curiosity, but it's remained offline since).
And with that in mind, from the article:
'Another added: "Same issue here, how do we turn this off?"'
Disconnect it from the internet. Problem goes away as if by magic.