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Keep SBS On Demand credits readable and stop the next episode

SBS documents separate controls for enlarging shrunken credits and disabling next-episode autoplay. The steps depend on the player.

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Identify which end screen appeared

SBS says a Try This Next recommendation card can shrink the credits to make space. That card can play the recommendation or add it to Favourites. The separate episode-autoplay system offers Keep Watching or Play the next episode and advances after ten seconds without input. Enlarging the picture now and changing future episode continuation therefore answer two different viewing needs.

Restore the credits on the current programme

On the website, click the credits; on iOS or Android, tap them. For the listed smart-TV, Android/Google TV, Foxtel, Hubbl and Fire TV Stick routes, SBS says Play is initially highlighted. Move right on the remote two or three times until the credits are highlighted with Keep Watching, then press OK. This restores the credits rather than selecting the recommendation.

Turn off continuation in the relevant player

The website provides an autoplay toggle in its settings. On the listed television platforms, open Settings from the bottom-left menu, find Video Player and turn Auto-play next episode off. Mobile and tablet players put Autoplay under the settings icon at the bottom of the player. Apple TV instead uses a swipe up and the settings icon above the timeline.

Use both controls when the goal requires them

If you want to read a film’s end titles, enlarge the credits while that recommendation card is visible. If you want an episode to remain the last in a session, change the autoplay setting as well. SBS’s instructions do not describe adding a recommendation to Favourites as either action. Choose the control for the actual end-screen behaviour rather than changing television zoom to compensate for the smaller video.

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