NowTV Box(Roku LT) - £10.00 inc (€11.89) new model £14.99

upstairs for coffee · 20-01-2014 10:52pm

Can you download apps to the box?

Dozen Wicked Words · 20-01-2014 11:27pm

upstairs for coffee wrote: »

Can you download apps to the box?

Limited choice from a Roku shop, not netflix and you can't put private channels on it afaik.

upandcumming · 21-01-2014 2:54am

Dozen Wicked Words wrote: »

Limited choice from a Roku shop, not netflix and you can't put private channels on it afaik.

You can... just one at a time!

blue-army · 21-01-2014 5:12am

Anyone else having problems with 4od?

It streams new shows flawlessly, yet when I go to watch archived stuff like Father Ted/Skins is freezes or goes back to the start halfway through the show instead of playing the next set of ads.
Really annoying.

I thought it was to do with an unstable connection at first, but new shows definitely stream without any problems at all. Strange. :mad:

Big Nelly · 21-01-2014 9:34am

Can you put xbmx onto these boxes?

Alpha Dog 1 · 21-01-2014 9:44am

Does sky go and Netflix work with it?

moodrater · 23-01-2014 2:17pm

3 month movie passes now £8 on ebay so €3.30 a month - cheap as chips. Costs me more that that to drive to xtravision.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NOW-TV-Sky-Movies-3-Month-pass-worth-26-97-/161199281845?ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:3160

adox · 23-01-2014 4:32pm

moodrater wrote: »

3 month movie passes now £8 on ebay so €3.30 a month - cheap as chips. Costs me more that that to drive to xtravision.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NOW-TV-Sky-Movies-3-Month-pass-worth-26-97-/161199281845?ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:3160

Thanks just ordered and got email within a few minutes.

Does anyone know if you can stack these as in, I`m currently still on a free 30 day trial until next month. Can I add the code today and it will add on the three months at the end of the current trial or do I need to wait until near when the trial is up to get the extra 3 months on top of the trial?

beauf · 23-01-2014 8:36pm

Any see any vouchers for the entertainment side of it?

moodrater · 23-01-2014 9:35pm

adox wrote: »

Thanks just ordered and got email within a few minutes.

Does anyone know if you can stack these as in, I`m currently still on a free 30 day trial until next month. Can I add the code today and it will add on the three months at the end of the current trial or do I need to wait until near when the trial is up to get the extra 3 months on top of the trial?

I was told no, but that the codes are valid for 7 or 8 months.

gingernut79 · 23-01-2014 11:00pm

moodrater wrote: »

I was told no, but that the codes are valid for 7 or 8 months.

Just applied mine; looks like it stacked from my next renewal date (was only 5 days away anyway).

moodrater · 23-01-2014 11:12pm

gingernut79 wrote: »

Just applied mine; looks like it stacked from my next renewal date (was only 5 days away anyway).

were you on a special offer or a voucher, I was on special offer and it stacked with that, but the ebay guy said the vouchers wouldn't stack. I'd love to know where they're getting them.

jasonhn · 23-01-2014 11:44pm

do you need to switch DNS to use the sky passes?

adox · 24-01-2014 12:17am

moodrater wrote: »

were you on a special offer or a voucher, I was on special offer and it stacked with that, but the ebay guy said the vouchers wouldn't stack. I'd love to know where they're getting them.

Applied my eBay voucher tonight and it stacked ok. Has me covered til May 9th including my current trial so worked fine.

concubar · 24-01-2014 12:37am

hi,

just applied my purchased voucher, works fine:),

can I purchase another code and apply it when
the current one expires in 3 months ??

stuchyg · 26-01-2014 2:50pm

Just joined Now TV and got my months sky movies, how do I cancel so it doesnt charge the 9 quid, do I just cancel on the last day of my 30

tommyhamill14 · 26-01-2014 8:11pm

can I activate a now tv account in Ireland and can I pay in euro or sterling

DubDJ · 27-01-2014 12:30am

stuchyg wrote: »

Just joined Now TV and got my months sky movies, how do I cancel so it doesnt charge the 9 quid, do I just cancel on the last day of my 30

I don't know if it's the same for the trial but I was paying per month which is renewing in a few days (February 1st), but I was able to cancel about 2 weeks before my next charge date and it let me continue using the box until that date. The trial could be different though.

tommyhamill14 wrote: »

can I activate a now tv account in Ireland and can I pay in euro or sterling

Yes you can activate an account in Ireland no problem, I think it might charge your card the sterling amount which your bank will convert to euro for you. No entirely sure but the amount usually shows up in my account as euro with no sterling amount or conversion attached so can't be sure.

ChuckProphet · 27-01-2014 10:18am

stuchyg wrote: »

Just joined Now TV and got my months sky movies, how do I cancel so it doesnt charge the 9 quid, do I just cancel on the last day of my 30

you can cancel right up to the end of the 30 days....doesn't matter when u cancel, u still get the 30 days trial.

If you are willing to pay £6.99 a month (worked out €8.57) it will offer u this price for 3 months when you go to cancel. But seeing codes are available cheaper elsewhere!!

noodler · 27-01-2014 10:38am

Yeah, my free 30 days was due to expire today so I cancelled last night.

Movie chocie wasn't bad but the thing costs more than netflix, had less movies, no TV shows (unless you want to pay a seperate susbscription and even then it seems to be only catch up i.e. no good if you missed the first few seasons of GoT or TWD) and, possibly the biggest issue, the lack of HD.

I made all these points in the questionaire when I cancelled though

uck51js9zml2yt · 27-01-2014 12:25pm

I had to order a new box. my son lost the remote

beauf · 27-01-2014 12:32pm

I've stopped using the box, my wifi wasn't up to it. I'm using direct with a App on the TV. Works much better (for me).

moodrater · 27-01-2014 12:52pm

noodler wrote: »

Yeah, my free 30 days was due to expire today so I cancelled last night.

Movie chocie wasn't bad but the thing costs more than netflix, had less movies, no TV shows (unless you want to pay a seperate susbscription and even then it seems to be only catch up i.e. no good if you missed the first few seasons of GoT or TWD) and, possibly the biggest issue, the lack of HD.

I made all these points in the questionaire when I cancelled though

HD is an issue alright if you have the connection to support it. Nowtv is just over €3 per month with ebay vouchers for movies, I find netflix is mostly american dross, nowtv has more box office hits. Don't think anyone bar HBO is streaming GoT? In the time if would take me to watch a series I think it would be cheaper to just buy the box set.

moodrater · 27-01-2014 12:55pm

Gianluca Narrow Steel wrote: »

I had to order a new box. my son lost the remote

You can control it with android, iphone apps or in fact lots of devices like a kindle touch via http://remoku.tv/

beauf · 27-01-2014 1:01pm

Very few movies I want to to see on Netflix. NowTV Movie has much newer movies and they are very decent in 720p. If its something outstanding I'll wait for the BluRay. I thought from what I read that GoT was coming to NowTV. No sign of it yet. When did it air?

bren2001 · 27-01-2014 1:08pm

beauf wrote: »

Very few movies I want to to see on Netflix. NowTV Movie has much newer movies and they are very decent in 720p. If its something outstanding I'll wait for the BluRay. I thought from what I read that GoT was coming to NowTV. No sign of it yet. When did it air?

It aired last April. NowTV only gets short licenses for the boxsets to these shows. It was the reason I stopped using it. Can't watch a show over time.

GoT will be on the catch up service after it airs on Sky Atlantic this April.

27-01-2014 3:21pm

does anyone know of a way to stream websites to the now tv box. I tried playto lite but it only lets you use certain sources.... I want to stream flash video content to the box. any help appreciated. thanks.

noodler · 27-01-2014 4:38pm

moodrater wrote: »

HD is an issue alright if you have the connection to support it. Nowtv is just over €3 per month with ebay vouchers for movies, I find netflix is mostly american dross, nowtv has more box office hits. Don't think anyone bar HBO is streaming GoT? In the time if would take me to watch a series I think it would be cheaper to just buy the box set.

beauf wrote: »

Very few movies I want to to see on Netflix. NowTV Movie has much newer movies and they are very decent in 720p. If its something outstanding I'll wait for the BluRay. I thought from what I read that GoT was coming to NowTV. No sign of it yet. When did it air?

I have to say, just on this point, I gorged somewhat on the NOWTV movies during my trial on so-called blockbusters or movies I thought I wanted to see. Very few of them lived up to expectations, Argo and Lincoln were two that stood out.

Basically, box office and blockbuster just seems to matter a hell of a lot less to me these days. Just because I think I want to see a movie, or because I have heard of it rarely translate into 'great movie'.

This sounds like a Netflix defender portraying a negative of the service as a positive but there is far more variation.

beauf · 27-01-2014 5:10pm

noodler wrote: »

...This sounds like a Netflix defender portraying a negative of the service as a positive but there is far more variation.

If Netflix had a lot of great old movies, I might agree with you. But it doesn't. Lots of old movies, but not that many good ones.

I'd say once you've had NowTV a month or so, (depending how often you watch a movie) you probably exhausted it. You might want to subscribe every 6 months for a month or so.

Alpha Dog 1 · 27-01-2014 5:55pm

Just setting this up, can anyone recommend some of the apps?

NowTV Box(Roku LT) - £10.00 inc (€11.89) new model £14.99

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