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Millem

Apologies if this is not allowed to be discussed.

I noticed on the Currys Irish site they are selling NOWTV . It seems like a good alternative for us to Netflix. I will pay for the monthly passes.
http://www.currys.ie/Product/now-tv-box-with-3-month-entertainment-pass/334977/397.3.1

Does anyone know if it works in Ireland? If so do you just simply plug it in?
Thanks a million.

icdg

It's an odd one, it works in Ireland and is not geoblocked (or rather the geoblocking applied is ROI friendly) but Sky do not market it here and have been known to cancel accounts where it becomes aware the account holder is ROI based.

Interestingly Ireland is the only one of Sky's five markets where a service along the lines of Now TV is not offered.

Millem

Thank you for your reply.
The weird thing is, amazon ship here no problem unlike the fire stick!
If I order now tv do I just plug it and register? I don't have a satellite dish or an aerial.

Kristopherus

Millem wrote: »

Thank you for your reply.
The weird thing is, amazon ship here no problem unlike the fire stick!
If I order now tv do I just plug it and register? I don't have a satellite dish or an aerial.

The best way of keeping Sky from bothering you is to register with a UK address. There's no way of avoiding the registration as its part of the setup process. If buying, I'd advise buying from Amazon as you can buy it with a package, either Entertainment or Movies. A Sports package is expensive. I won a 1-day Sports Pass last July and activated last Monday. To be honest, the quality of their stream was a disappointment. Have seen better from illegal streams.

If you do buy it with a package, make sure you avail of the free 14-day pass the have with the Entertainment & Movies, before activating the pass that comes with the box.

Millem

Kristopherus wrote: »

The best way of keeping Sky from bothering you is to register with a UK address. There's no way of avoiding the registration as its part of the setup process. If buying, I'd advise buying from Amazon as you can buy it with a package, either Entertainment or Movies. A Sports package is expensive. I won a 1-day Sports Pass last July and activated last Monday. To be honest, the quality of their stream was a disappointment. Have seen better from illegal streams.

If you do buy it with a package, make sure you avail of the free 14-day pass the have with the Entertainment & Movies, before activating the pass that comes with the box.

Thanks a million. I want it really for kids things. Is it instant like netflix? Or does it take ages like finding a stream on firestick through kodi?

coylemj

Kristopherus wrote: »

The best way of keeping Sky from bothering you is to register with a UK address.

No, you need to pay Now using a UK credit card. Otherwise, it's not Sky that will bother you, Now will close your account and give you a refund i.e. a polite PFO. The first few digits (I think it's 6) of your credit card tells anyone who wants to know the name of the bank who issued the credit card and Now will cancel your account once they figure out that you are based on the ROI regardless of what address you claim to live at - UK or ROI. That's what happened me last year when I registered with a UK address (but paid with my Irish credit card) to watch the US Open golf, they closed my account by Saturday.

Argos Ireland offered the Now box about a year ago, clearly they didn't know that Now doesn't want business from anyone in the ROI and you'd have to suspect that they had to take the boxes back and give refunds after people here had their accounts closed after a couple of days.

My guess is that Virgin Media have an exclusive agreement with Sky which states that VM is the only company in the ROI who can offer non-satellite (i.e. cable or internet) access to Sky Sports. In turn, this means that the agreement between Sky and Now in the UK precludes Now from taking any business from customers in the ROI.

colm_mcm

Don't eir and Vodafone offer sky sports too?

coylemj

colm_mcm wrote: »

Don't eir and Vodafone offer sky sports too?

Of course, you're correct. For whatever reasons, Now TV doesn't want any business in the ROI. If I'm wrong I will be delighted, please feel free to correct me on that one.

Last year I had to create an Apple userid with a UK address to even get Now TV on my Apple TV.

Who can sign up to NOW TV?

Anyone aged 18 or over living in the UK (including the Isle of Man and Channel Islands) can sign up to use NOW TV.

https://watch.nowtv.com/terms

Millem

coylemj wrote: »

No, you need to pay Now using a UK credit card. Otherwise, it's not Sky that will bother you, Now will close your account and give you a refund i.e. a polite PFO. The first few digits (I think it's 6) of your credit card tells anyone who wants to know the name of the bank who issued the credit card and Now will cancel your account once they figure out that you are based on the ROI regardless of what address you claim to live at - UK or ROI. That's what happened me last year when I registered with a UK address (but paid with my Irish credit card) to watch the US Open golf, they closed my account by Saturday.

Argos Ireland offered the Now box about a year ago, clearly they didn't know that Now doesn't want business from anyone in the ROI and you'd have to suspect that they had to take the boxes back and give refunds after people here had their accounts closed after a couple of days.

My guess is that Virgin Media have an exclusive agreement with Sky which states that VM is the only company in the ROI who can offer non-satellite (i.e. cable or internet) access to Sky Sports. In turn, this means that the agreement between Sky and Now in the UK precludes Now from taking any business from customers in the ROI.

Thanks for all that info. My credit card is tesco bank. Would that be a uk card or Irish card?

coylemj

Millem wrote: »

Thanks for all that info. My credit card is tesco bank. Would that be a uk card or Irish card?

Is the address on the account in the UK or ROI and what currency is the card denominated in - GBP or EUR?

icdg

coylemj wrote: »

My guess is that Virgin Media have an exclusive agreement with Sky which states that VM is the only company in the ROI who can offer non-satellite (i.e. cable or internet) access to Sky Sports. In turn, this means that the agreement between Sky and Now in the UK precludes Now from taking any business from customers in the ROI.

No.

Firstly, Eir and Vodafone both offer Sky Sports. No such exclusive agreement exists and in any case why would Sky sign an agreement limiting their ability to market their own channels.

Secondly, Now TV is Sky. It's not a separate entity. A seperate platform sure, but the same company.

My own view is that Sky believes the penetration of the pay-TV market in Ireland is such that there's no need to offer a PAYG platform like Now TV. Compare with all of Sky's other markets where FTA is the main way of TV delivery.

gerrybbadd

coylemj wrote: »

No, you need to pay Now using a UK credit card. Otherwise, it's not Sky that will bother you, Now will close your account and give you a refund i.e. a polite PFO. The first few digits (I think it's 6) of your credit card tells anyone who wants to know the name of the bank who issued the credit card and Now will cancel your account once they figure out that you are based on the ROI regardless of what address you claim to live at - UK or ROI. That's what happened me last year when I registered with a UK address (but paid with my Irish credit card) to watch the US Open golf, they closed my account by Saturday.

Argos Ireland offered the Now box about a year ago, clearly they didn't know that Now doesn't want business from anyone in the ROI and you'd have to suspect that they had to take the boxes back and give refunds after people here had their accounts closed after a couple of days.

My guess is that Virgin Media have an exclusive agreement with Sky which states that VM is the only company in the ROI who can offer non-satellite (i.e. cable or internet) access to Sky Sports. In turn, this means that the agreement between Sky and Now in the UK precludes Now from taking any business from customers in the ROI.

Been using it well over 12 mths with an Irish card. No problems whatsoever

Kristopherus

gerrybbadd wrote: »

Been using it well over 12 mths with an Irish card. No problems whatsoever

Same here. And I & family have Nowtv boxes set up with Irish credit cards.

Nonoperational

Really not quite sure why people post "advice" as if its fact which is complete nonsense.

coylemj

Nonoperational wrote: »

Really not quite sure why people post "advice" as if its fact which is complete nonsense.

I understand your point but I registered with an Irish credit card, they took my money and I was able to access Sky Sports for two days, then they cancelled my account with no explanation and refunded my money.

Argos briefly sold the Now box here then withdrew it.

And the Now TV website says you have to reside in the UK. See post #8 above.

gingernut79

Never had a problem using it here either.

Nonoperational

coylemj wrote: »

I understand your point but I registered with an Irish credit card, they took my money and I was able to access Sky Sports for two days, then they cancelled my account with no explanation and refunded my money.

Argos briefly sold the Now box here then withdrew it.

And the Now TV website says you have to reside in the UK. See post #8 above.

Fair enough. My apologies.

Kristopherus

coylemj wrote: »

I understand your point but I registered with an Irish credit card, they took my money and I was able to access Sky Sports for two days, then they cancelled my account with no explanation and refunded my money.

Argos briefly sold the Now box here then withdrew it.

And the Now TV website says you have to reside in the UK. See post #8 above.

Did you register with a UK address?

Millem

coylemj wrote: »

Is the address on the account in the UK or ROI and what currency is the card denominated in - GBP or EUR?

My credit card is registered to an Irish address. When I pay though i get put through to Scotland do thought it might work!!!

coylemj

Kristopherus wrote: »

Did you register with a UK address?

Yes I did, I had no choice. Just now I went into their website and started the process of applying for a Sky Sports pass. The 'country' field offers you either 'UK' or 'Channel Islands' and you are required to enter a valid UK postcode.

I don't know if the same applies to the other options you can purchase but the only option I would ever want to purchase is a 7 day sports pass to watch the golf majors.

Kristopherus

coylemj wrote: »

Yes I did, I had no choice. Just now I went into their website and started the process of applying for a Sky Sports pass. The 'country' field offers you either 'UK' or 'Channel Islands' and you are required to enter a valid UK postcode.

I don't know if the same applies to the other options you can purchase but the only option I would ever want to purchase is a 7 day sports pass to watch the golf majors.

From what you say, it seems to me that getting a pass from Ebay Uk is your only option.

Schwanz

I use an Irish visa debit without issue. I have an account since the birth of now using my old sky id as user i.d.

Great service

doxy

Thinking of signing up to this. They have a deal for 3 months entertainment package for £3 at present.

So u need to use a UK card and a UK address? Would a revolt card qualify as a UK card?

lawred2

doxy wrote: »

Thinking of signing up to this. They have a deal for 3 months entertainment package for £3 at present.

So u need to use a UK card and a UK address? Would a revolt card qualify as a UK card?

good thinking - I have one of those

icdg

There is (again) no discussion of circumventing regional restrictions here

spix

The irish website has vanished

lertsnim

It works for me.

Dave..M

Also posted this in online TV but there's a few threads about this so adding here to as it's relevant.

Interestingly if you wander around their help section there is a how to apply voucher section and if you scroll down the price of the Entertainment voucher listed there is 9.99 as opposed the complete gouging 15 quid price they decided to go with. At some stage a more reasonable price was in the cards but their base tendencies to gouge Paddy got the better of them.


https://help.nowtv.com/ie/article/how-to-apply-or-enter-voucher-code

mackersdublin

It's a pity the Now TV app is not available in ROI on Smart TVs when its available in the UK

Schwanz

Can you apply a pass code bought in the UK to an irish account?

Dave..M

Schwanz wrote: »

Can you apply a pass code bought in the UK to an irish account?

Extremely unlikely they'd leave that loop hole open but sure give it a go