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nialli 01-05-2014 21:54
Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by theone2k10 (Post 35694417)
£6.99 isn't too bad tbh it's about the same price for http://www.vutv.com/
Typical Sky. They raise the price by 40% as the current series of Game of Thrones reaches its climax. Criminal.
Now TV was unavailable most of last Sunday and had nationwide problems again on Monday, the picture quality is poor and it buffers regardless of your broadband speed. The On Demand service is more watchable than the live streams, but is still blighted by ridiculous indent breaks every few scenes.
And they wonder why people download illegal copies...

muppetman11 01-05-2014 22:49
Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by nialli (Post 35694439)
Typical Sky. They raise the price by 40% as the current series of Game of Thrones reaches its climax. Criminal.
Now TV was unavailable most of last Sunday and had nationwide problems again on Monday, the picture quality is poor and it buffers regardless of your broadband speed. The On Demand service is more watchable than the live streams, but is still blighted by ridiculous indent breaks every few scenes.
And they wonder why people download illegal copies...
I actually think £6.99 is still reasonable however I'd have held off with a price increase until they had the service working perfectly for everyone , constant outages and peak time disruption is totally unacceptable from a service your paying for. I notice they've now issued an official apology on the Now TV community site and rightly so , must admit I've not suffered however I only have the movie pass and don't watch as frequently.

The service is being retailed at a higher price than both Amazon and Netflix and as such should be just as reliable , I'm sure people would justify the price increase more if they could A) Improve reliability and B) improve the 720p streams to 1080i or 1080p like its competitors and throw in 5.1audio.

Chad 01-05-2014 22:58
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Virgin Media offering Netflix free for 6 months across all TV collections for new customers

http://store.virginmedia.com/digital...d/netflix.html

Kabaal 01-05-2014 23:45
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The price bump would be fine if half the content wasn't restricted.

denphone 02-05-2014 06:30
Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by theone2k10 (Post 35694417)
£6.99 isn't too bad tbh it's about the same price for http://www.vutv.com/
And that's poor value given some of the poor content on there.

muppetman11 03-05-2014 11:13
Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
 
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Originally Posted by Kabaal (Post 35694319)
Sky's Now TV entertainment pack price is going up from 4.99 to 6.99 per month on the 31st May http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php...rice-hike.html

Just when i was thinking of picking a box up too.
According to this link it's being held for now.

http://community.nowtv.com/t5/Movies.../141884/page/4

RichardCoulter 03-05-2014 19:34
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Just watched this weeks 'Click' on BBC News (it should be on the iplayer soon for those who want to watch it) and thought that this might be useful for those of you who want to watch Netflix etc on your TV, as opposed to on a tablet, laptop etc, but are currently unable to do so.

About 20 mins in, they cover ways to do this easily.

The first way is to use a Chromecast Dongle, which is now available in the UK for £30 and contains a browser:

http://www.knowyourmobile.com/google...er-netflix-tow

The second way they covered was the use of a Roku stick and the third was Amazons Fire TV (currently only available in the USA).

Can any of these be used to access Now TV, to enable those VM subscribers who use this to watch Sky Atlantic to enjoy a better viewing experience?

nialli 04-05-2014 08:49
Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 35694883)
Just watched this weeks 'Click' on BBC News (it should be on the iplayer soon for those who want to watch it) and thought that this might be useful for those of you who want to watch Netflix etc on your TV, as opposed to on a tablet, laptop etc, but are currently unable to do so.

About 20 mins in, they cover ways to do this easily.

The first way is to use a Chromecast Dongle, which is now available in the UK for £30 and contains a browser:

http://www.knowyourmobile.com/google...er-netflix-tow

The second way they covered was the use of a Roku stick and the third was Amazons Fire TV (currently only available in the USA).

Can any of these be used to access Now TV, to enable those VM subscribers who use this to watch Sky Atlantic to enjoy a better viewing experience?
You can watch NowTV (albeit with the usual quality issues) on a tablet or smartphone, so I guess you can then stream it to a Chromecast or similar. Having said that, Sky disables the HDMI out on the Sky Go App, so they may have done similar with NowTV.

andy_m 04-05-2014 17:09
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nialli (Post 35694960)
You can watch NowTV (albeit with the usual quality issues) on a tablet or smartphone, so I guess you can then stream it to a Chromecast or similar. Having said that, Sky disables the HDMI out on the Sky Go App, so they may have done similar with NowTV.
I would have thought Now TV would be fine. Sky Go do it presumably to stop people using someone else's Sky Go login and being able to watch footy on their big telly, but NowTV is a standalone service, rather than a companion, which allows big screen viewing.

dilli-theclaw 04-05-2014 17:17
Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 35694883)
Just watched this weeks 'Click' on BBC News (it should be on the iplayer soon for those who want to watch it) and thought that this might be useful for those of you who want to watch Netflix etc on your TV, as opposed to on a tablet, laptop etc, but are currently unable to do so.

About 20 mins in, they cover ways to do this easily.

The first way is to use a Chromecast Dongle, which is now available in the UK for £30 and contains a browser:

http://www.knowyourmobile.com/google...er-netflix-tow

The second way they covered was the use of a Roku stick and the third was Amazons Fire TV (currently only available in the USA).

Can any of these be used to access Now TV, to enable those VM subscribers who use this to watch Sky Atlantic to enjoy a better viewing experience?
The roku stick has nowtv. Mind you if you don't need Netflix (as you get it on the TiVo box) you can get a nowtv specific roku box for £10.

Not that I would.

RichardCoulter 08-05-2014 20:46
Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by dilli-theclaw (Post 35695086)
The roku stick has nowtv. Mind you if you don't need Netflix (as you get it on the TiVo box) you can get a nowtv specific roku box for £10.

Not that I would.
Thanks for the info.

From what I have seen, most people on Cableforum seem happy with Now TV, but this thread on Digital Spy shows that some people have been having problems.

It also states that a Sky CS rep stated that Now TV is a seperate entity to Sky, if correct, I didn't know that!

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1961490

theone2k10 08-05-2014 22:34
Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 35696362)
Thanks for the info.

From what I have seen, most people on Cableforum seem happy with Now TV, but this thread on Digital Spy shows that some people have been having problems.

It also states that a Sky CS rep stated that Now TV is a seperate entity to Sky, if correct, I didn't know that!

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1961490
BIB is absolute bullcrap from Sky, a friend of mine signed up to nowtv and within a day his nowtv account was cancelled as he still owed Sky money from when he had Sky and Sky never refunded him the £8.99 he had paid either.
Skys moto should be Sky do not believe in better.

denphone 09-05-2014 07:49
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l have just had a email this morning from Netflix which says.

Quote:
In order to continue adding more films and TV programmes, we are increasing our price from £5.99 to £6.99 for new members. As a thank you for being a member of Netflix already, we guarantee that your plan and price will not change for two years.

Kabaal 09-05-2014 07:56
Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35696447)
l have just had a email this morning from Netflix which says...
Got that too. 2 years is a nice surprise, i was expecting a couple of months when they said current users wouldn't increase for a while.

theone2k10 09-05-2014 11:37
Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
 
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Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35696447)
l have just had a email this morning from Netflix which says.
Just got that email myself.


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