Netflix/Streaming Services
01-05-2014, 22:54
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Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
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Originally Posted by theone2k10
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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...
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01-05-2014, 23:49
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#557
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Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
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Originally Posted by nialli
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...
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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.
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01-05-2014, 23:58
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#558
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Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
Virgin Media offering Netflix free for 6 months across all TV collections for new customers
http://store.virginmedia.com/digital...d/netflix.html
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02-05-2014, 00:45
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Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
The price bump would be fine if half the content wasn't restricted.
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02-05-2014, 07:30
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Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
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Originally Posted by theone2k10
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And that's poor value given some of the poor content on there.
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03-05-2014, 20:34
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Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
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?
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04-05-2014, 09:49
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#563
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Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
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.
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04-05-2014, 18:09
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Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
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Originally Posted by nialli
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.
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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.
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04-05-2014, 18:17
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Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
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.
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08-05-2014, 21:46
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Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
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Originally Posted by dilli-theclaw
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.
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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
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08-05-2014, 23:34
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Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
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.
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09-05-2014, 08:49
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Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
l have just had a email this morning from Netflix which says.
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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.
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09-05-2014, 08:56
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Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
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Originally Posted by denphone
l have just had a email this morning from Netflix which says...
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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.
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09-05-2014, 12:37
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Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
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Originally Posted by denphone
l have just had a email this morning from Netflix which says.
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Just got that email myself.
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