Enhance your entertainment experience with NOW TV.
This package is perfect for those that love sports; access live action on every Sky Sports channel without a contract. It also comes with the NOW TV Box that turns your TV into a smart TV and lets you watch all the biggest matches, races and events from Sky Sports on the best screen in the house. Channels include Sky Sports, Sky Sports News, Sky Sports F1 and more.
You can also use your Sky Sports Pass with your tablet, games console, PC or Mac. Register up to 4 devices and watch on 2 at the same time.
15 comments
lord_trumpington
9 Feb 16#1
Worth mentioning that this is the updated Now TV box. Great deal if you can find it.
Amazingly I managed to get 1 from my Greenock store
modelman
9 Feb 16#5
These 2nd gen boxes are ok but you can't adjust the refresh rate from 60Hz to 50Hz which causes panning stutter on some programs. RarFlix also suffers with this issue on some material however a modern smart TV can often compensate to some degree. Chromecast had the same issue leaving it stuck on US 60Hz format but this was later fixed due to people complaining. Now TV don't seem interested in addressing the 50Hz UK format for some reason.
Bossworld to modelman
10 Feb 16#14
Does iPlayer and the like actually support 50hz though, or are the streams sent from the servers at 60hz? If you watch the bbc news ticker on iPlayer on PS3 (which from memory I think shows up as 50hz), the news ticker still has microstutter.
I spent years battling refresh rates with Windows 7MC back in the day, and with a lot of US TV show rips being 60hz.
Mainly used 7MC as a sky replacement for recording/live TV, so I just leaned to live with watching 60hz content at 50hz.
Bradmax57
9 Feb 16#6
cold not available withing 50 miles
sunpreet
9 Feb 16#7
A new box is on its way. Hold tight
thearbiter65 to sunpreet
9 Feb 16#8
For £11 I think I'll just buy both.
lornski
9 Feb 16#9
Check for passes before you leave store. We got 1 and both passes were missing, exchanged it to find the passes were missing too. Maybe local to my Argos. Now TV helpline sorted it out.
physco786
10 Feb 16#10
What are the capability of these boxes? What happens when the passes run out and you don't want to buy new passed? Can the boxes still be used? Can they be linked and controlled by your phone or tablet?
Blackhorse to physco786
10 Feb 16#12
Works fine without passes
Have use of all on demand services, BBC, ITV, 4OD and 5 on Demand
So this alone is pretty good
Also can sideload plex to make it a media server
Roku remote on your phone work for these
bharats
10 Feb 16#11
this deal has already been posted
kramer2088
10 Feb 16#13
There's stock at Breahead for anybody west central Scotland.
Opening post
This package is perfect for those that love sports; access live action on every Sky Sports channel without a contract. It also comes with the NOW TV Box that turns your TV into a smart TV and lets you watch all the biggest matches, races and events from Sky Sports on the best screen in the house. Channels include Sky Sports, Sky Sports News, Sky Sports F1 and more.
You can also use your Sky Sports Pass with your tablet, games console, PC or Mac. Register up to 4 devices and watch on 2 at the same time.
15 comments
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I spent years battling refresh rates with Windows 7MC back in the day, and with a lot of US TV show rips being 60hz.
Mainly used 7MC as a sky replacement for recording/live TV, so I just leaned to live with watching 60hz content at 50hz.
Have use of all on demand services, BBC, ITV, 4OD and 5 on Demand
So this alone is pretty good
Also can sideload plex to make it a media server
Roku remote on your phone work for these