Limited stocks, but found some in London (Marble Arch). I Check Stock appears down at the mo, so cannot confirm how many. Believe old style, so reduced. Also same price with 3 month Sky Entertainment pass (http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/2800150.htm), but cannot find any availability close to me.
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hollger
28 Jan 163#28
ShopTo selling the new box and 2 months movies or 3 months entertainment for £11.86, would personally pick that over the old box here.
garethdphillips
28 Jan 163#12
Its also worth pointing out (as you are keen on using one for a second TV with no aerial) that in addition to Sky Movies / sports / entertainment packs, you also get BBC iPlayer, ITV player, 4 On Demand and Demand 5 totally free, as well as YouTube and various other apps, so it really is a great bit of kit for the price, regardless of the Sky paid stuff
bryanhaines399
27 Jan 163#5
you'd probably be better looking for a deal on the newer model if you're likely to use iPlayer as it runs very badly, can take 30+ seconds to respond to commands at times (rebooting usually gets it running again for a while). shame that they forced that version of iPlayer as the old one was fine. other services run fine though.
also on this box you can install plex and stream video from a PC (with plex server). all very easy to set up and main reason I got one.
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lord_trumpington
27 Jan 16#1
Do these things stream over the internet or are they COAX attached to a TV ariel?. If internet do they broadcast wi-fi?
bryanhaines399 to lord_trumpington
27 Jan 161#2
they don't broadcast, they receive stream from internet via WiFi.
lord_trumpington
27 Jan 16#3
Thanks for confirming, sounds ideal for the bedroom where we don't have a coax/ariel point. Unfortunately this deal isn't available local to me but there seems to be plenty of other offers about. Presumably you can register one of these even if you are already a sky customer (and if not register under another name)?
2bhappy
27 Jan 161#4
I have Sky but am registered for Now TV for movies.
bryanhaines399
27 Jan 163#5
you'd probably be better looking for a deal on the newer model if you're likely to use iPlayer as it runs very badly, can take 30+ seconds to respond to commands at times (rebooting usually gets it running again for a while). shame that they forced that version of iPlayer as the old one was fine. other services run fine though.
also on this box you can install plex and stream video from a PC (with plex server). all very easy to set up and main reason I got one.
FamilyGuy67
27 Jan 161#6
The new black box is on offer at Tesco £19 includes 4 mths Sky Movies voucher
lord_trumpington
27 Jan 16#7
Good to know, thanks :wink:
Major_Black
27 Jan 16#8
Where did you find for £19? Online showing £40?
FamilyGuy67
27 Jan 16#9
Tesco there's a link on here few hrs ago scroll down
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also on this box you can install plex and stream video from a PC (with plex server). all very easy to set up and main reason I got one.
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also on this box you can install plex and stream video from a PC (with plex server). all very easy to set up and main reason I got one.