Don't forget you can link your Ultra Violet collection to Flixster and watch your movies on the Now tv Flixster app :wink:

NowTV is pretty damn lazy and they're yet to add subtitles to their movies / entertainment packs so you see. Like, what the hell, subtitles are considered essentials for movies/shows either due to hearing loss or to watch at night (audio at minimum).

I've requested subtitles ever since the early days of NowTV and they still don't have. That's quite impressive. lol

Good stuff...
I'm still waiting for my £10 credit from the NowTV offer on psn, but a spare box for upstairs and 3 months of UK Gold should soften the blow.
Thanks for posting.

Sky is just crap, sports has become worthless as hardly anything on all moved over to BT sports, the usual entertainment package price been put up to £30 per month, are they serious, nothing great to watch, plus trying to recoup the cost of the premier league from all other customers. I wouldn't be surprised they don't have subtitle's as probably want you to move over to the full box paying £30 a month for the same channels

Good stuff...
I'm still waiting for my £10 credit from the NowTV offer on psn, but a spare box for upstairs and 3 months of UK Gold should soften the blow.
Thanks for posting.

These black boxes don't seem that much of a improvement over the white ones but they do load things faster for me anyway with plex, plus a usb port to charge stuff :smiley: worth it for the box alone.

HOT

It plays some video files so that's definitely an improvement.

Does it?

Haven't checked in a while but last time I did the sd slot and usb was for channels

Got a link or more info?

Yup. Good thing I don't delete my browse history. :smiley:


http://community.nowtv.com/t5/NOW-TV-Box-black/Usb/m-p/324322#M709

No actual app from nowtv then :disappointed:

Can't sideload it as it will delete plex, which is all I use it for

Thanks though will keep checking

If they had a box with a free app to watch videos then it'd defeat the purpose of NowTV. :stuck_out_tongue:

True, they could offer it as a added bonus to watch your home movies etc, not everyone downloads video files off the internet, some just like the convenience of it being in one place with no faffing about which will be the majority of there customers I'd expect

NowTV is pretty damn lazy and they're yet to add subtitles to their movies / entertainment packs so you see. Like, what the hell, subtitles are considered essentials for movies/shows either due to hearing loss or to watch at night (audio at minimum).

I've requested subtitles ever since the early days of NowTV and they still don't have. That's quite impressive. lol

Sky is just crap, sports has become worthless as hardly anything on all moved over to BT sports, the usual entertainment package price been put up to £30 per month, are they serious, nothing great to watch, plus trying to recoup the cost of the premier league from all other customers. I wouldn't be surprised they don't have subtitle's as probably want you to move over to the full box paying £30 a month for the same channels

Don't forget you can link your Ultra Violet collection to Flixster and watch your movies on the Now tv Flixster app :wink:

:disappointed: missed out again..they have now sold out

Great deal but sold out now

OOS :disappointed:

I really want one of these purely for plex! I just can't spend £35 on a fire stick when this is 1/3 the price. #itsahardknocklife

I have the old white NOW TV box. What is very disappointing though is if you cancel the contract they eventually cut you off from using the box you bought for accessing free stuff like BBC IPLAYER, 4CATCHUP, 5ONDEMAND etc.

Well its not rubbish because I posted it as thats what happened with my white box. I cancelled the contract and a few months later when I attempt to access the mentioned services they are not available. Just because you had a different experience, does not make my stated one rubbish?

Fair enough it may not be the case of all.... I would reckon they monitor dormant paying users and cleanse access where they set fit. It is SKY TV at the end of the day and they know how to minimise service load and maximise revenue.

missed it. damn.

For anyone interested, this has just recently come back in stock. Well worth it if you looking for an entertainment box, seems to be the best price by some margin...

Got the 6 month entertainment bundle from amazon last week or so ago. Does seem quicker at loading videos via plex and the added ethernet port is a big plus. Hooked it up to the living room TV and the girls have the white one in their room to watch the entertainment pass.

can't seem to add a card to shoot, tried several cards all bring up an error.

Out of stock, Can't back order with PayPal and it's refused to make an account with both my credit cards :-\

They just can't give them away..... Need to add more kids channels and basically more channels. Very disappointing.

Every box has a HDMI cable and 2 AAA batteries included as well!

Cheers for the flixster info, I've got a few things on there!

Unfortunately it seemed to go out of stock almost as soon as I posted that they were back in, sorry. I expect they only had a few. At least you can back order them (provided you have an account). It will let me back order up to two without taking payment (until they are available), can probably back order more if you are prepared to pay in advance...

Back order is quite a nice feature of shop to, more sites (looking at you Amazon) should offer it.

I posted a back-order (or two), which is now on it's way. So I back ordered some more.. Nice.

Just ordered 2 on back order, dunno when they'll come though. Hopefully they'll send mine now like nervejams.

Yes okay, bad choice of wording there by me, the point I was making is if I am not paying a monthly subscription, a few months after my last period of paying for the service, I got cut off from the IPLAYER etc. Maybe I am in the minority? Or has this happened to others?

Can anybody suggest anything for Netflix please?

I'm looking for something other than Sky for my aged Mother as I am truly sick to death of the bartering at the end of contracts and their poxy bundles. Why not just give the customer the best price, for what they want to watch?

She watches History channels, Animal Planet, Discovery channels, Nat. Geographic & something called C.I. (Crime/Investigation).

My Mother is not internet/computer savy, but she wields a tv controller better than any US politician with an engraved gun. And she makes lovely tea.

Any help would be great kind folks.

Hi can someone explain what "plex" is in lay mans terms pleaseee

I've not heard of it from anyone else, and I have a box that still works fine despite never having been used for anything other than the free 2 week trial and Plex for a year or so since then.

I'd be interested to hear if others have been 'cut off' too - it may be that your box is faulty or corrupt?

I've never dealt with ShopTo before, but (apart from their not-very-helpful e-mails) it's been pretty easy.
Amazon should implement "back-orders"..

Not to me, just used it recently after several months... :neutral_face:

Is it possible to sideload Kodi on those NowTV boxes?

Just followed the link and they are now sold out

Never heard of this happening to anyone else.

Do the other on TV demand services still work (ITV, Ch 4 and 5)?

Is the Now TV box definitely still connected to the broadband router?

Received the first of these orders yesterday.

just to let you guys know - it's back in stock again!

Oh good price and free shipping! Ordered.

I've got one of these boxes and use it to watch catch up tv upstairs sometimes. I have a Virgin Media box in the sitting room as well. I'd like to get one of the boxes for my daughter (who lives elsewhere) but just want to check a couple of things.

Where my daughter lives, the house owner has Sky tv downstairs and my daughter has an extra box in her room. However, she says that she is not able to catch up with, ie, Eastenders, using the box in her room. Seeing that the sitting room downstairs has the main Sky box, would she be able to use one of these boxes alongside the extra box in her room? Mine plugs into the back of my tv with an HDMI cable, but I don't know how Sky boxes are set up - would she need to plug this box into the place where her current Sky box lead is, or would the box connect directly to the Sky box (and then you'd connect to the internet downstairs)? Thank you.

All my back-orders are now on their way.. nice

out of stock

Same as your connection basically but via sky instead of virginmedia, connect via hdmi to tv and connect wireless to sky boardband router downstairs9 only watchable while Internet is On

Oos again

Who is buying these? No one wants the box and maybe the pass is wanted because they haven't realised how naff the channel selection is! Landfill will be groaning or loads of African children wondering what all these 1000's of boxes are in a few months time...

I buy them just for the vouchers. Altho at present I only have the older white box so will be upgrading to black but I'll have a few reserved. But really, yeah, I just buy them for the vouchers.
There is no way I would go back to SKY box subscriptions! Unless a hot woman sleeps with me and my wife! :wink:

I've got 4 boxes running Plex, without a Now TV sub and have had them running for over a year. Not sure Sky can even do what you're saying it's not the way the box works.
You're find its one of the following:
1.Old Software needs updating- Leave it on for a day or so to get updates.
2.Its not linked to your Internet properly, check your settings.
3.Your Internet is down, call BT/Sky/Talktalk/whoever.
4.If in doubt do a factory reset on it.
Further information available on the official Now TV Forum.
To be fair to Sky whilst I'm not a fan of the contracts for Satellites I feel the boxes are brilliant. I used to use a PI with XBMC but my wife found it fiddly, this is a much better option and the price is great.
Heat added

I've got 4 boxes running Plex, without a Now TV sub and have had them running for over a year. Not sure Sky can even do what you're saying it's not the way the box works.
You're find its one of the following:
1.Old Software needs updating- Leave it on for a day or so to get updates.
2.Its not linked to your Internet properly, check your settings.
3.Your Internet is down, call BT/Sky/Talktalk/whoever.
4.If in doubt do a factory reset on it.
Further information available on the official Now TV Forum.
To be fair to Sky whilst I'm not a fan of the contracts for Satellites I feel the boxes are brilliant. I used to use a PI with XBMC but my wife found it fiddly, this is a much better option and the price is great.
Heat added

Thats garbage mate
Am using my now tv box just for youtube
How can u cancel a contract ? There isnt a contract in the first place

stonking deal

Links not working...?

Oh I see, I would have expected to see a sold out message or something but it looks like an invalid page

Received this morning - it was posted 1st class! Crazy.

I have 4 on the way..

Are theses hd or sd tv output?

Anybody else see that you can get £10 off any purchase from ShopTo if you sign up to ilovecashback.com?
I've never heard of them myself but if they're decent they offer 4% off future ShopTo purchases.

whats advantages of using Plex?

The new boxes have no form of video out other than HDMI, so if you have a set with no HDMI like a CRT or early LCD sets/projectors you are better off sticking to the white box, which at least has an optional RCA (composite) connection.

To be honest, so few people fall into those categories I can see why they removed the analogue connection but still a shame for the few that need it....

Plex is just your media server. Installing Plex add in on your NowTV box just makes the box a 'client' so you can watch your movies from your plex server on your tv.

Yea - Ordered TY

Sorry did you reply to the wrong comment? I said HDMI only unless they own an adapter/converer they'd be stuffed.

rubbish offer! have some ice!

Thanks OP just ordered one, my vodafone contract expired so when i got the renewal went for netflix instead of nowtv
So easy to get nowtv deal, but not so easy to find netflix deal so can now have both

Sorry I mean SD standard definition or HD definition output?

Sorry, must have misread but basically I meant the only practical option is HDMI on the new ones as the converters are ~3 times the value of the now tv box so I couldn't see anyone buying one specifically to use with a £10 now tv box though you never know I guess...

720p

All the way up to Full HD 1080p (depending on what you're watching).

Or, slightly different, a YouView box which also contains a Freeview HD receiver and 300GB of storage? Can get them second hand cheap - even cheaper without a remote control, which is no problem if you have a decent universal one (Harmony). YouView is nice and friendly with its into the past programme guide and "book me" recording from trailers.

Does anyone know if you can install plex on these black ones?

I got one of these from JS for my parents so they can access iplayer, and other catch-up services.
Thought I`d set it up for them, but there`s no way to get an account without adding a credit or debit card.

So I asked NowTv Chat and they said you have to buy one of their passes before you can access catch-up and that`s why you have to register a card.

I asked two different agents because it wasn`t what I understood, is this how it works?

£12.85 ?? Is there a discount code ?

A little confused by some of the comments. I picked up one of these from Sainsbury's, last week, and haven't opened it, yet. Do I need to enter credit card details if I don't intend to use the entertainment pass? I bought it to use with my computer monitor, which I have a DVI to HDMI connector for. As far as I can see, there isn't an audio out socket, so I could need a breakout box from the HDMI to give me a separate audio out. Would appreciate any thoughts and advice on those questions, thanks! Adding heat, though I'll keep the Sainsbury's-bought box, like easy returns, if need be.

12.85 now

I really like youview boxes as PVRs, I use two the BT T2100 500GB and the Huawei DN371T 500GB and they are both really nice to use with a great user interface and much faster performance than the ancient old Virgin Media Tivo, which now barely gets switched on.

But and it's a big one, they are IMHO sadly quite limited as a streaming iptv and apps solution. They cover most of the catch up TV services well but apart from that it's a bit sparse. The Now TV app is pathetic as it doesn't even offer the whole service (just Movies, no Entertainment) and you can forget about things like Plex (which can be easily added to Now TV boxes), Amazon Video etc.

It's a real shame as Youview had the potential to bring the PVR and streaming / IPTV services together in one nice user friendly whole but IMO they have largely failed in that objective though they are still great PVRs just with basic catch up type apps.