don't forget the level of services of nowtv is limited comparing to proper sky box.... but see your point time to cancel sky!! 60quid a month is a lot or money....

Buy it now while it's cheap, you don't have to activate it immediately!

If you are a first time customer claim the free trial before you activate the codes and get an extra 2 weeks.

Its crazy.. you effectively have sky for a year (entertainment pass) at £40 !!! that's what I've been doing and I'm completely happy with it and most of the box sets come back so if you've missed say the knick or boardwalk empire it's brilliant and the new update tells you what's good on catch up (bbc ect) :-) definitely wouldn't sign back up with sky .. They don't look after there customers

Sky will quickly offer you discounts when you cancel- you may in some circumstances have to wait until it is turned off, but normally they will come back before- if they do, don't accept the first offer. You will get it for £30 a month again I have little doubt. Record the call though as twice I had them promise me something then backtrack- the ones who call you to get you to resign up are on commission and cannot be trusted. In the end Sky would not agree with me they had offered me HD (which they definitely had) so I insisted they get the call recording - which they then claimed they had lost. Told them to get stuffed and have not been a Sky customer since, more fool them.

​give them a call speak to cancellations and they will put the price down to 30 again, they only want you to sign another 1year contact. Nowhere cheaper than that. I just done the same.

You can get that down to £46 if you ACTUALLY cancel and wait for the call... or £40 for slightly less channels.

Mine too!

If you lose your remote again, give them a ring and they'll send out a new one free. We have 3 boxes and lost 2 remotes and they replaced both.

normally one year when you buy boxes deals (and not vouchers only)

​you can use as many as you like

I have only ever used the '6 month pass' deals...

You can use as many as you want, just keep the vouchers in a safe place and activate as you need to. Sky say they are valid only up to a year but they don't know when the box is purchased and there's no expiry date on the voucher cards.

You can use another one ..
I have used 3 up til now

Buy two, that's a years worth of a cut-down Sky service for £40 - there are always these deals coming around every month...

You make a note of the cancellation date, cancel the day before (online, no phone calls) , apply new one whenever!

You can only have one pending at any one time I believe, I store mine in a safe place and set a date on my Google calendar to remind me to activate another card on the day before.

The white box picture quality was bad for me. I haven't tried the black box yet. Recently I have used the NOWTV app and casted it to an original chromecast and the quality is very good. I also tried the PS4 app and it was good but didn't seem quite as good as through chromecast :smiley:

Picture quality isn't a problem for me, it will downgrade if you haven't got a fast enough connection but its definitely a good 720p resolution with minimal artifacting in fast action.

Yes you register it on your Now TV account and it applies to up to 4 devices. So for example you can register a black now tv box, Xbox one, a smartphone & a tablet.

You can watch simultaneously on any 2 of your registered devices.

You are allowed to change one of those devices per month (Apparently in a shorter time if you contact nowtv CS - I.e tablet broke and you need to register another one quickly)

Surely the picture quality goes in line with your internet connection? If other people are streaming or your internet speed isn't great then that could be the problem. What speed does it run at?

Nope - they never did with me. I waited and waited. The best they could offer me was £10 off! I don't think so! Cancelled it last year and have been happily on NowTV/Netflix since!

Why not buy the box+voucher and flog the box on eBay for a tenner?

You can (vouchers are available in Game and other stores) but it will cost more than this. You could use the box on another TV in the house with the same account or could sell the box to CEX (only £2 cash or £3 credit but it reduces the overall cost).

It's on the original post at top http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/4536886.htm

You get 12 channels on entertainment

Sky 1
Sky Living
Sky Atlantic
Sky Arts
Fox
Gold
MTV
Discovery
Comedy central
Nickelodeon
Disney
Nickjr

So basically it's the most popular channels that have all the decent Stuff

And Gold....

Oh and you can watch Sky Sports News too via the app on the box and mobiles.

To be honest, we never use it for live TV - just catch up from Living and Atlantic and box sets...

isnt this just entertainment?

Can stream to 2 devices at once so yes

No

You can side load plex and add various plugins to the plex server on your PC though.

must of missed that, i have a £5 left over from an amazon gift card, waiting for them to match or beat this so i can get it sub £15

.....your mobiles battery doesn't die before finishing your post? :smile:

Recommends min 2.5mbps per box so you will be fine, new box pulls in a decent signal via WiFi in my experience, far better than an Amazon Fire Stick anyway.

Really simple, finally got round to changing mine over last weekend. Just unplug the white box, use the new leads to plug black box in the same sockets etc. then the black box "talks" you through the new set up , just need access to your now tv user name, password and wifi password.

No

Nope, you will get it in 720p tho!

You don't even get it in 1080p from Sky via satellite, Sky broadcasts in 1080i to save on bandwidth.

yeah iplayer works fine with no pass,

Yes, all the catchup apps continue to work bar the Sky Channels one obviously.

Are you sure? Mine only sees my 2ghz network.

And I've already sideloaded plex onto it but which app works as a local player?

Yes you can.

I have a Tivo and we rarely sit down to watch it now, we all use Now TV

Catch-up and box sets are making recording redundant, there's some stuff that for licencing reasons don't appear on catch-up but for most you usually have 28 days to watch it.

if the monitor has HDMI yes

Because it's Sky and that would be commercial suicide to do so! Movies and Entertainment for £16.98pm is still far better than Netflix, other than their own grown content just about everything on Netflix is ancient compared to NowTV's offering - Walking Dead, Vinyl, Game of Thrones etc don't come cheap to show so quickly.

These won't be redundant for a good long while, its quite a quick box, Sky have said the new one has a tuner, they haven't said its more powerful.

Nope and nope, They run Roku OS but they are incredibly well locked down, you can sideload apps onto it via the dev settings if they are available.

Yes, its mains powered and shows live TV.

Yes and then you get it much cheaper for a year if you sign up again then they sneakily raise it by £20 in the next year.

You can use up two devices simultaneously with one account.

Yes.
We have 4 boxes using one account - only 2 can be used at the same time though.

Fire TV doesn't have Now TV so the devices aren't comparable. The NowTV box is strictly a streamer, the Fire Stick is more flexible.

Most are streamed in 720p, strictly speaking over 90% of channels on Freeview are SD so clearly plenty of people still do in 2016....

4 months movies bundle is a separate package HERE

The code is on a piece of card. It says 1,2,3...Go now tv entertainment pass on one side, the other side has a scratch off panel over the code. It could be someone has bought it, removed the voucher and returned the unit for a refund, Argos are pretty slack checking returns.

My apps>bbc iPlayer>channels

Select bbc1 bbc2 etc then move to 'on now' > watch live

My apps>ITV app>Channels

Select ITV, ITV2 ITVBe etc (will show what is 'on now')

Sell the boxes on eBay and it works out to £40 for the year!!!

With the Entertainment pass, yes.

Fuel broadband is quite cheap. How does it compare to Virgin or sky please? I'm getting rid of virgin as it's dear

Thanks. Is it powerful broadband. No problems?

That's very unlucky have you tried the 4 month movies availability as that's in store in all 10 stores closest to me -

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Search/searchTerm/NOW+TV+Box+with+4+months.htm

No, I don't believe there is.

The HDMI cable uses HDCP (High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection), a copy protection scheme to eliminate the possibility of intercepting digital data midstream between the source to the TV.

I think the Now TV box also contains a video (yellow), audio left (red) and audio right (white) cable connection which you could connect to a DVD/HD recorder. But it will probably also have a copy protection system.

You could buy an A/V adapter for the older white box but it would only output in NTSC via the A/V plug (doh!) There is no A/V connector on the new black box so an HDMI to A/V converter is needed and the one I got off ebay does not work on it (but does from my tablet)

Yes the voucher will work with the white boxes.