NowTV Box(Roku LT) - £10.00 inc (€11.89) new model £14.99

vibe666 · 15-11-2014 7:30am

Corholio wrote: »

I started reading this thread early and sort of lost track after that. Now I'm very interested in purchasing this as a christmas present for someone. It would mainly be for the channels, but if the Plex thing is handy it would be interesting to me too. A few questions if someone would be very kind to answer.

Thanks to anyone that can help me with these. It would really make a difference to someone if this worked out suitable to them.

1. Yes, a few such as 4oD and Sky News, plus some other minor ones.
2. you get a 30 day movie pass when you sign up as a taster. there are sometimes passes for movies and entertainment at a good price on ebay although it just seems to be sports passes right now. there's also the odd special offer on here, i've had 3 or 4 months free on movies in the last year afaik.
3. Plex allows you to connect the nowTV to a back-end movie library (either locally or remotely), similar to XBMC just without all the frills. you either need to create your own plex server, or know someone who has one, but you can buy subscriptions to them online fairly cheaply, although it is unlikely to be legal content, so we wouldn't be able to discuss it here.
4. not normally, mine has always been fine, although *very* occasionally it needs the power pulling on the nowTV box to reset it, but it is only very occasionally and I don't recall needing to do it for the last few months at all.
5. check the nowTV website or ebay, sometimes stuff comes up.
6. Yeah, ITV won't work and iPlayer doesn't work unless you change the DNS on your router.
7. Yes and you can have up to 4 nowTV devices on a single account with a max of two in use simultaneously, so if you got two of them and had a movie pass on one and the ent. pass on the other, both boxes would have access to both passes at the same time if they were added to the same account.

Corholio · 16-11-2014 4:59am

vibe666 wrote: »

1. Yes, a few such as 4oD and Sky News, plus some other minor ones.
2. you get a 30 day movie pass when you sign up as a taster. there are sometimes passes for movies and entertainment at a good price on ebay although it just seems to be sports passes right now. there's also the odd special offer on here, i've had 3 or 4 months free on movies in the last year afaik.
3. Plex allows you to connect the nowTV to a back-end movie library (either locally or remotely), similar to XBMC just without all the frills. you either need to create your own plex server, or know someone who has one, but you can buy subscriptions to them online fairly cheaply, although it is unlikely to be legal content, so we wouldn't be able to discuss it here.
4. not normally, mine has always been fine, although *very* occasionally it needs the power pulling on the nowTV box to reset it, but it is only very occasionally and I don't recall needing to do it for the last few months at all.
5. check the nowTV website or ebay, sometimes stuff comes up.
6. Yeah, ITV won't work and iPlayer doesn't work unless you change the DNS on your router.
7. Yes and you can have up to 4 nowTV devices on a single account with a max of two in use simultaneously, so if you got two of them and had a movie pass on one and the ent. pass on the other, both boxes would have access to both passes at the same time if they were added to the same account.

Fantastic. Thanks a lot for answering all them!

1 more question. I'd like to use this on a laptop as well, the problem is it doesn't have a HDMI connection, just a VGA. What would be my options on getting it to work on the laptop? A Converter cable, or a way to stream it to the laptop perhaps?

Thanks again!

beauf · 16-11-2014 7:38am

I thought it pretty good. But it was a bit pricey. I only got it to take advantage of the cheap deals they had originally. I wouldn't pay the full price for it. Just be aware they change what's available around, so stuff disappears from it after a certain time.

vibe666 · 16-11-2014 7:54am

Corholio wrote: »

Fantastic. Thanks a lot for answering all them!

1 more question. I'd like to use this on a laptop as well, the problem is it doesn't have a HDMI connection, just a VGA. What would be my options on getting it to work on the laptop? A Converter cable, or a way to stream it to the laptop perhaps?

Thanks again!

The video connection on a laptop is normally an output only, not an input so you can't connect a nowtv to a laptop like that.

BUT, you actually don't need to because you can log into your nowtv account via your web browser and play your subscribed content without using a nowtv box at all, same goes for plex and iPlayer etc. all available right from your browser on your laptop.

Corholio · 16-11-2014 2:30pm

vibe666 wrote: »

The video connection on a laptop is normally an output only, not an input so you can't connect a nowtv to a laptop like that.

BUT, you actually don't need to because you can log into your nowtv account via your web browser and play your subscribed content without using a nowtv box at all, same goes for plex and iPlayer etc. all available right from your browser on your laptop.

Ah I completely forgot about that way, I wasn't sure if it could be watched in the browser. Been a big help, thanks again!

vibe666 · 16-11-2014 9:17pm

Corholio wrote: »

Ah I completely forgot about that way, I wasn't sure if it could be watched in the browser. Been a big help, thanks again!

I please to aim! :pac:

Mincork · 20-11-2014 2:35pm

Hi there , I clearly missed a few post about giving credit card details when creating a Now TV account , is there any way to create an account without giving said details , I got the box mainly for the apps and free channels on a spare TV , I don't plan on buying any sport or movies services from sky.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

bromley52 · 20-11-2014 4:07pm

Mincork wrote: »

Hi there , I clearly missed a few post about giving credit card details when creating a Now TV account , is there any way to create an account without giving said details , I got the box mainly for the apps and free channels on a spare TV , I don't plan on buying any sport or movies services from sky.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

If you have or had a Sky a/c you could try the username & password from that a/c. That worked for me.

vibe666 · 20-11-2014 6:37pm

Mincork wrote: »

Hi there , I clearly missed a few post about giving credit card details when creating a Now TV account , is there any way to create an account without giving said details , I got the box mainly for the apps and free channels on a spare TV , I don't plan on buying any sport or movies services from sky.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Just remove them from your account.

tharmor · 22-11-2014 8:26am

Any freecodes offers for passes ??

bromley52 · 22-11-2014 8:31am

tharmor wrote: »

Any freecodes offers for passes ??

If you have a Chromecast I think the 3 months free entertainment pack is still there.

tharmor · 22-11-2014 8:37am

bromley52 wrote: »

If you have a Chromecast I think the 3 months free entertainment pack is still there.

Yes I am already on it and absolutely love it !! Was wondering any codes to stack up further as i am ending Dec end

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Mantis Toboggan · 22-11-2014 9:58am

Lads where can you download the now tv app?

bromley52 · 22-11-2014 11:11am

Buddy Holly wrote: »

Lads where can you download the now tv app?

Either directly from the play store or you could use http://apps.evozi.com/apk-downloader/

Simply paste the URL for the now tv app into it and click 'Generate Download Link'. It will either work or it won't.

Mantis Toboggan · 22-11-2014 11:15am

bromley52 wrote: »

Either directly from the play store or you could use http://apps.evozi.com/apk-downloader/

Simply paste the URL for the now tv app into it and click 'Generate Download Link'. It will either work or it won't.

Couldn't find it in the playstore.
Just downloaded it now, can't see anything about Chromecast though!

tharmor · 22-11-2014 11:36pm

Buddy Holly wrote: »

Couldn't find it in the playstore.
Just downloaded it now, can't see anything about Chromecast though!

In ur chromecast app on ur mobile click offers..then follow the steps to get 3 months free entertainment pass.....

StaticNoise · 24-11-2014 9:42pm

tharmor wrote: »

In ur chromecast app on ur mobile click offers..then follow the steps to get 3 months free entertainment pass.....

Any way around this if you have the app but not the device?

bromley52 · 24-11-2014 10:21pm

StaticNoise wrote: »

Any way around this if you have the app but not the device?

No

Joo0 · 25-11-2014 8:43pm

Anyone pick up a special Christmas nowtv box?

nava · 25-11-2014 8:48pm

Joo0 wrote: »

Anyone pick up a special Christmas nowtv box?

Looks like sold out, only bought a new box couple of week ago, pity didn't know about them.

:(

beauf · 25-11-2014 8:51pm

Never heard of it before

Joo0 · 25-11-2014 8:54pm

beauf wrote: »

Never heard of it before

http://www.nowtv.com/christmasbox
Missed out myself

degsie · 25-11-2014 9:10pm

Hacked NowTV being sold on Amazon, didn't think they allowed this!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Now-Box-PLEX-Installed-YouTube/dp/B00HRD4BWG/

bromley52 · 25-11-2014 10:13pm

degsie wrote: »

Hacked NowTV being sold on Amazon, didn't think they allowed this!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Now-Box-PLEX-Installed-YouTube/dp/B00HRD4BWG/

In what way is it hacked?

domeld · 25-11-2014 10:16pm

degsie wrote: »

Hacked NowTV being sold on Amazon, didn't think they allowed this!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Now-Box-PLEX-Installed-YouTube/dp/B00HRD4BWG/

Hi,
I can sell you for 20 euro

keano25 · 26-11-2014 3:17pm

Bar the Lego one they're all mah.

The Ayatolla · 26-11-2014 3:32pm

Can someone here tell me the top 3 or 4 benefits of Plex?

From what I know, it's basically an app for streaming files from your local network? Do you need to have files stored on a laptop/PC and have it switched on?

keano25 · 26-11-2014 3:38pm

The Ayatolla wrote: »

Can someone here tell me the top 3 or 4 benefits of Plex?

From what I know, it's basically an app for streaming files from your local network? Do you need to have files stored on a laptop/PC and have it switched on?

Yes has to be switched on. I have plex, do I use it? No.

tharmor · 27-11-2014 6:42am

keano25 wrote: »

Yes has to be switched on. I have plex, do I use it? No.

Plex is of no use with chromecast to be frank.....why would i want to watch my local files using a streaming device ?? I can directly watch with other modes....

uck51js9zml2yt · 29-11-2014 10:52pm

Found this on hkud
http://www.shopto.net/electronics/sky/NOWTVMOV-now-tv-box-3-month-movies-pass

NOW TV Box + 3 Month Movies Pass

costs £16.95.

sign up for a new account and get your 1 month free trial to give a total of 4 months.

They have entertainment & sports packages as well.

Postage costs to ireland
untracked £3
tracked £6.60

or to PM - free + €3.95.

ctrl-alt-delete · 30-11-2014 12:41am

The Ayatolla wrote: »

Can someone here tell me the top 3 or 4 benefits of Plex?

From what I know, it's basically an app for streaming files from your local network? Do you need to have files stored on a laptop/PC and have it switched on?

One of the best things is that you can get invites to other peoples Plex servers.

johnb25 · 30-11-2014 2:45am

Joo0 wrote: »

http://www.nowtv.com/christmasbox
Missed out myself

By popular demand, NOW TV will be releasing more Festive Boxes in the coming weeks. Limited quantities will be released on 10th and 17th December. Once they’re gone, they’re gone.

DubDJ · 10-12-2014 12:30pm

The limited edition festive boxes have just become available on the website, so for anybody interested I'd try getting an order in soon. They're being sold through a third-party website, but they offer delivery to Ireland so no need to use parcel motel. Also if you want more than one box you don't have to pay delivery for each individual item. Standard delivery is £3, I ordered two different boxes and including delivery it came to a little over €30, was also able to pay with PayPal.

http://www.nowtv.com/christmasbox

keano25 · 11-12-2014 12:47am

Coming up for the 17th for me. Must be gone.

DubDJ · 11-12-2014 1:01am

keano25 wrote: »

Coming up for the 17th for me. Must be gone.

Yeah they sold out pretty quickly.

techdiver · 15-12-2014 1:56pm

Hi,

Can anybody verify whether the channels on Now TV (Sky Sports etc) are in HD?

Cheers.

alanhiggyno1 · 15-12-2014 1:58pm

not hd.

Mallagio · 15-12-2014 1:59pm

techdiver wrote: »

Hi,

Can anybody verify whether the channels on Now TV (Sky Sports etc) are in HD?

Cheers.

720 hd once you have very good broadband.

Extremely good picture

mel123 · 15-12-2014 2:30pm

I am looking at buying this but not sure exactly what can be done with it. The thread is so big I cant get through everything. Can anyone tell me whats its good and no good for? Do I have to pay a monthly subscription? Would this be say similar to my apple tv which is jailbroken if I wanted to modify it?

adm · 15-12-2014 5:12pm

mel123 wrote: »

I am looking at buying this but not sure exactly what can be done with it. The thread is so big I cant get through everything. Can anyone tell me whats its good and no good for? Do I have to pay a monthly subscription? Would this be say similar to my apple tv which is jailbroken if I wanted to modify it?

Basically its for sky TV - you pay a monthly subscription for
entertainment package or sport movies etc..

Its way more restricted than your apple tv. Only certain (roku) apps work on it (google it).
biggest one that doesnt is netflix as it's a competitor.

If you are after a media streamer I wouldnt get this.

iisollie · 15-12-2014 8:14pm

Has anyone succeeded in getting itvplayer to work?
I use trickbyte and can get BBC iplayer working but no joy with itvplayer.
Help or advice much appreciated

Dudda · 15-12-2014 10:50pm

iisollie wrote: »

Has anyone succeeded in getting itvplayer to work?
I use trickbyte and can get BBC iplayer working but no joy with itvplayer.
Help or advice much appreciated

If ITV/utv launch in Ireland on the 1st January as plannef then it might work without having to use any IP tricks. No help right now of course but it's only two weeks away.

The Ayatolla · 15-12-2014 10:54pm

Try unblock-us.

Works for ITVPlayer on all my devices, albeit I don't own a Roku.

adox · 15-12-2014 11:08pm

adm wrote: »

Basically its for sky TV - you pay a monthly subscription for
entertainment package or sport movies etc..

Its way more restricted than your apple tv. Only certain (roku) apps work on it (google it).
biggest one that doesnt is netflix as it's a competitor.

If you are after a media streamer I wouldnt get this.

Side loading Plex makes it an extremely cheap media streamer.

bromley52 · 15-12-2014 11:45pm

adm wrote: »

Basically its for sky TV - you pay a monthly subscription for
entertainment package or sport movies etc..

Its way more restricted than your apple tv. Only certain (roku) apps work on it (google it).
biggest one that doesnt is netflix as it's a competitor.

If you are after a media streamer I wouldnt get this.

Pay about €36/year for overplay.net and this box becomes very useful. Add plex as mentioned and for most this is all you will need as it's so cheap.

tharmor · 15-12-2014 11:51pm

techdiver wrote:

Can anybody verify whether the channels on Now TV (Sky Sports etc) are in HD?

Live channels are not even 720p....its SD.....catch up shows are in hd....

cmos_ajay · 18-12-2014 3:21pm

Hi lads,

Can I install Skype, Yahoo mail on this NOW TV box ?
Please let me know other useful apps. that I can put on this box . What procedure do you follow ?

Thanks.

DubDJ · 18-12-2014 3:51pm

cmos_ajay wrote: »

Hi lads,

Can I install Skype, Yahoo mail on this NOW TV box ?
Please let me know other useful apps. that I can put on this box . What procedure do you follow ?

Thanks.

Nope there's only a set amount of pre-installed apps on the box. Only chance would be to side load the app the same way Plex is installed but there would have to be an app made for the box.

18-12-2014 6:44pm

I have one of these a good while now and it's certainly decent as a media server. But I got a chromecast recently and I'd recommend buying that instead as the screencast function of that is very useful. you can get now tv content on chromecast also via an app afaik. it can also run plex. the chromecast is more expensive but it's on offer sometimes - I got it for £18 from amazon uk.

DubDJ · 18-12-2014 6:46pm

glasso wrote: »

I have one of these a good while now and it's certainly decent as a media server. But I got a chromecast recently and I'd recommend buying that instead as the screencast function of that is very useful. you can get now tv content on chromecast also via an app afaik. it can also run plex.

The YouTube app in the NowTV supports the chrome cast function. Only limited to YouTube, still handy though.

NowTV Box(Roku LT) - £10.00 inc (€11.89) new model £14.99

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