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

Sterling Archer · 10-03-2015 12:57pm

lowbatt07 wrote: »

This thread has developed into a bit of a monster , so going back to basics here if someone might indulge me.

Can I still get a roku box for £10 delivered ? If so could someone post the link pls ?

I understand that sky have disabled some of the roku apps ? Is this true ? I'm most interested in slingbox/sling player - is it possible to put this app on this version of the roku box ?

I picked up another box about a month ago,
You can no longer get the box for £10.00 for Nowtv, you have to purchase a pack for £19.99 -> http://www.nowtv.com/box

I was still able to side-load plex onto the box, and it works fine.
To get the nowtv app on a "standard" roku box you need to be in the uk (or at least have the box think you are there) - I've a roku 3 and could manage to get it to work

Mallagio · 11-03-2015 10:17am

Shane_ef wrote: »

I picked up another box about a month ago,
You can no longer get the box for £10.00 for Nowtv, you have to purchase a pack for £19.99 -> http://www.nowtv.com/box

I was still able to side-load plex onto the box, and it works fine.
To get the nowtv app on a "standard" roku box you need to be in the uk (or at least have the box think you are there) - I've a roku 3 and could manage to get it to work

I've gotten all my boxes with plex on them for less than 15 quid on E-Bay UK.

joe316 · 12-03-2015 1:07pm

Anyone know if its possible to get a longer power cable for this little gem?

Mallagio · 12-03-2015 1:23pm

joe316 wrote: »

Anyone know if its possible to get a longer power cable for this little gem?

Just plug it into an extension lead?

bubric · 12-03-2015 1:31pm

Mallagio wrote: »

Just plug it into an extension lead?

I am using the power lead off this on my Roku anyone know where to get a replacement lead???!

Doodah7 · 12-03-2015 1:49pm

bubric wrote: »

I am using the power lead off this on my Roku anyone know where to get a replacement lead???!

Is it not just a bog-standard 'figure of 8' 'kettle' lead that can be got anywhere?? Try Powercity or any electrical shop.

ucd.1985 · 12-03-2015 1:58pm

tallpaul wrote: »

Is it not just a bog-standard 'figure of 8' 'kettle' lead that can be got anywhere?? Try Powercity or any electrical shop.

Its not

bubric · 12-03-2015 5:07pm

No its not see pic on first page of this thread :-(

styron · 12-03-2015 6:37pm

bubric wrote: »

I am using the power lead off this on my Roku anyone know where to get a replacement lead???!

You're looking at at least £10 - you might be better going again with Sky for £19.99 (+ €3.95 Parcel Motel) at least you'll have the correct power supply, a spare box - and two months movies or 2 day sports passes.

ruth12345 · 12-03-2015 7:56pm

Can someone explain the 2 day sports pass, is it 48 hours coverage over, say 2 months or 2 days coverage?

Doodah7 · 12-03-2015 8:02pm

ruth12345 wrote: »

Can someone explain the 2 day sports pass, is it 48 hours coverage over, say 2 months or 2 days coverage?

They are two individual 24 hour passes that you can activate any time.

JDxtra · 18-03-2015 9:50am

Weird Now TV box issue - I've had mine working for months now. But now it can't see my wifi network. The router is only a few feet away, yet the wireless network is not listed any more. I've made no changes at all on my router and all other devices work just fine.

Mallagio · 18-03-2015 10:16am

JDxtra wrote: »

Weird Now TV box issue - I've had mine working for months now. But now it can't see my wifi network. The router is only a few feet away, yet the wireless network is not listed any more. I've made no changes at all on my router and all other devices work just fine.

Obviously you've rebooted the router I'd imagine?

Go into router and change the channel in the wifi, change it to 2.

Reboot everything on the network.

rogercross · 18-03-2015 11:22am

Id agree with Mallagio.

That happened to one of my boxes too, turned out it didn't like the wifi channel my router was on (i had it set to auto) so I changed the channel to something else manually, searched again and i could once again see my network.

JDxtra · 18-03-2015 12:14pm

OK - thanks guys. Will check router channel later and change it to see if it helps.

JDxtra · 19-03-2015 9:42am

Changing the wireless channel worked! It seems Now TV box did not like channel 13 on my UPC wireless router for some reason.

rogercross · 20-03-2015 12:22pm

Hi JDxtra,

Glad that worked for you, also nice to know exactly which channel the box doesn't like too!!

magentis · 20-03-2015 3:31pm

Can anyone point me towards the cheapest place for one of these at the mo? I tried some of the links and got nothing or out of stock.I have a parcel motel account.

Doodah7 · 20-03-2015 4:19pm

UK Argos have some in stock for delivery. Register parcel Motel as your address and pay by Paypal.

GY A1 · 20-03-2015 6:34pm

tallpaul wrote: »

UK Argos have some in stock for delivery. Register parcel Motel as your address and pay by Paypal.

Will variety pack and bbc player work here ok on that package.

dashcamdanny · 20-03-2015 8:00pm

magentis wrote: »

Can anyone point me towards the cheapest place for one of these at the mo? I tried some of the links and got nothing or out of stock.I have a parcel motel account.

http://www.offeroftheday.co.uk/search.asp?search=now+tv&x=17&y=14

Mallagio · 23-03-2015 11:56am

GY A1 wrote: »

Will variety pack and bbc player work here ok on that package.

Nope you'll need a smartdns. C4 player works fine though.

Mallagio · 23-03-2015 11:57am

Any news on a Now TV 1080 HD box coming out?

rogercross · 24-03-2015 4:07pm

Its supposed to be sometime in 2015, no confirmed date yet though:

http://www.techradar.com/news/television/sky-to-launch-new-now-tv-box-in-2015-will-we-finally-get-hd--1283463

Thar_Cian · 14-04-2015 3:53pm

Is this ever going to officially launch in Ireland? I read reports in this thread that they're cancelling RoI accounts. Is that a widespread issue?

JDxtra · 15-04-2015 8:22pm

No problems here - still going strong.

thewintermute · 16-04-2015 10:16am

I seem to have lost 4OD off my channel listings on the NowTV box now. Anyone else in the same boat?
I subscribed to the NowTV entertainment pack a couple of months back, might be related to that. Good value though.

moodrater · 16-04-2015 11:52am

thewintermute wrote: »

I seem to have lost 4OD off my channel listings on the NowTV box now. Anyone else in the same boat?
I subscribed to the NowTV entertainment pack a couple of months back, might be related to that. Good value though.

4od has been replaced by all 4 different logo

Biffoland · 17-04-2015 9:55pm

I don't know if this has been mentioned already...

I was playing around with my Apple TV today and when I was in the Now TV app on the UK homepage I went to purchase one of the packs. A message came up saying my account was only valid for the Ireland store and I'd be switched to that store. This is the typical message when you try and purchase a service on a different country's homepage. So far so normal. Usually you're sent back to the Ireland homepage if the service isn't available for purchase in Ireland.

This time I was able to make the purchase. A different screen appeared, which offered the movie pack for €12.99 per month. The other packs were: entertainment for €8.99 per month and sports for €8.99 per day.

If for nothing else it's interesting to see the Irish price points for the product and with the current exchange rates these prices are lower than the Sterling prices.

The week of sports isn't available on Apple TV (although is available for purchase through a Now TV account which can be restored through the Apple TV.)

markjh · 17-04-2015 11:09pm

Thar_Cian wrote: »

Is this ever going to officially launch in Ireland? I read reports in this thread that they're cancelling RoI accounts. Is that a widespread issue?

Signed up for an account during the week. Subscribed for entertainment package. Worked for a day and then they shut all down on me. Had to contact them three times to get an answer out of them. Eventually they told me that NowTV is not available in ROI. Funnily enough though, as part of the registration, Republic of Ireland is one of only three options for address.

Why do they allow you the register at all if they are going to turn around and cancel?

Corholio · 17-04-2015 11:11pm

markjh wrote: »

Signed up for an account during the week. Subscribed for entertainment package. Worked for a day and then they shut all down on me. Had to contact them three times to get an answer out of them. Eventually they told me that NowTV is not available in ROI. Funnily enough though, as part of the registration, Republic of Ireland is one of only three options for address.

Why do they allow you the register at all if they are going to turn around and cancel?

Same happened me. It seems the trick is to give Parcel Motel as your billing address if you are getting it delivered there. The address thing is weird alright, it seems they were already preparing to launch here by putting it in, but hasn't come about yet.

Patty O Furniture · 18-04-2015 2:54am

Forgive me for asking, but what does the NowTV box do for you?

Thanks.

tharmor · 18-04-2015 7:26am

Patty O Furniture wrote:

Forgive me for asking, but what does the NowTV box do for you?

It does same thing that nowtv app and chromecast can do for u

!

Patty O Furniture · 19-04-2015 12:08am

tharmor wrote: »

It does same thing that nowtv app and chromecast can do for u !

Thanks, I think i know

although i don't have the nowtv app & never got chromecast working yet:(

ooter · 25-04-2015 9:04pm

Is there another thread on boards for technical issues with the now TV box?
All of a sudden my box won't connect to the internet and if I try to log on to the now TV site to troubleshoot it's telling me to contact some phone number.
Anyone know what the problem might be?

ColdTurkey · 25-04-2015 9:20pm

ooter wrote: »

Is there another thread on boards for technical issues with the now TV box?
All of a sudden my box won't connect to the internet and if I try to log on to the now TV site to troubleshoot it's telling me to contact some phone number.
Anyone know what the problem might be?

Think I read somewhere about
switching to a specific wifi channel as opposed to auto on your modem helps with this. I could be wrong

ooter · 25-04-2015 9:47pm

ColdTurkey wrote: »

Think I read somewhere about
switching to a specific wifi channel as opposed to auto on your modem helps with this. I could be wrong

Cheers,wouldn't have a clue how to do that though.
All other devices are working fine so don't want to mess them up.

Sterling Archer · 26-04-2015 12:35pm

ooter wrote: »

Is there another thread on boards for technical issues with the now TV box?
All of a sudden my box won't connect to the internet and if I try to log on to the now TV site to troubleshoot it's telling me to contact some phone number.
Anyone know what the problem might be?

Is your xbox connecting to the internet at all?
connecting to xbox live?

corks finest · 26-04-2015 2:49pm

vibe666 wrote: »

this might work to change the DNS on the NowTV without having to permanently change the DNS on your router. Not sure how I feel about sending ALL my DNS requests for everything on my network to Unotelly or whoever.

http://www.avforums.com/threads/guide-roku-changing-netflix-regions-quick-and-easy.1776722/

ref vpn rtc,i got betternet vpn,free,and am able to get i player etc on p.c.,speedtested it via ookla,lost about 25percent on down load,but ok for watching tv etc

ooter · 26-04-2015 5:45pm

Shane_ef wrote: »

Is your xbox connecting to the internet at all?
connecting to xbox live?

Don't have an Xbox but the ps4 is connecting fine.

Sterling Archer · 26-04-2015 5:50pm

ooter wrote: »

Don't have an Xbox but the ps4 is connecting fine.

I completely read your post wrong ha.. make it forget the network and try to reconnect

ooter · 26-04-2015 6:01pm

Shane_ef wrote: »

I completely read your post wrong ha.. make it forget the network and try to reconnect

Yeah I tried that,still not connecting.

rogercross · 27-04-2015 1:23am

I ran into this problem a while ago, the now tv box doesn't like wifi channel 13, if your router is set to auto its possible its presently on channel 13

Setting your wireless channel to manual and selecting a channel other than 13 could fix it.

If you're unsure how to do this you could just try rebooting your router, this may make it switch channels on its own to something else when it comes back up, no guarantee though.

ComfortKid · 02-05-2015 1:23am

If I was to buy this thing could I just use the tethering on my phone and watch YouTube on my TV via the box and an AV cable? I'd be happy to pay that price just to be able to watch YouTube alone. I have Sky subscription so dont need any of the channels or players.

ComfortKid · 02-05-2015 1:23am

If I was to buy this thing could I just use the tethering on my phone and watch YouTube on my TV via the box and an AV cable? I'd be happy to pay that price just to be able to watch YouTube alone. I have Sky subscription so dont need any of the channels or players.

dabbler2004 · 02-05-2015 6:34am

ComfortKid wrote: »

If I was to buy this thing could I just use the tethering on my phone and watch YouTube on my TV via the box and an AV cable? I'd be happy to pay that price just to be able to watch YouTube alone. I have Sky subscription so dont need any of the channels or players.

There is a YouTube channel (app) available on the Roku store which you can install but it's very clunky to use. you can as you asked cast YouTube from your phone to the box and watch it on the TV. Go into settings on the YouTube channel first and look for 'pair device' I think to link it to your phone.

ComfortKid · 02-05-2015 9:15am

dabbler2004 wrote:

There is a YouTube channel (app) available on the Roku store which you can install but it's very clunky to use. you can as you asked cast YouTube from your phone to the box and watch it on the TV. Go into settings on the YouTube channel first and look for 'pair device' I think to link it to your phone.

Lovley, thanks. Going to order this Tuesday so. Seems a handy gadget for staying in hotels too plenty movies if I sign up.

dashcamdanny · 02-05-2015 10:27am

Yeah , its great that way.

You can cast from your phone. Its so much better to use the phone to search youtube as the app on the box is quite cumbersome to select letters and words

ComfortKid · 02-05-2015 11:09am

dashcamdanny wrote:

You can cast from your phone. Its so much better to use the phone to search youtube as the app on the box is quite cumbersome to select letters and words

Not sure how to cast? Dont even know what it is. I play the video on my phones YouTube app and it comes out on tv? Sorry, im stuck in the 80s technology wise

phobia2011 · 02-05-2015 11:59am

how do i get one of these?

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

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