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

ChuckProphet · 11-09-2014 10:45am

RustyP wrote: »

Yeah it's as simple as that! I'm going to buy a pass myself for the Ryder Cup

yep...all he'll need to do is put in his wifi password...he won't even need to login to your nowtv account as it'll login automatically.

hopefully he has a decent broadband connection with no download limits - just something to beware of!!

Doodah7 · 11-09-2014 11:05am

The Ryder Cup was the exact reason I got the Now TV box. The box, a three month entertainment pass and a weekly sports pass is still cheaper than one month's subscription!!

Having Sky Sports News in another room away from the main Sky box is another plus for me!

WHL · 11-09-2014 12:51pm

Thanks for the replies guys. He said that his broadband speeds are good. Good point to ask him about the download limit - I have forgotten about things like that since moving provider myself

dahat · 11-09-2014 1:02pm

Can you access existing sky sub through these boxes? Likely answer is no but half hoping you can!

ChuckProphet · 11-09-2014 1:47pm

WHL wrote: »

Thanks for the replies guys. He said that his broadband speeds are good. Good point to ask him about the download limit - I have forgotten about things like that since moving provider myself

I loan mine to the in-laws sometimes who I think have 1MB Eircom and it's fine but they've a 10gb monthly limit so could go over that quite easily

adox · 11-09-2014 1:49pm

dahat wrote: »

Can you access existing sky sub through these boxes? Likely answer is no but half hoping you can!

You cant.

vibe666 · 11-09-2014 3:46pm

rochestown wrote: »

It being a UK box does it require a UK IP address for it to work with the 24 hour sports passes? Thanks...

as i've already said....

vibe666 wrote: »

Nope.

CoffeeAnathema · 13-09-2014 2:19pm

Hi,

I'm just checking whether you absolutely need this box to get a Sports DayPass, as the website seems willing to let me pay for one, in full cognisance of the facts that I don't have a NowTV box and am in Ireland.

Also, I'm not sure this works out any better than a subscription. Say I just want to watch the Pro12 matches. There are 69 match days (22 rounds of 3 plus 3 for the playoffs). At the current rate (which doesn't hold out until November btw) of 6.99GBP - about €8.77 - that makes over €600. Even a 7-day pass (about €13.78 for 24 weeks) works out at 330.72. That's not much better than a Sky Sports subscription for the same 9 months, especially if you take the box and its reshipping through Parcelmotel into account. Am I right, or am I missing something here?

Either way, I'm not looking forward to giving more money to Sky (has to be said). The subscription will mostly go to waste, because I'm not interested in much more than rugby

DubDJ · 13-09-2014 7:17pm

CoffeeAnathema wrote: »

Hi,

I'm just checking whether you absolutely need this box to get a Sports DayPass, as the website seems willing to let me pay for one, in full cognisance of the facts that I don't have a NowTV box and am in Ireland.

Also, I'm not sure this works out any better than a subscription. Say I just want to watch the Pro12 matches. There are 69 match days (22 rounds of 3 plus 3 for the playoffs). At the current rate (which doesn't hold out until November btw) of 6.99GBP - about €8.77 - that makes over €600. Even a 7-day pass (about €13.78 for 24 weeks) works out at 330.72. That's not much better than a Sky Sports subscription for the same 9 months, especially if you take the box and its reshipping through Parcelmotel into account. Am I right, or am I missing something here?

Either way, I'm not looking forward to giving more money to Sky (has to be said). The subscription will mostly go to waste, because I'm not interested in much more than rugby

You don't need the box really, they offer apps for mobile and Xbox among others. So you can still watch without the box. I think the apps are region locked to the UK though.

Most people will see the benefit by only ordering Sky Sports for certain matches or say for the Ryder Cup etc. Instead of paying for the whole season you have the advantage of picking and choosing what you want.

The same goes for movies of TV shows. Say your a Game of Thrones fan, you could order the TV pass for the 3 months of the show and then cancel after that.

rochestown · 14-09-2014 12:16pm

DubDJ wrote: »

You don't need the box really, they offer apps for mobile and Xbox among others. So you can still watch without the box. I think the apps are region locked to the UK though.

Most people will see the benefit by only ordering Sky Sports for certain matches or say for the Ryder Cup etc. Instead of paying for the whole season you have the advantage of picking and choosing what you want.

The same goes for movies of TV shows. Say your a Game of Thrones fan, you could order the TV pass for the 3 months of the show and then cancel after that.

Is there a box that will allow Sky Sports and BT Sports to be ordered on a 24 hour basis?

toby2111 · 14-09-2014 1:05pm

Is there anywere I can get cheap sports passes for Now tv box? Just want it for the Ryder Cup. Looked on ebay, not great.

Joo0 · 14-09-2014 1:29pm

toby2111 wrote: »

Is there anywere I can get cheap sports passes for Now tv box? Just want it for the Ryder Cup. Looked on ebay, not great.

Id say pick up a SkySports week pass if you want to catch all the action works out at about 15 euro.

toby2111 · 14-09-2014 2:25pm

Sounds good. Do I get that week pass from the Now tv site? And do they email the code straight away?

DubDJ · 14-09-2014 4:28pm

toby2111 wrote: »

Sounds good. Do I get that week pass from the Now tv site? And do they email the code straight away?

No email, it gets added to your account and when you use the NowTV app you can activate it and start watching.

toby2111 · 14-09-2014 8:02pm

Can only see Sport Day Passes for £6.99 on Now tv site , no sign of the week pass....

styron · 14-09-2014 8:16pm

http://www.nowtv.com/sports

Joo0 · 15-09-2014 9:58pm

Sports passes are good but the service has gone down for important events. (Major games, Prem league last day etc). The lack of HD could be another turn off for others but thanks to NOWTV ive enjoyed Skysports very cheaply for the past year.

selfbuilder1 · 15-09-2014 10:29pm

Does anyone experience a lot of buffering on now tv? The iplayer etc works fine but the now tv app buffers a lot.

Joo0 · 15-09-2014 10:30pm

selfbuilder1 wrote: »

Does anyone experience a lot of buffering on now tv? The iplayer etc works fine but the now tv app buffers a lot.

The live channels?

selfbuilder1 · 15-09-2014 10:40pm

No it buffers on the box sets as well

dashcamdanny · 15-09-2014 10:42pm

Very rarely does mine buffer.

Maybe if im downloading a few torrents at the same time.

moodrater · 15-09-2014 11:25pm

selfbuilder1 wrote: »

Does anyone experience a lot of buffering on now tv? The iplayer etc works fine but the now tv app buffers a lot.

Yes I gave up on it, There would be no issue with netflix, iplayer, 4od. Nowtv would either buffer like bejaysus and/or switch to 200mb divx quality. Tons of posts on their forum of people with 100meg+ connections and buffering. Its not a connection or QOS issue seems to be supersensitive to jitter and keeps renegotiating the bit rate.

TheInspector · 16-09-2014 11:36am

Has anyone else noticed the problem with 4OD when you click on collections and try to view the ch4 shorts (the very first one) the box claps up and returns you to the channels page?

Everything on 4OD works fine just the short collection.

vibe666 · 16-09-2014 11:38am

the only 4OD issue i have is all the mountains of the same fecking adverts over and over and not being able to skip them, even if you're coming back to a program you have semi-watched previously.

EDIT: aha!

managed to cut down on 4OD ads by about 90% by blacklisting two addresses on my router.

"realmedia.channel4.com" and "216.120.238.16"

now I just get a single short ad for another 4OD show and sometimes another quick (5 second) one if the show is sponsored by someone (like webuyanycar for come dine with me). much more watchable now!

if you don't have a router that allows you to blacklist certain URL's or IP's then touch sh!t! (just kidding!

). You could probably do it by using openDNS on your router and putting filters in your openDNS config.

as I find other stuff that is full of ads I'll include those too, although I do already have a pretty comprehensive ad/spam/phishing blocking script on the router, but you need to have the ability to add scripts to your router config (which usually means using a 3rd party firmware like tomato, ddwrt or openwrt) for it to work, so it's not a universal solution for everyone, sorry.

keano25 · 17-09-2014 6:57pm

is sports in hd on this?

Moyglish · 18-09-2014 12:25pm

Thinking of getting one of these (and slowly reading through this entire thread) but I have a quick question,

When I buy a monthly pass for movies, does the month start from the date purchased, or do I have to input a code to validate it and the months viewing starts from them?

I'm going away on holidays in a fortnight and wondering if i can hold back on starting my months viewing until I get back from hols, if I buy the box and monthly pass today will I have any issues? There wont be any problem starting my months viewing til I get home from hols will there?

Thanks

rogercross · 18-09-2014 12:45pm

I'd be very interested in implementing the adblocking on my router.

I'm running a DD-WRT router as my main router with a UPC router in bridge mode.

Would you mind sharing the full commands you have that are allowing 4OD ad's to be blocked?

If you don't mind me asking the "ad/spam/phishing blocking script" you mentioned, what else do you have in there? :-)

vibe666 wrote: »

the only 4OD issue i have is all the mountains of the same fecking adverts over and over and not being able to skip them, even if you're coming back to a program you have semi-watched previously.

EDIT: aha!

managed to cut down on 4OD ads by about 90% by blacklisting two addresses on my router.

"realmedia.channel4.com" and "216.120.238.16"

now I just get a single short ad for another 4OD show and sometimes another quick (5 second) one if the show is sponsored by someone (like webuyanycar for come dine with me). much more watchable now!

if you don't have a router that allows you to blacklist certain URL's or IP's then touch sh!t! (just kidding! ). You could probably do it by using openDNS on your router and putting filters in your openDNS config.

as I find other stuff that is full of ads I'll include those too, although I do already have a pretty comprehensive ad/spam/phishing blocking script on the router, but you need to have the ability to add scripts to your router config (which usually means using a 3rd party firmware like tomato, ddwrt or openwrt) for it to work, so it's not a universal solution for everyone, sorry.

bromley52 · 18-09-2014 1:25pm

Moyglish wrote: »

Thinking of getting one of these (and slowly reading through this entire thread) but I have a quick question,

When I buy a monthly pass for movies, does the month start from the date purchased, or do I have to input a code to validate it and the months viewing starts from them?

I'm going away on holidays in a fortnight and wondering if i can hold back on starting my months viewing until I get back from hols, if I buy the box and monthly pass today will I have any issues? There wont be any problem starting my months viewing til I get home from hols will there?

Thanks

365 days for the sports passes. Not sure about the others. Would made a nice stocking filler.

http://help.nowtv.com/article/Save-sports-pass-for-later

bromley52 · 18-09-2014 1:55pm

vibe666 wrote: »

the only 4OD issue i have is all the mountains of the same fecking adverts over and over and not being able to skip them, even if you're coming back to a program you have semi-watched previously.

EDIT: aha!

managed to cut down on 4OD ads by about 90% by blacklisting two addresses on my router.

"realmedia.channel4.com" and "216.120.238.16"

now I just get a single short ad for another 4OD show and sometimes another quick (5 second) one if the show is sponsored by someone (like webuyanycar for come dine with me). much more watchable now!

if you don't have a router that allows you to blacklist certain URL's or IP's then touch sh!t! (just kidding! ). You could probably do it by using openDNS on your router and putting filters in your openDNS config.

as I find other stuff that is full of ads I'll include those too, although I do already have a pretty comprehensive ad/spam/phishing blocking script on the router, but you need to have the ability to add scripts to your router config (which usually means using a 3rd party firmware like tomato, ddwrt or openwrt) for it to work, so it's not a universal solution for everyone, sorry.

Would you mind sharing the script you are using as I would love to add it to my dd-wrt router?
Thanks in advance.

vibe666 · 18-09-2014 1:57pm

rogercross wrote: »

I'd be very interested in implementing the adblocking on my router.

I'm running a DD-WRT router as my main router with a UPC router in bridge mode.

Would you mind sharing the full commands you have that are allowing 4OD ad's to be blocked?

If you don't mind me asking the "ad/spam/phishing blocking script" you mentioned, what else do you have in there? :-)

here's the ad-blocking script from my router.

i have it in the "WAN Up" script section of the router config, so to refresh it (which takes a couple of minutes) all I need to do is release and renew the WAN IP for a couple of seconds from the main config page to reload it, which is handy.

you can also edit it with a few options like using a static image in place of ads so you can see what is actually getting blocked instead of them just being missing and that kind of thing, but I don't bother.

I use the tomato firmware on a linksys e3000, not dd-wrt so yours may be slightly different, but as far as i know it also has an option for adding various scripts, so it *should* work but i'd follow the url at the top of the script (http://goo.gl/mhykQ) to the forum thread about it if i were you, just to confirm before you try it.

## ALL-U-NEED Ad Blocking v3.9e
## http://goo.gl/mhykQ
## Original script by YAQUI
## Updated by ~nephelim~, Syl, jochen, groosh, ng12345, ray123, mstombs
## base64 decoder by Danny Chouinard's

sleep 10

ADB="/tmp/ADBLOCK.sh"
{
cat <<'ENDF' >$ADB
#!/bin/sh

OPTIMISE="Y"
GETS="1 2 3 4 5 6"
TRIM_BEGIN=1
S1="http://www.malwaredomainlist.com/hostslist/hosts.txt"
S2="http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=hosts&mimetype=plaintext"
S3="http://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.asp"
S4="http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt"
S5="http://sysctl.org/cameleon/hosts"
S6="http://hosts-file.net/hphosts-partial.asp"

USEWHITELIST="Y" # N/Y/R for remote
WURL="http://example.com/whitelist.txt"
WHITE="intel.com""facebook.com"
BLACK="realmedia.channel4.com" "216.120.238.16"

USEPIXELSERV="N"
PXL_IP=192.168.1.2
PXL_EXE="/tmp/pixelserv"
PXL_URL="http://example.com/pixelserv"

UPLOAD="N"
FTP_SERVER="example.com"
FTP_USER=""
FTP_PASS=""
FTP_PORT=21
FTP_PATH="/gen"

ADD_CONF="N"
USEHOSTS="N"
ROUTER="Y"

NIP="0.0.0.0"

ENDF
}

UPDATE="Y"
AUP() {
if [[ "$UPDATE" == "Y" ]] ; then
if [[ "$(cru l | grep AdUpd | cut -d '#' -f2)" != "AdUpd" ]] ; then
cru a AdUpd "0 4 * * * $ADB"
fi
fi
}

#### DO NOT EDIT BELOW ####

b64="openssl enc -base64 -d"
[[ "$(echo WQ==|$b64)" != "Y" ]] && b64="b64" 

b64(){
awk 'BEGIN{b64="ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/"}
{for(i=1;i<=length($0);i++){c=index(b64,substr($0,i,1));if(c--)
for(b=0;b<6;b++){o=o*2+int(c/32);c=(c*2)%64;if(++obc==8){if(o)
{printf"%c",o}else{system("echo -en \"\\0\"")}obc=o=0}}}}';}

{
cat <<'ENDF'| $b64 |gunzip >>$ADB
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ENDF
}

chmod 775 $ADB
$ADB
AUP

I also have an entry in DNSmasq to assign specific DNS servers to the now TV.

just replace XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX with the MAC address of your nowTV(s) for iplayer etc.

remove any unused extra lines, or add new ones as required depending on your number of devices and any DNS requests from devices in the list (but only those devices) will get sent to the DNS servers of your choice. the ones listed there are for unblock-us, but change them to whatever you prefer using.

this will not affect DNS requests for any other device on your network, so you can keep using your regular DNS for other hosts.

# Assign alternate DNS for select hosts
# Set Specific Clients to be affected
dhcp-mac=set:altdns,XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX #PC 1
dhcp-mac=set:altdns,YY:YY:YY:YY:YY:YY #PC 2

# Set Alternate DNS
dhcp-option=tag:altdns,option:dns-server,208.122.23.22,208.122.23.23

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