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mackersdublin

coylemj wrote: »

Just got an unsolicited e-mail from Now TV about their sports options and they appear to have withdrawn the €15 Sky Sports 7 day pass which I have purchased in the past to watch golf tournaments. Which typically run from Thursday to Sunday.

It's now either €10 for a one day pass or you sign up for a one month pass for €39 with auto renewal.

https://www.nowtv.com/ie/sports-overview confirms the removal of the 7 day pass for both Sky Sports and Sports Extra. The only options are Day or Month passes

Delta2113

They recently charged me €15 when I was supposed to have 14 days FREE trial. I eventually got the €15 back but I had to fight for it.

coylemj

mackersdublin wrote: »

https://www.nowtv.com/ie/sports-overview confirms the removal of the 7 day pass for both Sky Sports and Sports Extra. The only options are Day or Month passes

Switched on my NOW TV box last night, I have no active passes or subscriptions and wasn't sure if I could watch anything.

So I clicked on Sky Sports News (which is free to view on Virgin Media) and it asked me to sign up for a Sky Sports pass. The options I was offered included day (€10), month (€39) and a 7 day pass for €15

icdg

coylemj wrote: »

Switched on my NOW TV box last night, I have no active passes or subscriptions and wasn't sure if I could watch anything.

So I clicked on Sky Sports News (which is free to view on Virgin Media) and it asked me to sign up for a Sky Sports pass.

It’s not really “free to view” though. You have to pay at least €20pm for a basic VM Freedom TV sub and equally on Sky you need to have at least the basic Sky Signature pack to access. Now TV doesn’t have a mandatory basic tier which is its best feature tbh.

Dodge

mackersdublin wrote: »

https://www.nowtv.com/ie/sports-overview confirms the removal of the 7 day pass for both Sky Sports and Sports Extra. The only options are Day or Month passes

Looks like they’ve removed the mobile only pass. Think was €7 per day or similar? Never used it myself but I believe it couldn’t be cast etc

coylemj

icdg wrote: »

It’s not really “free to view” though. You have to pay at least €20pm for a basic VM Freedom TV sub and equally on Sky you need to have at least the basic Sky Signature pack to access. Now TV doesn’t have a mandatory basic tier which is its best feature tbh.

What I meant by 'free to view on VM' was that Sky Sports News is included in any VM TV package. So you don't have to pay extra to watch it.

Which is why I thought they'd let me watch it on Now TV without any package or subscription but no joy.

Can you watch anything on Now TV if you have no active pass or subscription?

mackersdublin

coylemj wrote: »

Can you watch anything on Now TV if you have no active pass or subscription?

No, but you can watch RTE Player and other apps if you have the Stick/Box version of Now TV

Dodge

coylemj wrote: »

What I meant by 'free to view on VM' was that Sky Sports News is included in any VM TV package. So you don't have to pay extra to watch it.

Which is why I thought they'd let me watch it on Now TV without any package or subscription but no joy.

Can you watch anything on Now TV if you have no active pass or subscription?

How would now tv/sky know that you have virgin tv?

Now TV is strictly a subscription service.

decor58

coylemj wrote: »

What I meant by 'free to view on VM' was that Sky Sports News is included in any VM TV package. So you don't have to pay extra to watch it.

Which is why I thought they'd let me watch it on Now TV without any package or subscription but no joy.

Can you watch anything on Now TV if you have no active pass or subscription?

Nothing live, except Sky news, as said RTE, VM, All4, players, plus YouTube.

icdg

I really don’t get the equation of paying nothing to Now TV with paying €20pm to Virgin. They aren’t comparable at all. With cable, if you pay nothing, you get nothing. Same with Now TV (except that you can stream Sky News, which you can stream for free on YouTube).

coylemj

icdg wrote: »

I really don’t get the equation of paying nothing to Now TV with paying €20pm to Virgin. They aren’t comparable at all. With cable, if you pay nothing, you get nothing. Same with Now TV (except that you can stream Sky News, which you can stream for free on YouTube).

I can get Sky News for free on my Apple TV box, I was just wondering if Sky Sports News was similarly free on Now TV. Clearly it isn't.

Sorry for asking.

mackersdublin

decor58 wrote: »

Nothing live, except Sky news, as said RTE, VM, All4, players, plus YouTube.

Thanks for that. I never realised Sky News was available to watch without the Entertainment Pass

Sorry if this has been asked before. I have the Now TV app on my Samsung TV. It has started to stop working, I'm getting error messages or just blank screens.
If I reboot the internet, it sometimes works. I removed the app & reinstalled it, but the same thing keeps happening.
Any ideas?

IrishHomer

bubblypop wrote: »

Sorry if this has been asked before. I have the Now TV app on my Samsung TV. It has started to stop working, I'm getting error messages or just blank screens.
If I reboot the internet, it sometimes works. I removed the app & reinstalled it, but the same thing keeps happening.
Any ideas?

Samsung smart TVs are extremely unreliable for apps.

Try it on your other devices I reckon you may need to abandon the Samsung app and use an alternative now tv stick or a Chromecast

DI Dwyer

bubblypop wrote: »

Sorry if this has been asked before. I have the Now TV app on my Samsung TV. It has started to stop working, I'm getting error messages or just blank screens.
If I reboot the internet, it sometimes works. I removed the app & reinstalled it, but the same thing keeps happening.
Any ideas?

My problem with unreliable NOW reception was wi-fi related.
While I wasn't having any wi-fi reception problems with other devices, the wi-fi signal wasn't strong enough for the NOW stick. I installed a slave modem close to where I use the NOW device and it has been fine since.

NuMarvel

The Entertainment Pass and the Cinema Pass are both 40% off at the moment; €9 per month each for 6 months. Offer ends on 30th September.

And the monthly sports passes are both 50% off at the moment; Sports Pass is €19.50 per month for 3 months, and Sports Extra is €17 per month for 3 months. Offer ends 11th October.

All offers available to new customers, or existing customers without an active pass.

https://www.nowtv.com/ie/shopbundles

Butson

NuMarvel wrote: »

The Entertainment Pass and the Cinema Pass are both 40% off at the moment; €9 per month each for 6 months. Offer ends on 30th September.

And the monthly sports passes are both 50% off at the moment; Sports Pass is €19.50 per month for 3 months, and Sports Extra is €17 per month for 3 months. Offer ends 11th October.

All offers available to new customers, or existing customers without an active pass.

https://www.nowtv.com/ie/shopbundles

Cant go wrong with that to be fair.

decor58

NuMarvel wrote: »

The Entertainment Pass and the Cinema Pass are both 40% off at the moment; €9 per month each for 6 months. Offer ends on 30th September.

And the monthly sports passes are both 50% off at the moment; Sports Pass is €19.50 per month for 3 months, and Sports Extra is €17 per month for 3 months. Offer ends 11th October.

All offers available to new customers, or existing customers without an active pass.

https://www.nowtv.com/ie/shopbundles

I had Sky movies some time ago, I got an email recently offering 2 months for 10€ (5€ pm).

redoctober

decor58 wrote: »

I had Sky movies some time ago, I got an email recently offering 2 months for 10€ (5€ pm).

Just cancelled cinema pass and was offered 7.50 per month. I thought that was pretty good. Your offer trumps that!

Butson

Got an email offer there of 2 months Sky Sports pass for €30.

Won't get much better than that (legally)

kooga

Butson wrote: »

Got an email offer there of 2 months Sky Sports pass for €30.

Won't get much better than that (legally)

https://www.nowtv.com/ie/watch-sky-sports-online?gclid=Cj0KCQjwwOz6BRCgARIsAKEG4FXqDWAkqnZJqwepsTtCWFIegu1e_snzw5xuZvl20LbRQQsbuh_LtZ4aAj4PEALw_wcB#ib-section-section-2

on the now tv website its showing €19.50 pm for 3 months

Butson

kooga wrote: »

https://www.nowtv.com/ie/watch-sky-sports-online?gclid=Cj0KCQjwwOz6BRCgARIsAKEG4FXqDWAkqnZJqwepsTtCWFIegu1e_snzw5xuZvl20LbRQQsbuh_LtZ4aAj4PEALw_wcB#ib-section-section-2

on the now tv website its showing €19.50 pm for 3 months

Yes, but got an email from them with the offer in it, enter a code on the website.
Must be for people who don't currently have an active pass.
€30 upfront for 2 months.

doogb

Hi,

Since last week when I try cast NowTV from my phone to Chromecast I keep getting
"Viewing Stopped Something's gone wrong. if the problem persists, contact Online Support Team".

I can watch NowTV on my phone and other devices without any issues.
I can watch on Netflix, Youbube on the Chromecast without any issues.

I've reinstalled NowTV on my phone, did a factory reset on my Chromecast and rebooted the modem without any joy.

To get NowTV to cast to Chromecast I need to disable WiFi on the main laptop at home. There are no conflicting IP's on the network.

Anyone experience any similar issues and get it reolved ?

Thanks in advance

Johnboy1951

To get NowTV to cast to Chromecast I need to disable WiFi on the main laptop at home. There are no conflicting IP's on the network.

Maybe try selecting a different wifi channel to see if things would improve for the Chromecast.

byte

doogb wrote: »

Hi,

Since last week when I try cast NowTV from my phone to Chromecast I keep getting
"Viewing Stopped Something's gone wrong. if the problem persists, contact Online Support Team".

I can watch NowTV on my phone and other devices without any issues.
I can watch on Netflix, Youbube on the Chromecast without any issues.

I've reinstalled NowTV on my phone, did a factory reset on my Chromecast and rebooted the modem without any joy.

To get NowTV to cast to Chromecast I need to disable WiFi on the main laptop at home. There are no conflicting IP's on the network.

Anyone experience any similar issues and get it reolved ?

Thanks in advance

Yes!

It's what brought me in here, to see if I'm the only one!

I have contacted NowTV CS, and got this response...

Thanks for contacting NOW TV.

With regards to your query.

I would like to inform you that this is an ongoing issue.

Not to worry, I will forward this case to the higher technical team to check and help you further.

You will be contacted via email at the earliest.

Meanwhile I would request you to access the content using the supported devices.

Check on this link to know more on supported devices : https://help.nowtv.com/ie/article/what-devices-can-i-use-to-watch-now-tv

It's not working on two different generation Chromecasts that I have, same error on both.
I'm still waiting for the "higher technical team" to get back to me, I'd say I'll be waiting a long time!

doogb

I managed to get NowTV to cast to Chromecast by going into "Device Setting" on the Chromecast on turning on "Display" Use 50Hz HDMI mode.

Hope this helps.

BurnUp78

Not a great start for now TV.. Subscribed to the sky sports pack for 17 a month at 12pm today and its already crashed twice and some buffering. I have 500mb virgin media broadband and I'm watching on my high end PC so it can't be problems on my end..

byte

doogb wrote: »

I managed to get NowTV to cast to Chromecast by going into "Device Setting" on the Chromecast on turning on "Display" Use 50Hz HDMI mode.

Hope this helps.

Fair play that you got it working. I've tried it on one Chromecast, but it's the same problem.

I will try the other one tomorrow and maybe some other things and see what happens.

I had considered removing the paired device and re-pairing it, but I think they only allow one pairing change per month.

At least I now know that Now TV can still cast for some, so there's hope

byte

Lo and behold, after replying to the email to say that their "higher technical team" never got back to me to help me further, I try again this evening, and it works!

I had no response to the email, but it's casting now, thankfully!

redoctober

Has anyone cancelled the 19€ offer and got a lower one for sky sports?