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Tigerandahalf

I see Now TV have added streaming options for their sports documentaries and other stuff.
The Lions rugby tour documentaries are up on it.

FRIENDO

Tigerandahalf wrote: »

I see Now TV have added streaming options for their sports documentaries and other stuff.
The Lions rugby tour documentaries are up on it.

Yes, very good

namloc1980

Months later and there's still no NowTV app on Google TV Chromecast. So slow.

icdg

Meanwhile, it seems Now TV is about to change its name to just “Now”. As you do.

icdg

icdg wrote: »

Meanwhile, it seems Now TV is about to change its name to just “Now”. As you do.

So this launched today and apart from the name change itself it’s an interesting one. All the garish colours and branding is gone in favour of a dark colour scheme. Seems to be a bit of a move more upmarket.

Also, passes are now “memberships”.

flexcon

Whats the rules for buying the UK sub and streaming in Ireland? Is the 60 day rule still there for roaming or has that now gone since Uk left Eu?

cause in the UK, Sky Sports Pack + boost split between 3 people (2 devices each, 3 concurrent streams) works out at €13 a month. Which seems doable.....like really doable.

IrishHomer

I messaged Now TV Ireland few days ago asking about full HD and they said none available til end of the year.

Sleeper12

flexcon wrote:

Whats the rules for buying the UK sub and streaming in Ireland? Is the 60 day rule still there for roaming or has that now gone since Uk left Eu?

Unfortunately that stopped on 31st December. They are no longer in the EU and don't have any rights to broadcast UK content in the eu

flexcon

Sleeper12 wrote: »

Unfortunately that stopped on 31st December. They are no longer in the EU and don't have any rights to broadcast UK content in the eu

Cheers

SmartDNS it is then. the UK plans are cheaper and they come with Boost for 1080. It's a no brainer

Delta2113

Got an app update yesterday for my LG Tv for Now - no messing around.

Nigzcurran

flexcon wrote: »

Cheers

SmartDNS it is then. the UK plans are cheaper and they come with Boost for 1080. It's a no brainer

Is that similar to a vpn?

flexcon

Nigzcurran wrote: »

Is that similar to a vpn?

It's better for streaming content. Smart DNS give you access to the Geo blocked content but doesn't send the stream through a VPN which can be slow and cause the picture to be blurry.

Also - there is no need to send the stream through a VPN it's a waste.

I'm not sure of the rules for posting links to providers so I wont here - PM me if you want more info

icdg

To be clear there is absolutely no discussion of circumventing regional restrictions here

I will add though, that before the Portability Regulation was a thing, Sky had no problem with Sky Go customers accessing their content in both the U.K. and Ireland with appropriate adjustments (so you would see the U.K. line up in the U.K.). Now hadn’t been launched then but they could have went back to that situation and rights wouldn’t have been an issue (at least they weren’t back then and it was only a couple of years ago).

Johnboy1951

Nigzcurran wrote: »

Is that similar to a vpn?

I use
https://www.smartdnsproxy.com/
for VPN and it includes their smart dns.

icdg

Johnboy1951 banned for 48 hours for ignoring warning in previous post

namloc1980

Delta2113 wrote: »

Got an app update yesterday for my LG Tv for Now - no messing around.

Shame they couldn't launch a Google TV app. And also no 1080p HD option in Ireland.

WoollyRedHat

I was able to toggle to 1080HD in my settings. Is it a case that the option is there but not the functionality?

NuMarvel

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

I was able to toggle to 1080HD in my settings. Is it a case that the option is there but not the functionality?

Devices can be set to stream 1080 (even NowTV branded devices), but the service/app itself only streams up to 720 no matter what setting the device has.

Sleeper12

Boost feature is supposed to be coming to Ireland later in the year I think

Equium

FRIENDO wrote: »

Just noticed the Now TV app Has arrived on the Irish Fire stick
Must be still work in progress, I could log in and view perfect but the app won't add to my app list or recently viewed.
But good to see it on the Fire stick.

Out of interest, is your Firestick/Amazon account using a UK or Irish address? I have downloaded the NOW app but it won't log in. I just get sent back to the 'sign in to see your details' page.

FRIENDO

Equium wrote: »

Out of interest, is your Firestick/Amazon account using a UK or Irish address? I have downloaded the NOW app but it won't log in. I just get sent back to the 'sign in to see your details' page.

Probably best to message Amazon on chat, they will sort it out for you, think mine is set for UK

Nigzcurran

FRIENDO wrote: »

Probably best to message Amazon on chat, they will sort it out for you, think mine is set for UK

Mine is set to ireland and installed no problemo

feargantae

namloc1980 wrote: »

Shame they couldn't launch a Google TV app. And also no 1080p HD option in Ireland.

If someone has a Sony Android TV and can extract the NowTV apk for Éire then there's a fella on Reddit who can mod it to work on Google TV. He did the same for the English and Italian NowTV. Just us left!!

brianc27

Equium wrote: »

Out of interest, is your Firestick/Amazon account using a UK or Irish address? I have downloaded the NOW app but it won't log in. I just get sent back to the 'sign in to see your details' page.

Similar issue with myself, app actually freezes when I log in, says video can't load then brings me back to the log in page and the app freezes then, strange one, my address is set to ireland

FRIENDO

brianc27 wrote: »

Similar issue with myself, app actually freezes when I log in, says video can't load then brings me back to the log in page and the app freezes then, strange one, my address is set to ireland

I had to message Amazon to get the stick sorted on set up.

Initially Prime Video wouldn't work, they had to make some adjustments, Now has worked perfect since its arrival.

brianc27

I was on to amazon earlier, they couldn't get it working either, had me do a full factory reset, still didn't work, but then after the factory reset with all my settings now messed up I decided to add a launcher to the firestick rather then use the stock launcher and then the Now app worked, no idea if that's because I'm using a launcher or not but its the only time it's worked after numerous cache/data clears, re-installs and a factory reset

FRIENDO

brianc27 wrote: »

I was on to amazon earlier, they couldn't get it working either, had me do a full factory reset, still didn't work, but then after the factory reset with all my settings now messed up I decided to add a launcher to the firestick rather then use the stock launcher and then the Now app worked, no idea if that's because I'm using a launcher or not but its the only time it's worked after numerous cache/data clears, re-installs and a factory reset

Hopefully that's you sorted now ðŸ‘

Equium

brianc27 wrote: »

Similar issue with myself, app actually freezes when I log in, says video can't load then brings me back to the log in page and the app freezes then, strange one, my address is set to ireland

I got mine sorted today by changing location of device to Ireland. I was set as UK based due to using Parcel Motel for most purchases.

It took a few restarts for the strings to sync to the Firestick. All good now!

Sultan of Bling

Got a now stick yesterday.

I cant find a live tv option on the rte player. Is this not available.?

I also thought there dwas a spotify app but cant find one.

Nigzcurran

Sultan of Bling wrote: »

Got a now stick yesterday.

I cant find a live tv option on the rte player. Is this not available.?

I also thought there dwas a spotify app but cant find one.

Definitely a Spotify app, I noticed I only have the live tv option on the RTÉ player on my phone and none on the stick