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  • #32
    CaptainD
    Registered Users Posts: 14 ✭CaptainD


    Has anybody else experienced this since Thursday? Entertainment watch live still works perfectly but the catch-up/box sets are now "not available to your region" with the same message as itv encore. :(


  • #33
    Schwanz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 898 ✭✭✭Schwanz


    CaptainD wrote: »
    Has anybody else experienced this since Thursday? Entertainment watch live still works perfectly but the catch-up/box sets are now "not available to your region" with the same message as itv encore. :(

    Yeah looks like UK subs are closed here now


  • #34
    Kristopherus
    Registered Users Posts: 11,907 ✭✭✭✭Kristopherus


    Schwanz wrote: »
    Yeah looks like UK subs are closed here now

    I notice when I log in to my (UK) account now, I get redirected to the .ie site. I cannot order any stuff in £'s. I get the Irish rip-off prices. So now I have Sky News live and Youtube to entertain me.


  • #35
    Schwanz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 898 ✭✭✭Schwanz


    Can a UK Box be used here with a new Irish acount?

    I've tried and I get logged in but then get a "account error"

    Wondering if it's a software issue on the box?


  • #36
    kala85
    Registered Users Posts: 1,879 ✭✭✭kala85


    Does the channel four online player still work ok


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  • #37
    Schwanz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 898 ✭✭✭Schwanz


    Can't access the service on a uk box with an irish login.

    Anyone conquered this yet or is it impossible?


  • #38
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,499 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    This is the second warning I have had to give about discussing circumventing regional restrictions.

    For those new to this forum, it has been banned for the past sixteen years here.

    I do not want to have to close a second Now TV thread because people keep ignoring this, so I will start giving people 48 hour bans without further warning if this is ignored again.


  • #39
    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,313 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    There is a 'Now TV Ireland' app on the Android Play Store, the comments are very negative, they are along the lines of what's been discussed here - people with UK subscriptions being cut off because they live in Ireland and being expected to pay way over the odds when you compare the prices in each country.

    Edit: Lest there be any confusion here and in the light of the mod warning above, I am not questioning the right of NOW TV to cut-off people living in Ireland who have UK subscriptions, it's the price hike they expect them to pay for an inferior service that I'm highlighting as unacceptable.

    My attitude is that we simply need to boycott this attempted rip-off and make them see sense. Even with the high prices, no support for Chromecast means that you can only watch it on a tablet or mobile phone unless you buy their Irish box which (like the subscription) is way above the UK price.

    Sample reviews...
    I was using Nowtv with my UK account but now live in Ireland I had no issue using my account until NOWTV ireland was introduced and blocked my UK account. This is a ploy to make me pay more money.
    Sky overcharging Irish customers for content again. Terrible app with no Chromecast support. Also no android tv app. All so you buy a now tv box from the Irish site, which is again far more expensive than the UK.

    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nowtv.ie&hl=en


  • #40
    Schwanz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 898 ✭✭✭Schwanz


    I just need to ask a question about the NOW TV box @ICDG.

    I have 3 boxes bought in the UK and my account from there has ceased. I now have an Irish account legally bought here. So no discussion of circumventing regional restrictions as requested will be in the question.


    I just need to know can my new account be played on one of the boxes - or do I require a new box bought here with maybe new software specifically for us here in Ireland.

    Can anyone answer this as it would save a good few bob??- 75 euro in fact.

    No malice in the question.


  • #41
    givecredit
    Registered Users Posts: 1,654 ✭✭✭givecredit


    [QUOTE=Schwanz;103695889
    I just need to know can my new account be played on one of the boxes - or do I require a new box bought here with maybe new software specifically for us here in Ireland.

    .[/QUOTE]

    I am not a NowTv Ireland customer, but I have heard from other NowTv ireland customers that the UK nowtv box will not work with Now tv Ireland.
    New box required at €25


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  • #42
    Schwanz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 898 ✭✭✭Schwanz


    givecredit wrote: »
    I am not a NowTv Ireland customer, but I have heard from other NowTv ireland customers that the UK nowtv box will not work with Now tv Ireland.
    New box required at €25

    Thanks for that, time for me to pull the plug on the Irish service then.


  • #43
    givecredit
    Registered Users Posts: 1,654 ✭✭✭givecredit


    CaptainD wrote: »
    Has anybody else experienced this since Thursday? Entertainment watch live still works perfectly but the catch-up/box sets are now "not available to your region" with the same message as itv encore. :(

    This issue has been fixed.


  • #44
    kooga
    Registered Users Posts: 2,882 ✭✭✭kooga


    For and Boardies that live in Northern Ireland

    Yesterday I picked up in Argos in Castlecourt a now tv box with a three month entertainment pass for £14.99 plus after setting up my box in Belfast at my address I availed of the free 14 day trail for sky sports.

    so for £14.99 I am all set for season 7 of game of thrones and the two remaining lions tests.


  • #45
    kooga
    Registered Users Posts: 2,882 ✭✭✭kooga


    duplicate


  • #46
    citytillidie
    Registered Users Posts: 21,947 ✭✭✭✭citytillidie


    kooga wrote: »
    For and Boardies that live in Northern Ireland

    Yesterday I picked up in Argos in Castlecourt a now tv box with a three month entertainment pass for £14.99 plus after setting up my box in Belfast at my address I availed of the free 14 day trail for sky sports.

    so for £14.99 I am all set for season 7 of game of thrones and the two remaining lions tests.

    Yea i would buy my passes from Argos as you usually get 3 months of entertainment for £15 saving you £6.

    I did have the movies at £25 for 3 months saving £5 and cancelled it, as I was cancelling they offered me 6 months at £3.99 a month for the movies.

    So i would check Argos Ireland they might be the same for the Irish subs

    ******



  • #47
    kooga
    Registered Users Posts: 2,882 ✭✭✭kooga


    or a 5 month pass in currys for £25.


  • #48
    citytillidie
    Registered Users Posts: 21,947 ✭✭✭✭citytillidie


    Oh must look at currys then as Argos stopped doing the 5 month passes

    ******



  • #49
    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,313 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    Until NOW TV in Ireland supports Chromecast and/or Apple TV (both are supported for UK customers), I am not touching it.

    Forcing you to buy a Now TV box for €25 when you already have kit that would work with Now TV in the UK is a total rip-off.

    Boycott.


  • #50
    gizmo81
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,695 ✭✭✭gizmo81


    Can I put a Now Tv app on my Roku 3 or Apple Tv?

    Can't find any clear info online...

    Edit, got onto chat with Now Tv, I need to buy a box. Seems crazy when i have a Roku which is Now Tv as far as I've been told


  • #51
    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,313 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    gizmo81 wrote: »
    Can I put a Now Tv app on my Roku 3 or Apple Tv?

    If you have a UK Apple login, you can get Now TV on Apple TV but whether they (Now TV) will let you login using an Irish userid is another question.

    UK users of Now TV can use Apple TV and/or Chromecast.


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  • #52
    gizmo81
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,695 ✭✭✭gizmo81


    Crazy sh1t. I hate this 'Paddy Tax' culture.

    coylemj wrote: »
    If you have a UK Apple login, you can get Now TV on Apple TV but whether they (Now TV) will let you login using an Irish userid is another question.

    UK users of Now TV can use Apple TV and/or Chromecast.


  • #53
    givecredit
    Registered Users Posts: 1,654 ✭✭✭givecredit


    gizmo81 wrote: »
    Can I put a Now Tv app on my Roku 3 or Apple Tv?

    Can't find any clear info online...

    Edit, got onto chat with Now Tv, I need to buy a box. Seems crazy when i have a Roku which is Now Tv as far as I've been told

    Open a UK roku a/c and a UK nowtv a/c and your good to go. Uk Roku accounts much better than Irish one. UK nowtv a/c much better value.


  • #54
    kooga
    Registered Users Posts: 2,882 ✭✭✭kooga


    Just going to update my uk experience of now tv in the uk

    Did some goggling on uk retention deals when you go to cancel so I tried it.

    I am on a three month free entertainment pass so went to cancel and was advised to give the reason too expensive so my cancellation goes through and will take effect at the end of September so in the interim I can keep watching. No entertainment retention deal but I was offered sky cinema free for 1 month took the offer.

    So I decided to put through my sky cinema cancellation as I didn't want to pay £9.99 a month and I was offered cinema for £3.99 a month for 4 months so took the offer. Works out at 5 months cinema at £3.19 pm average


  • #55
    kooga
    Registered Users Posts: 2,882 ✭✭✭kooga


    the uk entertainment pass is going up to £7.99 pm from mide august


  • #56
    senordingdong
    Registered Users Posts: 10,673 ✭✭✭✭senordingdong


    Was looking into the trial because their site says I can watch now tv on a games console.

    Their site confirms this but I can't find their app in the xbox 360 store.
    Can anyone confirm if it can be watched on a console?


  • #57
    PTH2009
    Registered Users Posts: 37,713 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    I might sign up for the free trial next Sunday so I can 3 episodes of the new series of game of thrones. Can i cancel the day the free trial expires and not get charged €15 Or do they take €15 out once the trial finishes either way???

    I got the app on my Android Tv through Aptiode market and sideload


  • #58
    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,313 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    senordingdong wrote: »
    Was looking into the trial because their site says I can watch now tv on a games console.

    Their site confirms this but I can't find their app in the xbox 360 store.
    Can anyone confirm if it can be watched on a console?

    UK: Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3 and P4.

    Here, none of them.

    UK supported devices

    ROI supported devices


  • #59
    senordingdong
    Registered Users Posts: 10,673 ✭✭✭✭senordingdong


    coylemj wrote: »
    UK: Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3 and P4.

    Here, none of them.

    UK supported devices

    ROI supported devices

    That's a disappointment. I assumed that I was reading the native information.

    Giving the trial a whirl on my tablet and I'm finding the quality very poor. Netflix working flawlessly by contrast.


  • #60
    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,313 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    senordingdong wrote: »
    That's a disappointment. I assumed that I was reading the native information.

    Giving the trial a whirl on my tablet and I'm finding the quality very poor. Netflix working flawlessly by contrast.

    Then may I suggest that you do not sign up at the end of the trial and if they ask why, let them know that their service is crap. And while you're at it, please take the time to remind them that they don't support the same devices that work in the UK and forcing Irish people to buy an overpriced Roku box to watch it on a real TV (because Apple TV and Chromecast are not supported here) is a complete rip-off.


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  • #61
    senordingdong
    Registered Users Posts: 10,673 ✭✭✭✭senordingdong


    coylemj wrote: »
    Then may I suggest that you do not sign up at the end of the trial and if they ask why, let them know that their service is crap. And while you're at it, please take the time to remind them that they don't support the same devices that work in the UK and forcing Irish people to buy an overpriced Roku box to watch it on a real TV (because Apple TV and Chromecast are not supported here) is a complete rip-off.

    You read my mind


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