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Posted 24 July 2014
nowtv boxes for £12.50 on pc world website
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searching on pc worlds site to see what I want to use up the Amex offer currently on and found the now tv boxes for £12.50
these come with
4 months entertainment pass
3 months movie pass, or
Sports Day Pass & 30 day movies trial
these come with
4 months entertainment pass
3 months movie pass, or
Sports Day Pass & 30 day movies trial
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So in total you could potentially get the nowtv box with 4 months sky movies pass for only £2.50!
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Making this PC World deal much better value.
nowtv.com/box
without any entertainment or movie packages! so for 2.51 more you could have four months ents or three months movies
Doesn't include any of the packs mentioned above. The ones that are in this deal are £34.99 on the nowtv website.
Would of ordered one but none in stock near me. Hot though!
You can get £2.10 cash back from TopCashBack too.
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For folk with IOS devices (and some android, but seems much more stable on IOS), I would recommend the Sky Sports Mobile App (if you dont have Sky on tv). Only £4.99 and its pretty good quality most (about 95%) of the time (unfortunately only seems to have "network issues" when a really big game is on, but things seem to have improved the last few months). This is the phone/ ipod app, but works nicely on x2 on Ipads. You get all the sports channels, and F1, and Sports News, been using it pretty happily for a few years.
Also can use on two devices at once, so me and my dad can watch on my account on Ipads ten miles away.
The Sky Movies / Entertainment passes seem like very good value to me. I purchased the Movies pass box with 5 months movies and will wait to use the voucher around Xmas time when you are likely to have the Summer Blockbusters available, and then the Oscar Movies later.
The Entertainment pass is good too as they have some decent boxsets on there at the moment you can watch, particularly Hannibal / Sopranos, and also I watched the 24 on Catchup, and the recent Monty Python thing live on Gold.
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I struggled to find enough movies to watch with a free trial, so would never consider paying for a pass, however, once you've sideloaded Plex, if you have a server full of content, you have one of the most powerful media distribution systems available. At £9.99 (minus £2 quidco which was available at the time) it's allowed me to have a box attached to every tv in the house, in fact over a year I'll probably save the cost just in electricity consumption.
You side load Plex by adding it as a test application to the system, this feature allows developers to install their apps for testing purposes, so it's not like you're flashing the bios or hacking in the normal sense. Plex appears like any other application in the list of applications. In fact mine have all been updated since I installed Plex and it's still there, with no need to reinstall.
mike
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You might want to add a bit of heat in this direction then
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Really? Because £12.50 means nothing to you, moneybags? And also because if it breaks in the next 12 months I'll have to pay £9.99 for a new unit? That totals up to £22.49. Now that you've been schooled in maths, here's an English lesson. It's you're, not your. Hopefully, you now understand how flippant your comment was. Thanks.
we'll thats me told (_;)
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To back up what others are saying, I've had this box since the early days (well a year ago it would seem: https://forums.plex.tv/index.php/topic/75573-plex-on-the-sky-now-tv-box/) and its great. I have personally purchased 7 so far, all set up and channels then cancelled without a hitch. Every member of my immediate family owns one, again no problems at all. They now have all of the catch up TV channels making my youview box a bit redundant, and they run plex which is a godsend. Best tenner ever spent.
May I suggest rarflix as a better alternative to 'real' plex: forums.plex.tv/ind…el/
Flippant it may be, but I'm sure I wasn't the only person reading your original comment who thought the same as paulj48 £12.50 isn't even 2 hours at minimum wage and anyway, how often do these boxes fail, there's very little inside and I'd say a very low likelihood of failure unless mistreated.
mike
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Fully agree and it's not really £12.50 anyway as the movie pass is worth at least a tenner.
I concur, Season 4 was on Catchup recently, as with 24, but with both shows you will only be able to see the episodes that went out in the last 4 weeks.
The boxsets are a different thing and have some decent shows in complete form to watch for free as part of the entertainment package, not a huge selection but Hannibal and Sopranos are the standouts for me.
Heat level now 666, next person to post is the anti christ
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Do something inventive with your spare ones - custom made Dominos...
Also CEX have cottened on and are now only paying £3 (store credit) for the box if you just want the vouchers. I have sold mine to people in work for £5 so they get a bargain and the vouchers only cost me £7.50 then.
I have contacted NOW TV and the batches from this store (at least the 2 movie packs I bought) do not expire until sept 2015 so plenty of time left to use them. Remember to get the 1 month free then add 1 3 month movie pass. if you get a second set a reminder of the first payment date shown on your now TV account. add the next 3 month voucher 10 days before the date so it will continue (this is because the payment system can call upto 10 days before the actual payment date and will save hassle, but its up to you.
If you buy more than one and are worried about the expiry date of the vouchers, once signed up to NOW TV just use live chat providing you details and the voucher code and they will tell you the expiry date of that voucher. Some people have said that it only lasts 12 months but they can last up to 24 months.
anyway sorry to bore you all but hope this helps some of you
Wifi only
Been wanting one for ages - seen Tesco deal at same price with movies expired so this is perfect.
You can easily reset the software, I'm sure they wouldn't be able to tell, anyway it's only £10 so.....
I've got one of mine plugged into an old 32" CRT Philips TV, it works a treat, you can buy a cable from NowTV, but they seem to be out of stock most of the time. But, they work with a standard Nokia AV CA75U Cable, originally used by the Nokia N82, N900 and N95, but make sure it's a genuine or compatible as there's no standard for 3 Phono to 1 3.5mm jack cables, so some are configured incorrectly.
mike
No adverts during the movies.
you saved my comment! Accidentaly deleted it.
jeez, your asking about a manufacturers warranty on a £12.50 unit
Of course, if it failed, you could take it back for a refund.............
I never have had a problem (have set up and cancelled my account a few times)
Is it just me or were the movies I had a look at in SD?! They seemed quite blurry to me on my large screen TV. Side-loading the Plex app in developer mode made the box a bit more useful, but the lack of a TV tuner *still* means you have to have another set-top box (recorder) hooked up as well to cover all your bases?
In the end, I decided it wasn't useful enough for me, but at 10 quid, I'll keep it hanging around just in case. To cover broadcast TV, I picked up a Grade A Humax HDR-1000S for 135 quid to hook up to my Sat dish - UI isn't perfect, but it covers all my bases nicely (catchup TV for the "big 5", recording TV (dual tuner), playback of downloaded music/movies/photos via USB or DLNA) in one box with no subs.
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It would actually cost me more to drive / get 2 buses to pc world to collect!
The boxes come sealed with the voucher inside, so the £34 contains a 6 month pass rather than the 4 month voucher in the £12.50 pack.
£12.99 on ebay with shopto for those without stock in their area ebay.co.uk/itm…6d8
Thks just ordered one here oos all local stores