29-01-2016 8:52
NOW TV to launch most advanced box yet
"Online TV streaming service, NOW TV, is to launch its most advanced TV box later this year. The brand new NOW TV Smart Box will bring together NOW TV’s wide range of pay TV content and over 60 live free-to-air channels.
Additionally customers with a NOW TV Box will see new a brand new interface (UI) roll out to their TVs from February. The new-look UI will include a number of great new features including a content-rich homepage offering editorial recommendations of what to watch across catch up TV apps and pay TV content from NOW TV. A new ‘Best of Catch Up’ section, curated by content partners, will also arrive showcasing all the best shows our customers may have missed in one place.
Gidon Katz, Director of NOW TV said: “The launch of our new homepage on the NOW TV Box will make it easier than ever for our customers to quickly find and watch their favourite shows. And when the new NOW TV Smart Box arrives later this year, it will be the perfect one-stop box to get a contract-free, flexible way of watching the best of pay TV and free-to-air content all in one place.”
NOW TV worked with Silicon Valley based Roku Inc. to develop the new NOW TV Smart Box which will sit alongside the existing NOW TV Box, with pricing details and further information to be made available later in the year."
29-06-2016 14:46
29-06-2016 14:52
@lenturn wrote:
Can anyone tell me if it's 50Hz capable, or are we stuck watching Freeview at 60Hz?
Hi @lenturn
Just in case you didn't know 50 Hz video output is a mandatory requirement for kit which receives Freeview channels. So if the box didn't support 50 Hz video output, then NowTV would be breaking Freeview's rules.
29-06-2016 14:58
Well that's good to know at least!
So does the box use 50Hz all the time, even when accessing the Now TV app?
29-06-2016 15:03
@lenturn The box outputs at 50Hz all the time.
29-06-2016 15:04
Good to hear.
29-06-2016 17:18
Yet again the opportunity to produce a device outputting IPTV to Freeview HD standards is missed. This is yet another fail from NOW TV.
Can someone from the official team expalin why this has been neglected yet again? 720p in 2016 isn't good enough especially for ball sports on large screen HD and 4K receivers.
Sad.
29-06-2016 17:29
@Anonymous User because this isn't a "Freeview HD" box
29-06-2016 19:49
I've read that the usb port is capable of video playback on the new box. Does anyone know the app that is used for it?
29-06-2016 20:30
Is it possible to move this thread into the NOW Combo forum? Everyone knows now.
29-06-2016 20:40 - edited 29-06-2016 20:47
@lenturn wrote:I've read that the usb port is capable of video playback on the new box. Does anyone know the app that is used for it?
I don't suppose it could be used to increase the pause/rewind buffer size? I stuck an old 20GB walkman in my Samsung Freevie HD TV recently to do this and it works a treat.
Seems not. Interesting review here...