Losing watch on 2 device's at same time?

[Anonymous User]

While changing a device on my account I see in the small print that it says from 31 July I will only be able to watch on one device at a time instead of 2. Why is this changing? To be only able to watch 1 device at a time makes Now TV not worth the price. Has anyone else seen this? 

[PAMDILL]

I had no warning about the loss of ability to stream on two screens then once I took out Boost I got no notice of the rise to £5 a month.

Now all the Discovery channels have gone as well as Fox and paying £14.99 a month for a lot less channels then we used to have you wonder if it is worth it anymore.

[gavs82008]

@PAMDILL 

FOX was owned by Disney and it makes sense for them to close the channel and put its content on Disney+.

Discovery wanted to promote Discovery+, made sense for the channel to be pulled.

Both decisions absolutely nothing to do with Sky/NOW.

As for the reduction in streams, this was promoted within the Banner on your account page up til the changes took place.

[RoyB]

@gavs82008 @PAMDILL 

The decisions themselves may have been nothing to do with Sky/Now, but the consequences of those decisions, which is that the services offered by Sky/Now have been reduced, thus in turn reducing the value of their offerings, has everything to do with Sky/Now.

The golden age of streaming, when three affordable subscriptions could get you everything there was to have, has lasted but a couple of years at most; and now we have to cherry-pick from the plethora of subscriptions on offer, Now must look to their laurels if they are to remain among the cherry-picked.

[Anonymous User]

The decision to cut the basic number of streams from 2 to 1 and add advertisements was a SKY/NOW decision and a bizarre one given how the value of the streams has been eroded by other competing services and the number of subscription free and totally ad funded services available is increasing 

[ScottishMike]

... and it can take up to 10 minutes for NowTV to realise you've signed out of one app so you can watch on another device?

[RoyB]

@ScottishMike 

We now know that the ten-minute rule only applies if you (say) just switch the device off without exiting cleanly.

As long as you make a clean exit from what you were watching, even just back to the Home Screen, you can pick up straight away on another device,