08-03-2016 18:18
I plan to away for 2 months in Europe travelling on business. Can I access Now Tv online whilst out of the country.
Thanks
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08-03-2016 18:38
19-08-2016 10:47
@Anonymous User wrote:There's a proposed EU regulation that would allow EU residents travelling within the EU to continue to access digital content that they have purchased or subscribed to at home.
This might come into effect as early as 2017.
If few months after that this options is not available to UK residents anymore, well you know who to thank for that.
It is also worth nothing that Netflix allows customer from country A to access local content from Netflix country B while travelling there; not exactly accessing the same content you had at home, but at least you get something. Sky / NowTv also has services in other countries, so they could think of offering something similar to NetFlix, for example accessing the Italian NowTv while travelling there.
If only remain had mentioned this, I'd have voted to stay in the EU 😉 It won't happen because of sports rights. BBC iPlayer and Amazon Prime do allow you to download shows and movies to watch. Netflix is very impressive in this respect, and it is great when you get a different set of movies in the different countries. In my case, I used it when I travelled to Switzerland (outside the EU), and not only did I have Breaking Bad to watch in the evening but a whole host of movies that weren't on Sky, Amazon nor Netflix UK.
19-08-2016 18:23
@Anonymous User unfortunately we do know The pan European legislation may still come in before Brexit- think leavers forget until Article 50 is triggered, and completed, we still abide with EU legislation. Sadly little thought seems to have been taken by that side.
20-08-2016 9:40
EU rules are in force for a while to come - exit date not known.
We still shopped in Belgium last month and brought back £1.2K excise goods ( beer, wine and baccy) for personal use etc.
20-08-2016 13:41 - edited 20-08-2016 13:42
Even when we leave the EU, it's very likely the UK will sign up for a trade agreement which will allow free trade between us and the remaining EU member states. So it's likely the legislation that allows for example mobile phones to be used on a UK tariff without roaming charges (they're currently capped until 2017) and the proposed agreement to allow users to use VoD services as in the UK abroad may still happen.
23-08-2016 15:39
@BicBasher wrote:Even when we leave the EU, it's very likely the UK will sign up for a trade agreement which will allow free trade between us and the remaining EU member states. So it's likely the legislation that allows for example mobile phones to be used on a UK tariff without roaming charges (they're currently capped until 2017) and the proposed agreement to allow users to use VoD services as in the UK abroad may still happen.
Well, "it's very likely", "it's likely", "may still happen"... yeah, right, maybe... or maybe not... we'll see...