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NOW TV to launch most advanced box yet

 

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."

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It asks in the survey for signing up for trial if you have access to a digital aerial.
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I'd love to take part aswell! (I've got an aerial) ☺️

 

(have the full NowTV sub) 👍🏻

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@Anonymous User  you have to submit the application in Tom's post.  http://community.nowtv.com/t5/NOW-TV-Box-black/Test-the-NOW-TV-Smart-Box/m-p/358612#M3013

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@4268 👍🏻 (I've submitted my application) 🍻

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First let me say what a great bit of kit the Now TV box is! Over the years I have spent £000's of pounds on TV's, Sky and set top boxes etc... but the Now TV box for £14 has to be one of the best bits of kit on the market. It is for this reason that I am already upset when I read about the new 'Now TV Smart Box' due out this year. Most people that buy the 'Now' box have a TV, and most TV's will have a DTT tuner... So having a DTT tuner in the new 'Now TV Smart Box' is pointless! Would it not have been better to provide the Free-to-Air channels via streaming? I just don't get it... Sorry Sky!

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I think it will save the hassle of having to swap between devices to watch Now channels and Freeview. Making it more straight forward for some users.
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How about merging this topic together with this New NOW TV Smart Box topic?

 

Cheers

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Dear Forum Members

 

Does anyone know if the New Now TV Box will be able to pick up those freeview channels that require an additional component or facility to be viewed, e.g. Vintage TV, where a notice appears saying "Sorry, your device is not compatible with this service".  

 

Furthermore, there seems to be more of these "Sorry, your device is not compatible..." freeview channels popping up every few months and I really do not know what is needed to make them watchable.

 

 

UK Bob

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@ukbobboy wrote:

Dear Forum Members

 

Does anyone know if the New Now TV Box will be able to pick up those freeview channels that require an additional component or facility to be viewed, e.g. Vintage TV, where a notice appears saying "Sorry, your device is not compatible with this service".  

 

Furthermore, there seems to be more of these "Sorry, your device is not compatible..." freeview channels popping up every few months and I really do not know what is needed to make them watchable.

 

 

UK Bob


Might be wrong, but my assumption would be that all you need is a TV with a spare HDMI port, together with either a fixed or portable aerial to receive the Freeview channels.

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@ukbobboy wrote:

Does anyone know if the New Now TV Box will be able to pick up those freeview channels that require an additional component or facility to be viewed, e.g. Vintage TV, where a notice appears saying "Sorry, your device is not compatible with this service".  

 


Interesting question...

 

Sufficed to say the 'additional component' is primarily an internet connection, along with support for MPEG-4 AVC video and HE-AAC-PS audio Smiley Wink