NOW TV to launch most advanced box yet

[dr_necessitor]

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."

[BicBasher]

Considering this is also a Freeview box, this has to be the first NOW TV box that outputs at 50Hz.

[SeeMoreDigital]

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@BicBasher wrote:

Considering this is also a Freeview box, this has to be the first NOW TV box that outputs at 50Hz.

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Lets hope so. If it does, "I'm in with bells on" 

[ukbobboy]

Dear Forum Members

I am sure that no one has missed the fact that the (ultra) new Now TV box is based on the Roku 4, and that box does not sport an aerial socket.

However, the Roku 4 does sport a quad core CPU, which I am reasonably sure the new Now TV box will have and this will make the Now TV box the most powerful and fastest smart TV box, at it's price, on the market. 

So, if you want to see what new goodies (hardware facilities, not apps) the new box will have then check out the Roku 4.

http://www.techradar.com/reviews/audio-visual/av-accessories/roku-4-1307683/review

UK Bob

[mark_suff]

Thanks for that @ukbobboy hadn't actually clicked link for story so didn't see pic of box.

[Anonymous User]

Shame that there isn't a picture of the remote as that could provide a few answers

[ukbobboy]

@Anonymous User

You mentioned the remote for the new box, it's more than likely Now TV will stick to the same successful convention as used in previous remotes.  

UK Bob

[Andy]

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@Anonymous User wrote:

Shame that there isn't a picture of the remote as that could provide a few answers

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Well I wished for the headphones out feature of the Roku remote to make it to the black NOW TV box and didn't get, so I'm now going to start wishing for the headphones out feature of the Roku remote to make it to the NOW TV Smart Box ... 

.. second time lucky maybe (estimated probability 0.01)

[commanda6]

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@Andy wrote:

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@Anonymous User wrote:

Shame that there isn't a picture of the remote as that could provide a few answers

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Well I wished for the headphones out feature of the Roku remote to make it to the black NOW TV box and didn't get, so I'm now going to start wishing for the headphones out feature of the Roku remote to make it to the NOW TV Smart Box ... 

.. second time lucky maybe (estimated probability 0.01)

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LOL

I'm not liking this negativity @Andy , you should be more of an optimist 

[Andy]

You say potayto, I say potarto ... You say optimist, I say I was optimist until I didn't get my headphone out enabled remote last time and now I'm not .... 😉

I'll bump the probability up to 0.02 just for you though! 😄

[ukbobboy]

@Andy

You know what I would like to see on all remotes, a self-finding feature (as demonstrated on the Roku 4) because I keep forgetting where I leave them.  I guess this feature would save me 10 - 30 hours a year looking for lost remotes.  

UK Bob