27-09-2015 16:22 - edited 27-09-2015 16:33
TV Player have launched their Plus premium service, which is currently in Beta.
For £4.99 (Free trial for 14 days), you get a mix of free and 25 subscription channels.
Pay tv channels are:
Lifetime
Watch
TLC
Gold (already on NOW TV)
Alibi
Sony Entertainment Television
Sony Movie Channel
History
Discovery (on Now TV)
ID - Investigation Discovery
Discovery Turbo
Animal Planet
H2
CI
Good Food
Home
Eden
National Geographic Channel
British Eurosport
British Eurosport 2
Cartoon Network
Boomerang
Cartoonito
Baby TV
TV Player Plus will be on PC, iOS, Android, Amazon Fire and coming soon to Samsung Smart TV's and connected Freeview. (The latter won't have the UKTV owned channels).
14-10-2015 20:56
14-10-2015 22:25
@Anonymous User I'm waiting until to player plus channels are available via channel 241 on my LG smart TV before I bother subscribing. However, I do agree that having both now tv and tv player plus will be an excellent combination
15-10-2015 22:16
I'm getting Irish ads while watching TLC on TVPlayer Plus tonight.
13-11-2015 17:04
TV Player Plus will be on the EE box in the near future. This is the first box that will have TV Player Plus and NOW TV together.
13-11-2015 20:25
@BicBasher Any idea when we will expect to see it rolled out to the LG smart TV?
15-11-2015 23:27
@Anonymous User wrote:@BicBasher Any idea when we will expect to see it rolled out to the LG smart TV?
@Anonymous User
Sorry for the delay in replying. Absolutely no idea.
I've cancelled my subscription which runs out on the 1st Dec, really disappointed that they haven't got round to a connected Freeview launch yet.
Although the bitrates are similar to NOW TV, the PQ is awful in comparison. BBC One is the only semi decent stream and that's free!
17-11-2015 23:43
@BicBasher I tweeted them asking about connected TVs and they said the plus channels won't be coming to channel 241 however they are working hard to release the app on as many TVs as possible soon I
18-11-2015 2:05
@Anonymous User wrote:@BicBasher I tweeted them asking about connected TVs and they said the plus channels won't be coming to channel 241 however they are working hard to release the app on as many TVs as possible soon I
A shame about connected Freeview being scrapped. That would have filled a void left by VuTV for Pay TV on the platform.
26-03-2016 15:07
For those interested you can now get TV player plus on Amazon Fire boxes have just downloaded it (and I presume sticks though I don't have one to check at the moment). Still costs £4.99 a month. Only channel I can see that overlaps with Now is Gold. Gives over 30 non freeview channels for under £12 a month!! To give an idea of the saving History channel (which I know some people are interested in) is not available on the cheaper Virgin packages you have to pay £55 a month to get that! (obviously you get other channels for that).
26-03-2016 16:55 - edited 26-03-2016 17:01
@4268 wrote:
For those interested you can now get TV player plus on Amazon Fire boxes have just downloaded it (and I presume sticks though I don't have one to check at the moment). Still costs £4.99 a month. Only channel I can see that overlaps with Now is Gold. Gives over 30 non freeview channels for under £12 a month!! To give an idea of the saving History channel (which I know some people are interested in) is not available on the cheaper Virgin packages you have to pay £55 a month to get that! (obviously you get other channels for that).
Hi @4268
30 extra pay-TV channels? I think you mean 25?. having now TV entertainment and TV player plus would give you access to 37 pay-TV channels (I haven't counted gold twice) for £12 a month. I think virgin media need to be scared because let's put it this way, if you're somebody that has a virgin media, Internet connection, there's no reason why you wouldn't be able to use services like nowTV and TV player plus some virgin media needs to think about their pricing certainly on the TV side of things.
I am waiting for them to add chromecast support before I resubscribe as there's not that many big-screen devices you can watch it on at the moment and using a PC is a bit of a pain