Blurry sky sports on Roku stick

[Anonymous User]

Hi , occasionally I buy a day pass for sky sports through now TV on my Roku streaming stick , the last 2 times I've purchased one the coverage on all channels is very blurry , sound is perfect though , no buffering just blurry . Works perfectly on my tablet though.

Anyone got ant ideas ?

 Roku is up to date , now TV app is up to date , have reset modem and Roku stick several times , WiFi is running at 20mb .

Can't think of anything else to try 😔.

Thanks.

[Anonymous User]

I have the same issue on the sports, it just goes really blurry all of a sudden. 

[Anonymous User]

Just bought NOWTV stick to watch GAA game on SkySportsArena. What a waste of money. Stick £15. Day pass for sky sports &7.99. Picture unwatchably blurred all the way through. Would not recommend at all!!!! 

[Anonymous User]

Same problem here. Seems a problem specific to the Now tv app on a Roku streaming stick. 

[Anonymous User]

I've started noticing that the NowTV live chanels are blurry for the last 2 weeks or so, but was ok before on my Roku box. Now there is very little point watching TV live via NowTV.

The Catch up streams are perfectly fine!

[Anonymous User]

Mine is exactly the same. Started after recent update. Wired connection. Good internet speed. Everythng works but sky sports channels. Anyone got a fix? 

[Anonymous User]

Forgot to say. Tried resetting everything and went back to factory default. Nothing worked. 

[Anonymous User]

Didn’t work for me either. Given up on it.

[Anonymous User]

Bounce

Exactly the same here. Most NowTV channels are fine until you get to the live stuff and then the viewing quality ios so poor you can't see anything.

[Anonymous User]

I have this issue with a Roku 3.  I paid for Sky Sports for 10 months for the £179 offer and the first three games I wanted to watch all went so blurry they were unwatchable.  My internet onnection was excellent and everything up-to-date.  I tried watching on my PC in stead and it worked perfectly!  Since then I've been turning on the appropriate channel early, before the show starts, waiting until it turns blurry and then re-starting the Roku 3.  When I put the channel back on it's perfect.  It doesn't always last for the entire show, but sometimes it does.  When it goes blurry again I restart it again!  It's a pain in the ###### and it shouldn't keep happening, but I've no idea how to fix it.

[Anonymous User]

Mine was blury just now watching the golf...I pressed the reset button at the back with a paperclip and at the moment it's fine.....fingers crossed...and good luck, to you and Europe!!

[Anonymous User]

hi,

   I had the same problem on my Now Tv 2 box after the March update and like you found restarting the box would correct it for a while and very annoying. On Oct 25th my box recieved a new fimware update, since then whenever the quality drops it usually recovers within a few seconds, just like it used to. This suggests there was a firmware issue they have now fxed and are rolling out.

[Anonymous User]

Thanks for this info !

[Anonymous User]

I had this problem with a new Roku box. It turned out that because the TV is in a different room from the router, and with several walls in between, the network speed between router and roku was too slow (my BT internet speed is super fast). I got a BT wifi booster, plugged it in the TV room connected to my 5Ghz wifi and - voila- picture excellent.

[Jon]

I have encountered the same issue. Basically the NOW TV app for Sky sports does not support 4k. To resolve this on the 4k Roku stick, go to the home page and then change the setting to 1078, rather than any of the 4k settings. This resolved the issue for me. 4k and above seems fine on everything else