NowTV box

Inner_Zone

AbbieCadabra wrote: »

i'm really struggling to find out what HD content is available on the now tv smart box, if anyone can help/point me in the right direction please?

interested in the entertainment, movies & sports channels.

thanks

Allmost all info on the NowTv website:

http://www.nowtv.com/tv-smart-box

The 12 terrestrial TV HD Channels, several BBC, ITV, Ch4 and Ch5.

Streaming is 576i entertainment and upto 720P movies and sport though the box is capable of 1080P

AbbieCadabra wrote: »

p.s. is there any other way to get HD content & sky channels, inc. sports, apart from Sky? (can't have a sky dish at our house)

Why? Dishes can be camouflaged or mounted low on the ground assuming line of sight.

Not Sky but Amazon and Netflix offer HD.

AbbieCadabra

landlord/freeholder won't give permission for dish, trust me, we've tried. it's a property we've only just purchased & we were assured getting a sat dish wouldn't be an issue....turns out it is.

so only freeview channels in HD & sky sports/movies 1080p but not actual HD channels?

hmmm, not really going to get the best out of our new ultra hd/4k tv then are we...great

JJ_Egan

BT TV offer HD and some 4k UHD .
Not many services yet for 4k UHD .

Inner_Zone

AbbieCadabra wrote: »

landlord/freeholder won't give permission for dish, trust me, we've tried. it's a property we've only just purchased & we were assured getting a sat dish wouldn't be an issue....turns out it is.

Dish does not need to be wall mounted as above. There are various solutions available to hide or disguise dish which maybe actually not look like a dish.

AbbieCadabra wrote: »

so only freeview channels in HD & sky sports/movies 720p but actual HD channels?

Corrected that for you, 720P is HD.

AbbieCadabra wrote: »

hmmm, not really going to get the best out of our new ultra hd/4k tv then are we...great

Now you want 4K. NowTV does not support UHD. For UHD / 4K content you need BT TV box and BT internet, or a Sky 2TB UHD box and multiscreen package and dish or Amazon and or Netflix via any ISP but must be 15Mb download or higher..

boliston

It's about time sky offered a fully internet based service that does not rely on a dish.

NOW TV seems like a quite cut down version of sky and it cannot record.

I can't really see any advantage of feeding content over a dish vs over a fibre internet connection.

Also it is good for people who have leases that ban a dish but with a faulty communal dish that nobody has any interest in fixing any time soon.

teddysmum

boliston wrote: »

It's about time sky offered a fully internet based service that does not rely on a dish.

NOW TV seems like a quite cut down version of sky and it cannot record.

I can't really see any advantage of feeding content over a dish vs over a fibre internet connection.

Also it is good for people who have leases that ban a dish but with a faulty communal dish that nobody has any interest in fixing any time soon.

Many have neither fibre nor a reasonable ADSL speed, so streaming would be of very poor quality for them.


When my present ADSL provision began, it took 4 hours over night to actually download an HD film. Streamed, this would have been unwatchable.

VisionMan

teddysmum wrote: »

Many have neither fibre nor a reasonable ADSL speed, so streaming would be of very poor quality for them.

Thats no longer true, actually. Fibre is now available to over 90% of the UKs population and the average UK internet speed is 22.8Mbit/s, up from 18.7Mbit/s in May 2014. Even rural areas now get an average 13.7Mbit/s.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0030/78267/fixed-bb-speeds-nov15-consumer-summary.pdf

Now watch every user with a crap internet speed post on here...

VisionMan

AbbieCadabra wrote: »

i'm really struggling to find out what HD content is available on the now tv smart box, if anyone can help/point me in the right direction please?

There are no HD channels on Now TV. For sure they stream at both 526i and up to 720p but they are streamed at a variable bit rate of up to 2.5Mbps and down to 1.5. Tablets and mobiles are 450kbps.

AbbieCadabra wrote: »

p.s. is there any other way to get HD content & sky channels, inc. sports, apart from Sky? (can't have a sky dish at our house)

If you have sufficient broadband speeds YouView would suit. On TalkTalk they stream Sky Sports at 6.5Mbps but they don't offer HD. Netflix HD streams at 10. They also offer Sky entertainment channels.

BTs YouView offers HD, streamed over fibre only. 15Mbps min line speed required. Or Ultra HD (UHD) 46Mbps required. Netflix HD is streamed at 10, UHD at 19, though they ask for an overhead of 25.
But BT don't offer Sky's entertainment channels.

As you can see, theres no easy way around this and Sky have dilberately made it this way to really make their Satellite platform the only go-to option. Well, they are a business after all.

Marvqn1

boliston wrote: »

It's about time sky offered a fully internet based service that does not rely on a dish.

Isn't that what Sky Go is? Or is it only available to Sky customers who have a dish?

DCFC79

Marvqn1 wrote: »

Isn't that what Sky Go is? Or is it only available to Sky customers who have a dish?

Sky go is where Sky customers can watch stuff on the go.