Options
now tv monthly pass
duffman25
Posts: 966 Forum Member
✭✭
they now doing a monthly pass for £31.99 rip of it is http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/broadcasters/sky-offers-monthly-now-tv-pass/5089459.article
0
duffman25
Posts: 966
Comments
No its not, its £25.50 on satellite. They should offer it cheaper on IPTV boxes as the quality and service isn't guaranteed like Freeview or Satellite. Sky Sports has always been a rip off on Now TV compared to other formats.
If the £31.99 also covered the Now TV Entertainment pack as well, then that would be tempting. Solely for Sports with no recording it seems quite pricey...AND they will have to provide 100% problem free coverage at that premium price.
If you don't want to pay £32 for it - then don't.
I like international cricket and Formula One so the Now TV service is very useful to me. Will be buying week passes for the first three tests and maybe a month pass to cover last two and Italian GP.
As I watch some things on a 1080 projector with a big screen I really need HD. I have some Apple TV boxes which are the only ones which actually do live stuff in HD, which is at 720 but is adequate.
http://help.nowtv.com/article/Streaming-Quality
To get HD sport on Sky satellite you need to buy the Family pack as well as the sport, which is £66.75 a month.
I've watched many hours since I got the system and the quality has been faultless so far. Though I suspect that the 720p Apple live streams are fed from separate servers, probably paid for by Apple.
Reports of the SD service I've seen have been mixed.
so for me the idea for a month pass good, but not at this price, i would very much prefer just to buy access for just one event, like darts and that's it, i'm sure they have to tech to do it, and sky are missing out as not everyone likes football, or cricket etc...
but i like F1 darts and wwe and would be happy to pay for just this,
As for video quality, it is true that online delivery still has improvements that need to be made. I watch live TV exclusively through the Internet these days, and I rarely have an issue with Now TV anymore (it used to be quite common, but things have improved dramatically). That said, unfortunately during the biggest events, the quality can drop due to excessive traffic (the least time you want this to happen). But this will no doubt eventually go away as well.
As for Satellite TV being always perfect, it may have been for you, but not for me. Instead of bandwidth issues, my problem was related to weather. If there were strong winds, snow or driving rain, I also experienced problems that were no much different to the Internet ones, and sometimes resulted in a complete loss of picture.
It is sad this is gone for OTT customers. It was cheaper, but it lacked a couple of things that Now TV had - video quality was generally lower than Now TV and it had horrific platform support. Still, it was indeed cheaper and offered more channels on the Entertainment package.
This is a great idea!
While I was going on above about how much better value Now TV's Monthly pass is, the fact remains that £32 is still expensive for just sports, and most of this comes from that EPL deal they keep making. Unfortunately, they rely on everyone paying for that, including those who don't even watch sports- (they recently increased prices for non sports packages to cover the new costs).
You are right. There is a weekly pass and even a ridiculously expensive daily pass. The weekly and monthly are better value.
Actually, the Apple TV is not the only HD feed despite their website saying so. Perhaps they are testing it on other platforms before they officially announce it.
See the test results on this review (averaged over a half hour). The graph shows the Apple TV averaging 3870kbps, Roku at 3705kbps and the Xbox One averaging 3740kbps, which are effectively all 720p HD.
Yesterday a relative came round who has the Sky satellite HD sport, and watching a few overs of the cricket he remarked "I didn't know you had Sky".
"I don't, that's Now TV's streaming service".
His jaw dropped when I told him the monthly price, and how good the picture was, and I think he'ss drop Sky and go to Now as he isn't interested in the so-called "entertainment" package.
If there are many doing that, I wonder if Sky will either allow a simple sports-only sub on Satellite, or more likely bump the prices up on NOW to the same level as the minimum requirement on satellite.
If they did the latter that will naff off those like myself who are subbing via NOW but would never sub to the main service.
Now I don't usually have dreams which are as technical as that.
A better service might make more go for the monthly pass, which if you don't cancel automatically repeats for the following month - obviously Sky would prefer that.
Has anyone else heard the same thing - or am I going nuts ??
I have the monthly pass currently active.
I'm doing a longer burn-in, and I can post my test results in a graph later if you like... (with comparisons to how it was a few months ago)