Originally Posted by Virgil Tracy:
“can I jump in here and ask -
how does payment work ? I mean I assume you get the 'free' channels for free , including their catch-ups right ? and if you wanna watch Atlantic you have to pay ? but how do they take payment ? This is Sky yes ?
I ask because so many people I know have had problems cancelling Sky packages , and having to phone up endlessly to cancel etc.
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Now TV is run by Sky, but it operates like a modern video-on-demand service like Netflix. This means you can cancel at any time, and without any obligation.
This part is real, and I've cancelled and restarted a few times. They don't even bother you once you cancel (although, they may offer you a really good deal that you may reconsider

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To cancel, you don't need to contact them, you just go to your account page in the Now TV website, and select cancel. Simple as that. Your subscription will run to the end of the month and then stop.
You can still use all the FTA catch-up services without issue (BBC iPlayer, All 4, etc) and never pay anything more, but you can always jump back in to Now TV and cancel again when you like.
I know how bad Sky were (and maybe still are with their Sat service), but they actually got Now TV right in this regard.