Could you theoretically install Now TV on Kodi, or by sideloading the app on to the Amazon Fire Stick? Thanks!

Can be done on fire stick. Go to YouTube and search for instructions..quite straightforward.

Problem with this is that the Android app still gets the poorer streams with the dodgy audio. Not too bad through rubbish mobile speakers, but you'll notice it on your TV.

Why would you install now tv if you have kodi,pretty much everything on now tv will be in Jodi for free

hmmm.. dunno, maybe some people like to pay for content so the people who create them can get paid? Could be a reason...

I only have Sky Movies on Now TV with an offer for the next 4 months at £4 a month cheaper than adding them on satellite and still in 720p, at least via the PS3 app, the live movies channels are just the Sky Movies as if receiving them from satellite. Believe it or not there was a source on one of the Kodi add ons for the live Sky Movies channels but it was pretty poor quality and one channel had the wrong aspect ratio, not worth bothering with the effort of setting a stream up if it's only going to be unwatchable, NOW TV is obviously the real thing which will be reliable.

Kodi does have a lot of movies with the add ons but you need some patience, sometimes you'll get a promising list only for most movies to simply not work, I tried to watch "Spectre" on there for instance, I did manage to find it but only after 5 or 6 tries in different lists. I imagine a lot of ordinary people just getting annoyed and giving up, whilst with perseverance you may still get what you want. Given you have to manually configure Kodi with add ons it's in the realm of enthusiasts rather than people who don[t want to faff and just watch something without having to have technical knowledge perhaps, what it does do however is very impressive.

I did sideload the NOW TV app but was told it was unauthorised so there must have to be a different method.

Well if it took you an eternity to find a working link for Spectre on Kodi did you have the right Movie add on. Im no expert and ive only had Kodi on my Stick for about 2 weeks but with 2 movie add ons i have no trouble whatsoever. Im surprised a lot more people dont get NowTv rather than pay for a subscription. Ok it might not be 1080p which should be standard now days but better than nothing. I expect when they release the new NowTv Box later this year it will be 1080p and maybe also 4k.

By the time content is on TV/online streaming, the people who create them have been paid a long time since. Most of the money at TV/streaming level is going into the service and studios pockets, at that point very little to none goes to the people who actually make these things.

Fine, an argument could go along the lines of the money going on to fund future projects but it doesn't quite work like that.

Source: I work in the production industry.

That is all well and good perhaps for movies and certain tv shows, but we all know Kodi is massively popular for live sports and being able to access streams of Sky Sports, BT. foreign channels showing PL football and so on.

Now, a sports-mad Kodi user would use the defence of "A Sky sub is too expensive nowadays" and for a large part I am in complete agreement. However, does that justify using an IPTV/Android box to access premium sports content for free? If everybody in the country did that and Sky had zero sports customers, the obvious result would be they'd close their channels down, and the Premier League would suddenly go from being the richest and most prestigious football league in the world to one of the poorest, and it would affect the English game at all levels for years to come.

It could feasibly happen in other countries too. I think while Kodi is still "on the fringes" as it were, it's relatively harmless to sports and other media/broadcasting industries. But if it continues to grow like it has been doing this last year, then it could do more harm than good. People need paying for what they provide, it's simple as that.

Tell the Broadcasters then such as Sky and BT to stop paying a fortune for sport rights then. I live with my girlfriend and we pay £70 a month for Virgin. This simply has got out of control now so yes if people can get a firetvstick or a cheap Android Box of course there gonna watch sports or movies. Im not saying its right because it isnt but Broadcasters need to bring down prices to a level that is acceptable to all. Why is it that a person in Ireland can watch Premiership football at 3pm and we are not allowed that to me simply does not make sense. Do the Premier league and Sky really think that it would have an effect on Attendances at Football grounds if they let us watch these matches at a price that is right. As long as other EU countries and the rest of the world are allowed to watch premiership football and UK is left out in the cold i dont see an end to illegal streaming.

That would be a great outcome, it's all way too overpriced and overhyped and footballers are paid far too much, if Kodi could eventually bring it all back down more to earth I will be drinking champagne in celebration when it happens!

Or more realistically, we'd all be moaning after thousands of people in the media industry lose their jobs and we are left with a television service of lesser significance and quality than a third world nation. Be careful what you wish for.

I think it is the entertainment subscribers who pay such ludicrously high sums and see much of their subs spent on sport. It is long overdue that sports and entertainment were kept separate then thise only interested in entertainment pay for what they receive and sports fans pay the true cost of what is paid for sport.