£10 box to bring catch-up TV, Sky Sports and Sky Movies to any TV set.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10203237/Now-TV-box-iPlayer-plus-Sky-Sports-and-Movies-without-subscription.html

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Rick writes:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...203237/Now-TV-
box-iPlayer-plus-Sky-Sports-and-Movies-without-subscription.html

But there's some small print. According to the article: "The box will
offer access to Sky Sports on a £9.99 day-by-day basis for the Ashes,
the Premier League, F1, and the US Open. It will also come with a 30-day
free trial of Sky Movies, and BBC iPlayer will be built-in. "

So as well as the cost of the box, if you want to watch a lot of sport
it will work out pretty expensive. And no doubt the same will be true of
movies once the 30-day free trial is over.
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In message , John Hall
writes
In article ,
Rick writes:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...203237/Now-TV-
box-iPlayer-plus-Sky-Sports-and-Movies-without-subscription.html

But there's some small print. According to the article: "The box will
offer access to Sky Sports on a £9.99 day-by-day basis for the Ashes,
the Premier League, F1, and the US Open. It will also come with a 30-day
free trial of Sky Movies, and BBC iPlayer will be built-in. "

So as well as the cost of the box, if you want to watch a lot of sport
it will work out pretty expensive. And no doubt the same will be true of
movies once the 30-day free trial is over.

Only £50 for a 5 day test match. :¬)
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"John Hall" wrote in message
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In article ,
Rick writes:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...203237/Now-TV-
box-iPlayer-plus-Sky-Sports-and-Movies-without-subscription.html

But there's some small print. According to the article: "The box will
offer access to Sky Sports on a £9.99 day-by-day basis for the Ashes,
the Premier League, F1, and the US Open. It will also come with a 30-day
free trial of Sky Movies, and BBC iPlayer will be built-in. "

So as well as the cost of the box, if you want to watch a lot of sport
it will work out pretty expensive. And no doubt the same will be true of
movies once the 30-day free trial is over.

This is just a(n) (optional) contract for the standard Sky "now" package.
No-one who wants a long term sport contract is going to use this, they're
gonna get a dish. Sky aren't expecting anybody will, so I think the article
suggesting that the target market for this is the sports offering is just
silly.

It would be good if Sky offered the sports package on a monthly PAYG tariff
but obviously they don't want to to do that as it would decimate the number
of customers who sign up for their full package.

The standard price for the movie package is 15 pounds per month. Perhaps
they don't see any cannibalisation here.

As a way of making your TV "smart" this is a bargain. You get all of the
"catch up" offering direct to your TV for a fraction of the price that the
other telcos charge, without having to go out and buy a new TV.

tim

and does it have audio description or can it be used if you cannot see I
wonder, for a tenner almost worth buying to find out.
I do have visions though in the future of having about 2-0 little boxes at
one end of the lounge all doing decoding or processing of one sort or
another to get at all the possible channels.

Worrying.
Brian

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"Rick" wrote in message
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10203237/Now-TV-box-iPlayer-plus-Sky-Sports-and-Movies-without-subscription.html

On 27/07/2013 21:19, Rick wrote:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology...........

£10 box that allows murdoch into your broadband, no thanks...

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Brian Gaff wrote:
and does it have audio description or can it be used if you cannot see I
wonder, for a tenner almost worth buying to find out.

I wouldn't bother. It's to enable watching internet delivered TV on your
TV, rather than your PC screen, so it's not going to offer any advantage
to you is it ? If there are no AD streams on i-player etc, then this box won't
magically add them.

As also noted by others, to access subscription Sky channels, you pay a tenner
a day ! Ha !


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"Martin" wrote in message
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On Sun, 28 Jul 2013 00:41:34 +0100, Ian
wrote:

In message , John Hall
writes
In article ,
Rick writes:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...203237/Now-TV-
box-iPlayer-plus-Sky-Sports-and-Movies-without-subscription.html

But there's some small print. According to the article: "The box will
offer access to Sky Sports on a £9.99 day-by-day basis for the Ashes,
the Premier League, F1, and the US Open. It will also come with a 30-day
free trial of Sky Movies, and BBC iPlayer will be built-in. "

So as well as the cost of the box, if you want to watch a lot of sport
it will work out pretty expensive. And no doubt the same will be true of
movies once the 30-day free trial is over.

Only £50 for a 5 day test match. :¬)

and £250 for the Ashes.

further to my previous post, a different article suggest that there is a 35
pounds per month "unlimited" option

tim

On 28/07/2013 10:08, Adrian C wrote:
On 27/07/2013 21:19, Rick wrote:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology...........

£10 box that allows murdoch into your broadband, no thanks...



he doesn't own sky.
a company he owns a bit of owns a bit of it - that's all.

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On Sun, 28 Jul 2013 13:29:25 +0100, the dog from that film you saw
wrote:

On 28/07/2013 10:08, Adrian C wrote:
On 27/07/2013 21:19, Rick wrote:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology...........

£10 box that allows murdoch into your broadband, no thanks...



he doesn't own sky.
a company he owns a bit of owns a bit of it - that's all.

He didn't actually say that Murdoch owned it, so your 'correction' was
pointless.
Murdoch does however control it via the various company Boards.