Now TV passes

Cool, will have to empty my local shop later.

I would like to see more football on Eurosport as there not bad for a years subscription @ £25 approx.

Last year I used it for snooker and some women’s football, the latter being more background noise.

I have entertainment and movies with now on my phone and 3 boxes scattered round the house but I do sometimes treat my self to a sports pass. But tbh I prefer to listen to the football on the radio.

We pay for BT sports monthly by months, via EE.

May be worth grabbing an ee pay n go sim, just to a  get the free 6 months BT sports access.

We signed up via EE, and I think it’s supposed to only work on mobile, but I mostly watch via the windows metro app.

Also once the free 6 months runs out, I think it’s only 5 or 6£ ish, give it had all the euro football, it’s worth it for me.

The metro app is decent, just a normal tv app, but on android (and probably ios) it is fantastic, in the play bar it highlights all the action points that have happened in a game, and you can easily jump back to view, AND you can control the camera angles, a bit like watching hung a goal re play on fifa footy games. As it keeps real time states of the game. Once you use it, you will all other sports experiences lacking in comparison.

I will often have my seconed phone (usually my 6p) to watch the non vital football games, off to one side. Some refuse to watch sport or media on a phone, I think it’s probably the best way to watch most things now. You have total emersion, and a 6″ 1080p or 2k phone from 12″ is like a 70″ 8k tv from 10′.

I know I rarely choose to pit the t but on to watch something. My tv I use for background noise, ie I put twit tv on in the background. That’s about all I use one for these days.

I watch a lot of telly on the phone (Gym, train etc) – and agree it is a very decent experience. TV s a shole is so different now, and one reason I think Sky Q is less and less attractive is that – who needs to tape 6 things at once when you can get the all off catch up when it suits?

Aside from live sport, most of what I watch is stuff that has been recommended to me, nearly always on freeview, and easy enough to find after the fact.

I think the delivery platform is less and less relevant – Sky’s mistake – as the content is dispersed all over the place.  NowTV is an example of something they do well – selling their own content through multiple platforms – Sky Q is an example of something they do badly – a bespoke platform still assuming that people will have Sky as the hub of their entertainment solution, even though they are now one of many shows in town.

Back to the topic, they should run the beer promos alongside the crisp ones – marriage made in heaven.

No argument from me that Sky is becoming irrelevant. I recorded my quitting of the Q-Box here a while ago: If I want to see GoT 8 when it hits the screen next, I have a NowTV box which I have to setup soon. I am going to run it alongside the Freesat box * via a network switch. The corner of the room where the cables reside, is going to house even more cables and connections soon! I am enjoying the Freesat service, with Sky we found that we were mostly watching programmes from Freeview and Freesat anyway. Thanks for the eurosport tips guys, going to look into that. I am a bit strapped for time to do stuff atm, as SWMBO is having several appointments before going in for her new hip on the 21st. My poor old Gert is suffering quite badly now and walking is a trial for her. I shall be chief cook, carer and cleaner after she comes out of the NHS workshop. In addition, we are having landscaping done at the rear of the bungalow, to make the back garden low maintenance. Things are a bit hectic here atm, daughter is also moving into her old house, which is now a new one after a rebuild taking almost 15 months.

*A few niggles with the Humax box: HD programmes have very loud volume compared to non-HD and that has to be controlled with a mix of Samsung soundbar remote and Humax remote. Procedure for switching off has to be – first switch off Humax box with Humax remote, wait for Humax box light to go completely red (Standby). Then switch off Sony TV with TV remote. Switching on again: turn on Humax box with Humax remote and wait for bootup. (it goes from red to purple, to blue) Freesat service boots up on TV after about a minute, TV remote not needed until switching off  for the night. NEVER turn off the Humax box, leave on Standby.

Failure to follow this routine leads to having to setup the service all over again, I found.

Sony Bravia 40″ (unsmart) TV, Samsung simple soundbar, Humax HD-R 1100S Freesat box. TV connected to soundbar by optical toslink, and to the Humax by HDMI lead. TV also has an ethernet connection and another HDMI socket, which will take the NowTV box eventually.

Thanks BL. Sorry for the tardy response, been out in the (cold) sunshine all day with No.2 gson, who is helping us get the rear garden cleared ready for landscaping. He’s back tomorrow for more, doing the heavy lifting (big old slabs)

I don’t understand the HDMI-CEC references, but will Google it and should find out. Very tired atm, soon off to bed. Thanks for the advice.

Thanks BL, had a great sleep actually, best for ages, totally zonked out. Grandson got some more gardening done but I had to break off when I received news that his sister had been taken home from the restaurant ill: shaking, dizzy and falling over. Took her to the local hospital and (after a 3 hour wait) they found nothing wrong, advised her to see GP tomorrow. So she is in our lounge atm waiting for dad to come hme from work.

Just 20 minutes ago, had an online conversation with Humax about the issues. It was one onscreen setting on the box – change Audio to “Stereo” from “Multi channel”. Did that, problem solved. Last night I Googled HDMI-CEC after your earlier post and also set that. (It was off) SWMBO was beginning to blame her new hearing aids, saying the sound was harsh, whilst I could not hear it like that.

It seems to be OK now anyway. If it stays that way I will be able to setup the NowTV box and move the HiFi speakers to the shelf besides the TV. Then I can tidy up all the rats nest of cables. If no one else is going to need granddad’s taxi/ambulance/shopping trolley/parcel transporter. (Have done some of that this week, or doing it tomorrow.)