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Question of the Day: How do you normally pay for purchases in stores?
Showtime coming to Hulu
- Thread starter bwana
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sybertiger
Expert Member
do when i get the entertainment pass i pay 7pounds and can stream those channels live from my pc,and get the movies?
are there any other services like that? where i can pay and get live tv online?
Are you referring to NowTV?
sybertiger
Expert Member
yes,i saw it last night,and now u also mentioned it so thought i will ask 
another question,is there a way u can get "SkyGo" here in south africa, or virgin media
i know someone in the UK that have skyTv,so if i login with there name i can view it here|?
another question,is there a way u can get "SkyGo" here in south africa, or virgin media
i know someone in the UK that have skyTv,so if i login with there name i can view it here|?
yes,i saw it last night,and now u also mentioned it so thought i will ask
another question,is there a way u can get "SkyGo" here in south africa, or virgin media
i know someone in the UK that have skyTv,so if i login with there name i can view it here|?
NowTV's entertainment package gives you access to Sky1, Sky Living, Sky Atlantic, Gold, Comedy Central, Sky Arts, iTV Encore, Fox, MTV, Discovery, Disney, Nickelodeon, and NickJr live streams as well as box sets, popular shows etc for £7/pm
If you want movies you'll want to sign up for Sky Movies which is £10/pm.
Don't know about SkyGo but it should work.
A service better than NowTV and it's free with more channels.
TVPlayer
Here is the channel list
http://tvplayer.com/channels/
Only need a decent DNS service then you can watch on your PC or on the Android app.
Will also launch premium channels below later this year for 5 Pounds.
This is much better than trying dead streams in XBMC.
I also tried http://www.iptvchoice.com/ and their stream quality was very good and had no buffering.
You can ask for a 12-hour test account.
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Those Channels on the image aren't live yet?
FWIW the quality of the channels streams is appalling. Seeing as most of them are freely available anyway I cannot see the point.
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Thestealth
Expert Member
I'm test driving Showtime on Hulu as well. Streams and quality is good, not sure if I want to pay the $8? for the subs though. @bwana, are you streaming NowTV? If so, are you using a Roku or DroidTV player?
I'm streaming NowTV with a NowTV box… basically a rebranded roku they sell for £10.
Thestealth
Expert Member
Cool. Can one buy one, have it shipped, plug in start watching? I already have a Roku so I want to understand if I need another device or if a side load of the app is possible (on the Roku)
I'm not sure who ships them to SA but yeah, it will work. Even if you decide you don't want to subscribe to NowTV you can still use it for things like bbc iplayer.
I'm not sure about side loading apps on the roku. Since the NowTV app is only available for the UK roku accounts that would be the only option if you can do it.