Sky services in SA

R163 a day for sport? Why would anyone even thinking about this. Or R653/m for everything.Do i miss something here?
 
Biggie said:
R163 a day for sport? Why would anyone even thinking about this. Or R653/m for everything.Do i miss something here?
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Yes, subscribe to Sky go instead of Sky Now if you want sport. Sky now sport day pass is just for those once off sporting events if you don't watch much.
 
calypso said:
From what I recall there was something else preventing one from subscribing. Needed local address or something like that. Can you please describe application process? I wonder what if this will work on a Roku.
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You can get Sky Now on Roku, you can't get Sky Go on Roku.
Try to sign up using the links in my post, if it works then great. If it does not work try different thing, UK VPN, UK DNS Service, spoof UK address, etc.

Now TV worked with any credit card and a UK postcode.
 
Hogrod said:
Yes, subscribe to Sky go instead of Sky Now if you want sport. Sky now sport day pass is just for those once off sporting events if you don't watch much.
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Yes,but it's still more expense than dstv.I know you can't do it for the sports so i'll have to assume it is for the movies and general entertainment/series.With a 6meg uncapped line you actually have no need for any tv service,but let's say you don't feel comfortable pulling your content with your uncapped line and you prefer to pay for it.I still then find it strange that you feel the need to do the right thing by going through all that effort to pay but at the same time have no problem side stepping the content's regional licensing laws.

I don't judge,if this setup works for you,then great.I'm just having a hard time understanding the reasoning behind it.
 
Biggie said:
Yes,but it's still more expense than dstv.I know you can't do it for the sports so i'll have to assume it is for the movies and general entertainment/series.With a 6meg uncapped line you actually have no need for any tv service,but let's say you don't feel comfortable pulling your content with your uncapped line and you prefer to pay for it.I still then find it strange that you feel the need to do the right thing by going through all that effort to pay but at the same time have no problem side stepping the content's regional licensing laws.

I don't judge,if this setup works for you,then great.I'm just having a hard time understanding the reasoning behind it.
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Because not everyone is a leecher and people deserved to paid for the work they do to provide us with entertainment.
 
Hogrod said:
I'll answer your question

First you need some of these things:

1 UK DNS service or UK VPN
2. Xbox or PC

Then subscribe to one of the following:

Sky Now TV (www.nowtv.com)
GBP8.99/month for Movie Channels
GBP4.99/month for Entertainment channels
GBP9.99/day for Sports channels day pass (no monthly option, only on Sky Go)

Or

Sky Go TV (http://www.sky.com/shop/tv/sky-go/).
GBP40/month = All in Sports,Movies,Entertainment

Both offer similar services from Sky, but differ in what you get and cost.

Enjoy.
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Thanks so much for this - I signed up as soon as I saw they offered Disney and Discovery - the only channels I missed when I cancelled DSTV early in the year. Had a few problems but as soon as I enabled NowTV in Unotelly's settings I was up and running.
 
Biggie said:
Yes,but it's still more expense than dstv.I know you can't do it for the sports so i'll have to assume it is for the movies and general entertainment/series.With a 6meg uncapped line you actually have no need for any tv service,but let's say you don't feel comfortable pulling your content with your uncapped line and you prefer to pay for it.I still then find it strange that you feel the need to do the right thing by going through all that effort to pay but at the same time have no problem side stepping the content's regional licensing laws.

I don't judge,if this setup works for you,then great.I'm just having a hard time understanding the reasoning behind it.
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Amount of effort is minimal compared to being a dstv customer. I've owned 4 hd pvr decoders in the past 6 years, now all broken. I'm sick of going to dstv. getting them replaced, or buying a new and waiting for the next hardware failure. Their UEC and PACE decoders are a joke, slow, buggy and unreliable.

After the 4th pvr failure, I went online, bought a subscription to xbox gold, unodns, netflix, and sky and I'm done. My xbox is 6 years old, it works perfectly. dstv could learn something.

I would say having Netflix is the best thing about my streaming setup. Quality and choice is key for me. I'll pay to get the service that gives me what I want and on demand.

Regional licensing law? If production and licensing companies were to take it seriously, companies like Sky and Netflix would not be allowed to offer a streaming service because they know their 'checks' can be bypassed with a $5 DNS service. I bet the shareholders don't care either!

Despite these 'laws', Sky and Netflix continue to add more channels and more content.
 
bwana said:
Thanks so much for this - I signed up as soon as I saw they offered Disney and Discovery - the only channels I missed when I cancelled DSTV early in the year. Had a few problems but as soon as I enabled NowTV in Unotelly's settings I was up and running.
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:) Yeah they just added the Discovery channel, major selling point for me :)
 
Hogrod said:
Amount of effort is minimal compared to being a dstv customer. I've owned 4 hd pvr decoders in the past 6 years, now all broken. I'm sick of going to dstv. getting them replaced, or buying a new and waiting for the next hardware failure. Their UEC and PACE decoders are a joke, slow, buggy and unreliable.

After the 4th pvr failure, I went online, bought a subscription to xbox gold, unodns, netflix, and sky and I'm done. My xbox is 6 years old, it works perfectly. dstv could learn something.

I would say having Netflix is the best thing about my streaming setup. Quality and choice is key for me. I'll pay to get the service that gives me what I want and on demand.

Regional licensing law? If production and licensing companies were to take it seriously, companies like Sky and Netflix would not be allowed to offer a streaming service because they know their 'checks' can be bypassed with a $5 DNS service. I bet the shareholders don't care either!

Despite these 'laws', Sky and Netflix continue to add more channels and more content.
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Ah ok,makes sense now.Thanks for explaining.
 
Hogrod said:
I'll answer your question

First you need some of these things:

1 UK DNS service or UK VPN
2. Xbox or PC

Then subscribe to one of the following:

Sky Now TV (www.nowtv.com)
GBP8.99/month for Movie Channels
GBP4.99/month for Entertainment channels
GBP9.99/day for Sports channels day pass (no monthly option, only on Sky Go)

Or

Sky Go TV (http://www.sky.com/shop/tv/sky-go/).
GBP40/month = All in Sports,Movies,Entertainment

Both offer similar services from Sky, but differ in what you get and cost.

Enjoy.
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40 * 15 = ZAR 600.00 just to get sky sport everyday ? How is that better than SS ?
 
bwana said:
Thanks so much for this - I signed up as soon as I saw they offered Disney and Discovery - the only channels I missed when I cancelled DSTV early in the year. Had a few problems but as soon as I enabled NowTV in Unotelly's settings I was up and running.
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A quick question before I sign-up, where you able to get this working on a Roku?
 
Actually have found the channel but get told the channel is not available in my region when trying to add it via the Roku website - anyway around this?
 
weelzSA said:
A quick question before I sign-up, where you able to get this working on a Roku?
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No, I used Unotelly and my mac mini. If you're using unotelly make sure the NowTV box it ticked.
 
calypso said:
Unotelly I imagine.
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I have unotelly and the box ticked in the settings. But I think the NowTV channel is only available for UK Roku so wondering if there isn't a way to get it on my Roku with a USA account?
 
With UNODNS, how does it work. Does everyone get their own IP for the DNS or how to they manage the users?


Does anyone know if there is a xbmc plugin for linux version of Sky Now TV.?
 
I tried installing NowTV on my xbox but I need to set up a VPN to download the app.

Apparently a xbox live gold account is also necessary so I'm probably going to stick to running it from the browser. Unless I buy one of their nowtv boxes. £9.99 doesnt sound too bad.
 
bwana said:
I tried installing NowTV on my xbox but I need to set up a VPN to download the app.

Apparently a xbox live gold account is also necessary so I'm probably going to stick to running it from the browser. Unless I buy one of their nowtv boxes. £9.99 doesnt sound too bad.
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I used a free uk vpn to get the xbox app. Never needed it again after that.
Then unotelly to watch :)

E.g: http://www.bestukvpn.com/
 
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