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If anyone is interested in sports, and drinks carling, this may be of use:

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/fre...uy-carling-15pk-for-9-from-sainsburys-1701749

Also Sky are trialing a movie rental service, I got an email the other day asking if I wanted to take part in the beta. Means that as well as the movie channels you'll be able to rent newer films through the box, a bit like sky box office now I assume? Not had sky for a while so dunno!
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Do people really drink Carling?!!
 
tek-monkey

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4od works a treat, watched it last night. That means you are only missing ITV from the catchup services now.

On another note I see topcashback are offering £10 cashback if you pay for one month of movies at £8.99. You get a month free anyway, so you get 2 months of sky movies taking you through xmas and beyond and a profit of £1. This can be used on any device, but topcashback also have £2 cashback on the nowTV box. Couple that with the free quid from the movie deal, and you are paying just £7 for a media player with lots of catchup services plus 2 months of sky movies. For anyone with kids and no movie package this could be a good buy to keep them entertained over xmas?

If you don't have topcashback please sign up through my link in my signature. Pretty please?
 
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i finally got round to bunging plex on my nowtv box at the weekend.. christ on a bike, it's amazing! :o

it refuses to pick up some media files up if they are not named quite how it is expecting them (i.e. following tvdb rules), but renaming them seems to solve that.. i like the way it doesn't write meta data to media, or otherwise modify your files in any way, so you can point it at your "live" torrent folder and watch stuff from there without worrying about it changing the file/checksum and messing with your torrent client..

i am thinking about getting another one for a friend.. what is the current best way of procuring them, if the sole intention is to bang plex on and use it to stream media? should i just get one from nowtv.com, using a new email address & account details? anything i need to be wary of?
 
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Glad you got it running in the end :)

You can buy as many as you want, I've purchased 6 through the same account. You can also have up to 4 devices connected to one nowTV account to share subscriptions should you want to, although only 2 can watch at once (I've had 6 boxes running off 2 accounts when I got the cheap movies deal).
 
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Just want to add to this, if anyone likes the idea of one of these boxes but is put off by the 720p then there is a better version available that is on sale at the minute.

The roku2 XS is 1080p, has a wired ethernet port as well as wireless, has a microSD slot and a remote with tilt sensors. Apparently it also has bluetooth and a USB port but I can't see the USB port on the box and I think the bluetooth may be only for remotes? Only downside is its £50, but they are cracking little devices.

http://www.ebuyer.com/393824-roku-2-xs-media-streamer-roku-2-xs

For a comparison of the different models look here, the nowTV is a rebadged LT:
http://support.roku.com/entries/20345913-Product-Comparison-All-Roku-Player-Models
 
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Also, just to add that there are new versions of the plex clients available for the nowTV. The first link is for the 'vanilla' plex app, the second is for a modified version that adds trailers, rotten tomatoes scores and a few other bits and pieces to plex but otherwise is the same. I use rarflix nowadays, there can be a slight delay going into the item as it searches rotten tomatoes but I think its worthwhile. The guy behind it is very active in the community, and even now rents 2 server instances himself from amazon to cache external data to speed everything up. If you use it please donate, even if just a few quid. There is a link under his posts in the dev thread here:
https://forums.plex.tv/index.php/topic/79897-rarflix-modified-roku-channel/

Original plex:
https://forums.plex.tv/index.php/topic/75573-plex-on-the-sky-now-tv-box/?p=542471

Rarflix:
https://forums.plex.tv/index.php/topic/79897-rarflix-modified-roku-channel/
 
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I'm desperately waiting for something that can replicate my smartphones screen on my TV rather than having to hook it up with a cable.... anything out there that fits the bill for a bargain price?
 
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My Name is URL said:
I'm desperately waiting for something that can replicate my smartphones screen on my TV rather than having to hook it up with a cable.... anything out there that fits the bill for a bargain price?
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apple tv makes this incredibly easy from iOS devices, but i'm assuming that doesn't fit the bill ;)

you don't even have to "pair" devices or set anything up - i was well impressed when we had visitors recently who wanted to show us the photos they took at our wedding, and they just pressed a button on their iphone (having never set foot in our house before) and they were instantly displayed on our TV!
 
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My Name is URL said:
I'm desperately waiting for something that can replicate my smartphones screen on my TV rather than having to hook it up with a cable.... anything out there that fits the bill for a bargain price?
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Not sure on replicating the whole screen I'm afraid, never tried it. There is an app called playto that can fire media at the nowTV, but not the actual screen of the phone.
 
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db said:
apple tv makes this incredibly easy from iOS devices, but i'm assuming that doesn't fit the bill ;)
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Indeed and i'm all the richer for it haha....

db said:
you don't even have to "pair" devices or set anything up - i was well impressed when we had visitors recently who wanted to show us the photos they took at our wedding, and they just pressed a button on their iphone (having never set foot in our house before) and they were instantly displayed on our TV!
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I think as Chromecast gets going that will fit the bill nicely but a) its not released in the UK yet but you can import them at a premium and b) not too many apps support it at the moment but that will quickly change.

On the note of Apple TV and simplicity, I wanted to transfer a file to my wifes phone - after trying to upload it to dropbox and it taking ages I read about an App called File Beam (Touch to Send) and basically if you have two phones with NFC, just select the file in file manager, choose share and select file beam and then touch the phones.... this will instantly pair the phones over bluetooth and make the transfer.... none of this "switch bluetooth on, make the device discoverasble, search for the device, select it, pair it, put the pin number in....." business.

If they can replicate that in Smart TV's and even ICE then will make things so much simpler I think.
 
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Hi Tek / anyone else....

Have been reading this thread for a while wishing there might be some genius that could hack Android onto this to save me shelling out £50 for an Android box.... that is not to be so anyway...

I am interested in this Plex software but could you summarise a) what it needs to work and b) what it can do?

AFAIUI you can have a PC with films on running somewhere in the house and then stream (?) those films to the box with plex on? Now my issue with that is that I don't have a spare PC to have all of the films on and if I did, i'm too much of a tight arse to have a PC running 24/7 costing me electricity....

Anyway at the weekend I finally binned my old netbook but removed the HDD first and have since ordered an external enclosure for it. I also have an old router somewhere with a USB port on and I believe it supports DNLA...... so ultimately I am wondering if I can use the HDD with films / music on, connected to my router, to stream stuff to this box.... which will only cost £10.....

Are they still doing the cheap 6 months subscriptions to Movies too?
 
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I think there is a DLNA client on it, maybe its the playTo channel, not entirely positive. That certainly lets you send youtube videos from your phone to it, but no idea what else. I believe you may be able to sideload a better DLNA client (mediabrowser?) but I've not tried it as you can only sideload one app and I need that for plex.

AFAIK there are no cheap deals for sky movies anymore, and mine is about to run out too :(

EDIT: As far as power goes, I binned my old PC and went for a proper server. It uses around 50w when active, so around a fiver a month to run. The old one used triple that!
 
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