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NOW TV Adds Netflix App And Launches New 4K Streaming Box

A week after Sky added a “Netflix Package” to their traditional subscription, their streaming service – NOW TV – adds a Netflix app to its streaming devices. Additionally, NOW TV is launching a new 4K “Smart Box“, for a particularly low price. Historically, NOW TV was supposed to be Sky’s answer to Netflix and Amazon Prime Video – for a cheap monthly price, and no contracts, you get access to a library of movies

Sep 26, 2018 3:57pm 2 Comments

NOW TV Launches New Sky Sports Mobile Pass: Cheap, But Limited

TV cord cutters in the UK don’t have too many options when it comes to sports – but starting today, there’s an interesting cheap new offer from NOW TV: A Sky Sports mobile subscription, priced at only £5.99/month. The catch? You can only watch it on a mobile device, and there are only 4 Sky Sports channels (as opposed to 10 on NOW TV’s other Sky Sports packs). Normally, the NOW

Sep 19, 2018 6:14pm No Comments

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Sky Is Adding A “Netflix Package” – But It’s Still A Bad Deal

Netflix is Coming to Sky: Back in March, we told you about Sky’s new partnership with Netflix, which would add Netflix’ streaming service to Sky’s “traditional” subscription model, as well as to NOW TV. The first part of that deal is now happening – and Sky Q customers will be able to add a Netflix subscription via their Sky Q box. While there is no news yet on when the

Sep 19, 2018 9:51am No Comments

Manhattan T2-R Review: A Top Freeview Recorder With A Decent Price

A top Freeview recorder box with a 500GB hard drive, smart recording and a super-fast interface. But is it for everyone? Find out in my Manhattan T2-R review

Sep 17, 2018 8:13am No Comments

BBC iPlayer Dominates The Summer – Thanks To Live Sports

Those who are still wondering whether cord cutting is here to stay – should take a look at the BBC iPlayer’s July numbers. The BBC’s streaming TV service broke its July record, with viewership up 19% compared to July 2017 – and a lot of it is thanks to live sports, with England’s quarter-final World Cup game being the BBC’s highest online-viewed live programme ever. Earlier this year, we reported about iPlayer’s strongest

Sep 8, 2018 8:38am No Comments

Cord Busters Nominated For 2018 UK Money Bloggers Award

Leading UK cord cutting blog nominated for “Best Specialist Money Blog”, as part of the annual UK Money Bloggers awards ceremony

Aug 25, 2018 9:16am No Comments

NOW TV Adds “hayu”, A Reality TV Channel, As A Separate On-Demand Pass

Have you been looking for ways to Keep Up with the Kardashians, or the Real Housewives, as a TV cord cutter? Now you have another, cheap way to do so, thanks to NOW TV’s newly added “hayu” pass – a channel full of (mostly American) reality TV shows. While it’ll normally cost you £3.99, NOW TV are introducing the new pass with a special deal. NOW TV is Sky’s answer to

Aug 4, 2018 8:52am No Comments

UK Milestone: Streaming TV Becomes More Popular Than Traditional Pay TV

It’s been a long time coming, but cord cutting and streaming TV are finally taking over the UK television market. According to a new Ofcom report, more people in the UK now subscribe to streaming services such as Netflix and NOW TV, than are subscribed to the “traditional” pay-tv services such as Sky and BT. According to the report, in the first quarter of 2018 there were 15.4 million UK

Jul 18, 2018 1:09pm No Comments

Updated: Best Amazon Prime Day 2018 Deals For UK TV Lovers

Amazon Prime Day Is Here! Forget Black Friday – in recent years, Amazon have created their own holiday full of deals and cheap items and services – Prime Day. Of course, the tricky bit is to sort out the good offers – so I’m here to help. Remember, while there are good bargains to be found, it’s important to keep in mind not every “Sale!” you see is necessarily the

Jul 16, 2018 2:54pm No Comments

Netflix Is Testing A Considerable Price Increase Via New “Ultra” Tier

Some Netflix subscirbers around Europe have been seeing a new pricing table – with a considerably pricier new “Ultra” tier

Jul 5, 2018 9:27am No Comments

Amazon Offers Four Premium TV Channels For Free – With One Catch

How would you like to get four premium, paid (normally) TV channels – Discovery, Shudder, BFI and MGM, completely free for three months? That’s what Amazon is offering its UK customers this month, ahead of their annual Prime Day. The catch? You need to be an Amazon Prime subscriber (but you can get a free trial of that as well.) Amazon Channels is an add-on service for Prime subscribers, launched in the

Jul 4, 2018 5:47pm No Comments

Amazon Unveils The “Fire TV Cube” With Streaming And Alexa – When Will It Come To The UK?

A new device is joining the Amazon Fire TV family of streaming devices – and this time, it’s a hybrid of an Amazon Echo, a Fire TV streaming device, a speaker – and even a universal remote of sorts. The device is available for pre-order now for $120 (or $89.99 for Prime users – for one day only) – but unfortunately, it’s only available in the US for the time being. As

Jun 7, 2018 6:41pm No Comments