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New NOW app from 18th February

Profile closed — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 19:41:22 GMT

I know a few people have been on the trial and this news has been knocking around on other forums in dribs and drabs, but it is good to finally get confirmation that the new NOW app will start rolling out from 18th February.

BT/EE TV boxes and the Apple TV 4K are supported.

Story here (other sources are available): Cordbusters - Sky’s NOW Is About To Get Its Biggest Shake-up Yet

The upcoming changes, announced today and coming in February, are more than just a fresh coat of paint.
NOW is migrating to NBCUniversal’s Global Streaming Platform – the same technology that powers Peacock in the US and SkyShowtime in Europe.

You can find out more about the new features you can expect directly from NOW here: New features on NOW

Highlights (for me) are:

Redesigned home page and a fresh look throughout
Up to 6 profiles with personalised recommendations and watchlist
Kids profiles
Enhanced sports section

Looking forward to seeing how these changes impact the user experience, whoever gets the update first is contractually bound to update this thread with feedback! 🤣

Re: New NOW app from 18th February

Profile closed — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 19:43:56 GMT

@Profile closed

Good shout👍

I’m subscribed to Cordbusters, but haven’t had their email yet.

Re: New NOW app from 18th February

Weerab2024 — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 21:21:08 GMT

@Profile closed great news. Been looking forward to this with high hopes.

@Profile closed the cordbusters email round up usually comes on a Saturday for me. Busy week with all the other news. I usually pick up it's news on Facebook

Re: New NOW app from 18th February

Profile closed — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 10:06:26 GMT

@Weerab2024

Good tip. I don’t do FB any more, but am on X, and now following @cordbusters 👍

Re: New NOW app from 18th February

jonathanteague — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 04:00:41 GMT

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Interesting news and I wonder how sports will be improved. Really hoping for the following:

1. Option to watch from beginning or live

2. Faster on demand availability. Ideally like any other streaming service who make it available almost instantly after the event has finished.

Re: New NOW app from 18th February

Profile closed — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 09:42:30 GMT

I would also like to see those features @jonathanteague, although you have to wonder if Sky will go that far because, on excellent hardware like an Apple TV 4K, a fully featured NOW app is a Sky Stream killer IMHO.

Re: New NOW app from 18th February

Profile closed — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 09:52:04 GMT

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I always used to think of Now as a kind of Sky Lite, but if the offer is improved they could end up with a VW/Skoda situation - same bang for less bucks and unintended consequences 🤔

Re: New NOW app from 18th February

SwannyD2 — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 10:43:06 GMT

I think you should temper your expectations about it launching on any YouView EE devices on the date they have mentioned.

Especially if there are any changes to the structure or delivery of content, or code needs to be updated at a software level.

Considering that EE still doesn’t offer Now in UHD (despite the ulticast streams continuing to test in the background). Both have presumably been in the works for awhile, and there’s still so no sign of any EE devices getting UHD.

Have Now or EE actually confirmed these changes will happen at the same time as other devices?

I’d say you should be holding out for it to be launching on Apple TV, because that’s most likely place it’ll launch first - negating the complicated arrangement of YouView, Sky and EE working together.

Re: New NOW app from 18th February

Weerab2024 — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 05:00:20 GMT

I imagine Roku sticks, fire sticks and apple TV boxes will have the updated app first.

Everything seems to take a little while longer on youview boxes, but who knows, they might have access to it behind the scenes to get an update ready being pro active.

Re: New NOW app from 18th February

Profile closed — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 13:14:30 GMT

I’m not sure what will arrive quicker, the new NOW app or the official picture supplied by Sky I shared in my original post? 🤣

Re: New NOW app from 18th February

Weerab2024 — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 13:33:09 GMT

So my Hisense freely tv now has the new Now TV app and spoiler alert, it has HD channels by default and I don't have the Now TV boost, and it's with my EE account login.

Looks like the cats out the bag somewhere along the line unless it's an error and I'm getting excited for nothing 😂