Sky Sports on NowTV through EE

[eb154]

The above is currently showing as £34.99 per month. What it doesn’t say is how it will be streamed. Is it their standard 720p? If so, that’s a bit steep and it’s cheaper to go direct to NowTV where you can get 1080p for £26 + £6. 

[zulu17]

See the recent announcement 

https://community.ee.co.uk/t5/TV/Inclusive-HD-with-EE-TV-sport-packages/td-p/1484850

Note that currently Now UltraBoost is not currently available with EE billed NOW subscriptions.

[Matt_124]

That is the 1 month rolling addon and is typically more expensive, the comparable Now product you are looking at has a 6 month minimum term.

I believe recently EE have now started to offer Sports in HD free of charge on newer packages for those on EE Broadband with EE TV. It shouldn't require "renewing" but simply changing your TV package which you can do every 30 days.

In that case you would likely be better flexing your TV package to something like Big Sport which would include TNT and Sky Sports and you can always Flex your TV package down again at another date as it can be done every 30 days up and down.

I would recommend calling EE and seeing how much it would be to add this by flexing your TV package. If it doesn't work out better, get it direct from NOW. It's just worth asking.

EDIT: see what @zulu17 posted above for the full information on the Inclusive HD.

[Midnight_Voice]

@eb154 

If you want Now cheap, EETV Is not the way to do it.

And in fact, neither is the 6 month lock-in deal with Now.

Instead, pay full price for month 1 direct with Now, and then instantly start to cancel. Now will auto-respond with a discount offer for the next few months, which you accept. When you get near the end of the discount deal, rinse and repeat, indefinitely.

What EETV offer with Now that you can’t get anywhere else is that the live Now channels are in the EPG, and if you have a Box Pro, you can record them. Lots of people find this valuable.

Another thing is that with Now via EETV, you just have one monthly bill, not several. Useful perhaps, but not anything I’d pay a premium for.

What EETV don’t currently offer is UltraBoost, which gives you all the Now channels in UHD. It’s coming, EETV claim, but there’s no date for this; if you want it now, you have to go to Now direct.

[eb154]

Thank you very much. Most informative and makes sense!

[Japling]

Can you log into NOW TV from BT/EE tv box and a non EE Apple 4K box from the same account, or do you have to cancel NOW TV from EE and get a subscription direct with NOW

[Matt_124]

You should be able to sign in to the same account billed through EE, as it functions the same as a normal Now TV account regardless of where the subscription comes from.

Just dependent on whether you have the Now TV Boost (or HD and 4K combo addon), there may be a limit on streaming concurrently on multiple devices. The same as Now TV would have themselves.

[Midnight_Voice]

@Japling 

Yes, but if it doesn’t go smoothly, note the contents of:-

https://community.ee.co.uk/t5/TV/now-tv/m-p/1491214#M7744

[BrainsSA]

This reminded me of a bizarre situation I was in at the start of the premier league season… I already had  EE TV box pro plus the Entertainment package which includes the Sky entertainment channels from NowTV.   I phoned up and asked EE to match the offer I had from NowTV directly for sky sports for £26/month. Was told EE will not match offers from NowTV and so I had no choice but to buy sky sports from NowTV directly. How crazy!

[Midnight_Voice]

@BrainsSA 

I expect EETV reasoned that Now’s £26 deal didn’t include putting the Sports channels in an EPG, from which you could record them 😛