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*** Official TV Thread ***

Is anyone using NowTV via a streaming app to a large TV currently?

It’s time for me to dip back in to watch gangs of London, s2 of Save Me and S3 of Westworld.... but last time I had it the picture quality was absolute brick.

Low bit rate, at best 720p resolution. Couldn’t see 99% of dark scenes (so most of game of thrones) and horrible artefacts all over the picture. Bloody hated it, but may be a necessary evil to binge those 3 seasons.
 
Is anyone using NowTV via a streaming app to a large TV currently?

It’s time for me to dip back in to watch gangs of London, s2 of Save Me and S3 of Westworld.... but last time I had it the picture quality was absolute brick.

Low bit rate, at best 720p resolution. Couldn’t see 99% of dark scenes (so most of game of thrones) and horrible artefacts all over the picture. Bloody hated it, but may be a necessary evil to binge those 3 seasons.

I use a Plex server. Paid for and it covers a load of my needs. Reddit has some Plex Shares available regularly. Grab a trial and binge it is one option.

I pay a bit more for mine as I like 4k stuff and transcoding. It's still cheaper than paying for Sky
 
I’m 3 episodes in to this and it’s excellent. Like you, I’m no Basketball fan either, but that was an iconic team.
Very iconic
It’s slightly “engrossed” as it’s American
But it’s fair to say most people who follow sport knew the names of the key players
 
4/6 done of "This is Football", series on prime. Anyone else seen it?

It was quite hard to top the "Rwandan Reds" episode. Sure it had a fair amount of Liverpool cringe in there but was quite beautiful how football played a part in the country healing from the utterly horrific recent events.

The ladies football team one was great as well, I was just so glad the Japan team beat the US in the world cup final they covered as the American ladies are pretty much the textbook definition of insufferable.

Last two episodes have strayed a little bit on the average side with the german CEOs of clubs just playing up to the trying to say terribly enlightened things about football when it's just an advert for their club and whist the Iceland one was stunningly shot, it didn't seem to go a lot deeper than just about "togetherness" and "doing your best". I guess it seemed a little basic.
 
4/6 done of "This is Football", series on prime. Anyone else seen it?

It was quite hard to top the "Rwandan Reds" episode. Sure it had a fair amount of Liverpool cringe in there but was quite beautiful how football played a part in the country healing from the utterly horrific recent events.

The ladies football team one was great as well, I was just so glad the Japan team beat the US in the world cup final they covered as the American ladies are pretty much the textbook definition of insufferable.

Last two episodes have strayed a little bit on the average side with the german CEOs of clubs just playing up to the trying to say terribly enlightened things about football when it's just an advert for their club and whist the Iceland one was stunningly shot, it didn't seem to go a lot deeper than just about "togetherness" and "doing your best". I guess it seemed a little basic.
Spoiler.
 
Is anyone using NowTV via a streaming app to a large TV currently?

It’s time for me to dip back in to watch gangs of London, s2 of Save Me and S3 of Westworld.... but last time I had it the picture quality was absolute brick.

Low bit rate, at best 720p resolution. Couldn’t see 99% of dark scenes (so most of game of thrones) and horrible artefacts all over the picture. Bloody hated it, but may be a necessary evil to binge those 3 seasons.
Dunno if you opted for alternative service since the weekend but I see that NowTV have added a Boost option with 1080 plus Dolby Digital since I last used a pass to watch final season of Game of Thrones... got a couple of Entertainment passes that were on offer in Tesco a few months ago, so might binge on Westworld and Gangs of London...

https://www.avforums.com/news/now-tv-boost-adds-full-hd-and-5-1-audio.16876
 
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