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From today NOW TV customers with compatible iOS devices, and LG connected devices including LG Smart TVs, can now enjoy access to the new NOW TV Entertainment Month Pass.
Introduced at the end of October, the new NOW TV Entertainment Month Pass offers a simple, instant and contract-free way to stream ten top subscription TV channels including the likes of Sky 1, Sky Atlantic, Sky Living, Discovery and MTV. The addition of these new devices means even more ways for customers to watch some of the UK's most popular shows, both live and on demand on a pay-as-you-go basis - all for an introductory price of just £4.99 a month.
In the next month alone NOW TV customers can look forward to brand new premiere episodes of the very latest series including Karl Pilkington: The Moaning of Life (Sky 1), Dracula (Sky Living), The Tunnel (Sky Atlantic), A Young Doctor's Notebook & Other Stories (Sky Arts 1), Hello Ladies (Sky Atlantic), Yonderland (Sky 1), Geordie Shore (MTV) and American Horror Story (FOX).
In addition to current shows, the NOW TV Entertainment Month Pass also offers entire box sets of hit shows. Highlights include every episode of all five seasons of The Wire (Sky Atlantic) and seasons one to three of An Idiot Abroad (Sky 1) and Mad Dogs (Sky 1).
The NOW TV Entertainment Month Pass has been available to watch through the NOW TV Box, PS3, Roku, Macs and PCs since launch with Xbox and selected Android smartphones still to be introduced as part of a phased roll out.
More information on NOW TV is available from www.nowtv.com.
About NOW TV
NOW TV, powered by Sky, provides instant and easy access to hundreds of films from Sky Movies on demand, and pay-as-you-go access to live Sky Sports. Taking advantage of the rapid growth in broadband-connected devices, and building on Sky's experience in multi-platform TV, the service provides an additional choice to access and enjoy Sky Movies and Sky Sports.
NOW TV offers access to some of Sky's most popular programming. Sky Movies is the UK's most popular subscription movies service giving access to 800 different movies on demand including up to four new and exclusive Sky Movies premieres each week. With a Sky Movies Pass, NOW TV customers can choose from more of the latest and biggest movies first - 12 months before Netflix and Lovefilm Instant*.
NOW TV also offers a flexible way to access to Sky Sports. With a Sky Sports Day Pass customers can get pay-as-you-go access to exclusively live action from the Barclays Premier League, UEFA Champions League, Formula 1®, Test cricket, US and European Tour golf, ATP tennis, European and international rugby union and much more besides.
NOW TV is available to anyone 18 or over in the UK with a broadband or 3G connection across a wide range of connected devices including NOW TV Box, PC, Mac, selected Android smartphones, iOS devices, PS3, YouView and Xbox (the Sky Movies live channels and Sky Sports Day Pass are not available on YouView and an Xbox 360 LIVE Gold subscription is required is required to watch NOW TV on Xbox 360). Each device will benefits from an optimised design to deliver quality streaming with buffering minimized by the use of adaptive bitrate technology.
The NOW TV Box offers customers a quick and easy way to convert a regular TV into a Smart TV for a one-off box cost of £9.99. The box will also be welcoming a new addition to its range of apps before the end of the year with arrival of Channel 4's catch up service, 4oD. Currently customers can get unlimited access to movies on NOW TV with a 30 day free trial of the Sky Movies Pass, then priced at £8.99 a month. NOW TV Customers can also get 24-hour access to all six Sky Sports channels live for £9.99 with the Sky Sports Day Pass.
NOW TV Entertainment Month Pass: Introductory price of £4.99 if joining by 31st March 2014. Not all content available on catch up or live channels. NOW TV delivers OTT channels over-the-top (OTT). Presently, YouView doesn't have the capability to support channels delivered by OTT, so the NOW TV entertainment channels will not be available over this device.
NOW TV Box: Connects to TV via HDMI (cable supplied). NOW TV account required to activate box. Customers can select a Sky Movies Pass, Sky Sports Day Pass or an Entertainment Month Pass to create an account and watch NOW TV. All Passes sold separately.
*Comparison of online movie subscription services using top UK box office films from the past 18 months.
