NOW TV announce new Roku-powered ‘NOW TV Smart Stick’
Streaming service NOW TV have announced today that they are launching a brand-new streaming stick – the NOW TV Smart Stick – as well as a host of product updates including, for first time, receiving NOW TV’s broadband as a standalone service.
On sale from next month for just £14.99, the portable plug-and-play NOW TV Smart Stick is powered by Roku and comes with a remote featuring Voice Search technology that helps you to quickly find your favourite shows, films, actors or directors – getting you to the TV you love, fast. Plus if you don’t want to miss the live action, the stick lets you pause live TV on all NOW TV’s premium channels including Sky Sports, FOX, Comedy Central and Sky Atlantic.
For just £19.99 you can bundle the NOW TV Smart Stick with a two-month NOW TV Entertainment Pass for access to 11 of the best pay TV channels and over 300 binge-worthy Box Sets. Alternatively you can get the NOW TV Smart Stick with a one-month Sky Cinema Pass for £19.99, or a one-month Sky Sports Pass for £29.99. Commenting on the announcements, Gidon Katz, Managing Director, NOW TV, said:
If you’re looking for a flexible way to stream great TV, contract free, our plug-and-play NOW TV Smart Stick is the cheapest in the UK. Just add one of our content passes to stream premium live sports, binge over 300 Box Sets, watch a new movie premiere every day, or keep the family entertained with thousands of kids episodes.
If you like to get your TV fix on the go, NOW TV also today also announced they will be rolling out downloads to the NOW TV app across mobile devices for its kids, entertainment and cinema passes, starting with the Kids Pass this spring. By the end of the year NOW TV also revealed that it will be introducing the option of streaming NOW TV both live and on demand in full HD, with content from the likes of Sky Atlantic, Sky One and Sky Sports.
As part of its no-strings offering, NOW TV also revealed that new broadband customers will soon be able to get its great value reliable broadband as a standalone contract-free service, without the need to bundle it with a NOW TV Pass. NOW Broadband will launch in the next few weeks with prices starting from £18 (excludes one off set up fee of £15 and a postage handling fee of £9.99) and you can choose from three speeds: Broadband at 17 Mbps; Fibre with speeds up to 38 Mbps; and Super Fibre with speeds up to 76 Mbps.
For more information or to purchase your NOW TV Pass visit http://www.nowtv.com/smart-tv-stick
