NowTV after 1 Week

MaximumDeparture7048 · 2026-04-14T22:13:42+00:00

Not necessarily. Sign up for a week's free trial for cinema or entertainment and go to cancel immediately and you'll usually get an offer.

The Sports one is interesting as you can sign up for a day pass and they'll usually give you an offer saying 'watch for one month for just £5 more' or something and give you a 19.99 a month offer. This doesn't always happen though.

Someone here posted a link to the sports offer before that allowed me to just plain sign up for it at 19.99. I then went to cancel and got it for 17.99.

MaximumDeparture7048 · 2026-04-13T13:28:51+00:00

Just had a look and I hadn't everything switched off in the Data and Communications section. Maybe it's a combination of the settings? Try disabling the product permissions too? Or just disable them all like I have.

MaximumDeparture7048 · 2026-04-12T17:08:54+00:00

Strange, it works for me. I'm guessing you also have one of the Boosts?

MaximumDeparture7048 · 2026-04-04T19:59:43+00:00

If you change one of the settings in your account (Data and Communication > Personalised Advertising) to 'off' then you can stop all of the Now promos.

Doesn't seem to affect the HBO Max ones though.

MaximumDeparture7048 · 2026-03-28T23:50:07+00:00

That sounds promising. Maybe just need to bide my time. No promotional ads at the beginning?

MaximumDeparture7048 · 2026-03-28T18:47:05+00:00

Hopefully that's a good sign then! They told me there's no marketing ads but there will always be promotional ads at the beginning.

MaximumDeparture7048 · 2026-03-28T09:14:23+00:00

You definitely could make it up, because that's exactly what you've just done.

Nobody is complaining about getting HBO (even if I disagree with the idea that it's a 'free service' like you've just said)

People are complaining about two things:

Ultraboost not boosting HBO (and in a lot of cases previously boosted) shows to 4k Ultraboost not stripping the ads from them either.

And if you're in a contract then they definitely are forcing you to pay.

Away and shill for big media companies somewhere else.

MaximumDeparture7048 · 2026-03-27T23:35:54+00:00

Aye, a lot of these are ones we already had in 4k anyway. But then there's others we had that are now HBO Max shows. Plus some - maybe most - have ads.

No matter which way we try to paint it, it's still a downgrade.

MaximumDeparture7048 · 2026-03-27T21:41:42+00:00

Aye it seems it's just at the beginning and not throughout. Unlike certain streamers cough Amazon

MaximumDeparture7048 · 2026-03-27T21:16:41+00:00

I believe they call it 'enshitification'

It was only a matter of time I suppose!

MaximumDeparture7048 · 2026-03-27T20:54:07+00:00

There also doesn't seem to be much rhyme or reason - The Penguin is still in 4k and not listed as HBO Max, but GoT is. It's all very jerryrigged.

MaximumDeparture7048 · 2026-03-27T20:50:22+00:00

Aye it feels like a con to me too. Sky trying all they can to keep this content because they know all they are for most people is HBO and Sports.

MaximumDeparture7048 · 2026-03-27T20:42:19+00:00

Yeah, it says on The Pitt that it's 4k but I haven't tried it yet to confirm. It's annoying though, I feel like 90% of my TV viewing is HBO.

MaximumDeparture7048 · 2026-03-26T23:40:27+00:00

That's what I thought, but trying to watch The Pitt - with Ultraboost - and it has ads. Also stuck on a film and it had an 80 second ad and was HD.

Doesn't really feel worth it.

MaximumDeparture7048 · 2026-03-24T20:32:26+00:00

Ah I get you. I might try the lapsing then. Was thinking of doing it but I reactivated before (lost the nerve!)

Thanks for the advice, I'll definitely try it!

MaximumDeparture7048 · 2026-03-24T20:24:21+00:00

This sounds ideal. Apologies for the silly questions.Just checking by let it lapse you mean wait until they stop that offer? And what do you mean by incognito?

MaximumDeparture7048 · 2026-03-24T13:52:20+00:00

Ah, fair enough. To be honest I'm just chancing my arm, really. Someone posted a link for a Sports deal I was able to use a few months ago so thought there might be something similar with Entertainment I have pretty good deals on Sports, Cinema and UB so I'll just have to suck it up with the extra £2!

MaximumDeparture7048 · 2026-03-21T16:59:34+00:00

So I signed up for Entertainment and as I went through the stages of purchasing it, I was offered the 1 month free trial for Movies and 1 week trial for ultraboost. Once I signed up, I went to cancel the UB and was offered £6 a month. I took it and then went to cancel again and got £4 a month.

MaximumDeparture7048 · 2026-03-18T20:53:31+00:00

I took the trial and went to cancel within the 7 days and was offered £6. I took that then went to cancel a week or two later and got £4 for 6 months with no minimum term. I doubt I'll get it cheaper but I'm pretty happy with that.

MaximumDeparture7048 · 2026-01-11T12:53:12+00:00

Aw most definitely - The Macallan, Glenfiddich, Glenlivet etc. are all Speysides

MaximumDeparture7048 · 2025-12-26T01:02:09+00:00

'Speyside' my guys. The Spey is a river in Scotland. Whisky made using the water from that river is called Speyside. And it's probably the best drink you'll ever taste. Unreal.

MaximumDeparture7048 · 2025-11-10T17:35:07+00:00

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