TV problems - DH's attitude

Yep, I agree that a second TV would be great, if you can swing it.

StatenIsland - we found the app alright but it wouldn't work, as we already had the small NOWTV box it was much easier just to plug it in and use that.

Round and round it goes. Trisha told us some pages ago that her model of TV is incompatible with the app. She has been told to just be a good girl and download it several times since then.

Evidently writing is easier than reading.

Smart TVs allow you add the Now Tv app and enables you to watch your subscription programmes that way. You do have to put you email and password in (the one you use for Now TV subscription), using the tv remote control, but it guides you through it when the app is loaded. A bit time consuming, but, it’s very easy and you only do it the once. I used to have a Now TV box, which is now redundant. All my TV subscriptions are on apps on the TV. Netflix, Apple TV, Disney, IPlayer and other catch-up programmes. Check out YouTube for instructions if you find it difficult.

Hello Everyone.
Haven't RTFT yet, but just to let Staten and others know that you cannot 'close' a thread.
Hope that you have had a satisfying result Trisha

Hi Trisha. I share your tastes. The Repair Shop has been my favourite series during lockdown (along with Grayson's Art Club). I may well have spent as many hours watching past series on demand as your man has spent watching footie. Will is so beautiful in every respect. I'd like the entire to team to come around and fix my stuff. I'm sure I can find a broken watch, bent-out-of shape silver, cracked porcelain and a worn ukelele. I'd struggle on paintings of any note and pinball machines but definitely have rusty gates that Dom could sandblast. See you on the Tech side.

StatenIsland, your description of the pundits really made me laugh! We both love The Repair Shop, my favourite is Will. Oh, and the teddy bear ladies! I also watch Sewing Bee, Great British Menu, Gardeners World and anything about forensics and true crime. Yes, I fear DH was being cast in the role of villain as the posts came thick and fast. I really didn't expect 7 pages! Thanks again for your help. I'll keep you updated.

Trisha, I'm newish her and don't know the protocol for closing a thread. Note to mods presumably.

It's been an interesting thread though. I hadn't realised Smart TV was such a minefield of tech problems. A browse through the NOW community pages is quite illuminating. If you encounter any problems when you have received your stick that's probably the place to go to look for answers.

Yes, the tech section here is probably the best place for any follow on. I was starting to feel quite sorry for your man. My dear late husband was a sports fanatic, especially football so I know what it's like when Jeff Stelling and his fellow pundits are analysing everything to death - from the pre-match boot-lacing to the post match show gel. Let's go over to Chris Kamara. Brut or Lynx, Chris? And do I really care whether Dimitri Boglidup should have run into that space there - instead of that space there. Whoever allowed pundits anywhere near an interactive white board should be skewered on a corner flag imo.

But then, I spent Wednesday evening watching an old Midsomer Murders, Joe Lycett mincing and romping around on Sewing Bee and the lovely Steve from The Repair Shop firing a toy cannon at a biscuit tin. Who am I to criticise what other people watch?

NotSpaghetti, please don't get all discombobulated!

That suits me StatenIsland! Although it is comforting to read of others that have had similar issues and great to have been informed of a solution, it does get a bit wearing to have to keep repeating myself ! I'll try to remember to put my update in the Technology section............

Aye to that * StatenIsland*

I think it's time for this thread to be locked (if that's possible here) and any postscript to Trisha's story be started by her in the Technology section. What say?

NotSpaghetti

TBsNana

Smart TV's are a flipping Nightmare aren't they!

I think though you could watch NOW! from your Smart TV - you just need to download the app to enable it and then sign in to the NOW account - so you get the nice picture and DH gets Football (groan!)

Nooo!
Arghhhhhhh!

I feel your pain.

TBsNana

Smart TV's are a flipping Nightmare aren't they!

I think though you could watch NOW! from your Smart TV - you just need to download the app to enable it and then sign in to the NOW account - so you get the nice picture and DH gets Football (groan!)

Nooo!
Arghhhhhhh!

Smart TV's are a flipping Nightmare aren't they!

I think though you could watch NOW! from your Smart TV - you just need to download the app to enable it and then sign in to the NOW account - so you get the nice picture and DH gets Football (groan!)

MerylStreep

Joesoap

Get someone who knows what he is doing to install whatever you need.If you are paying for half of everything surely you must be able to have a say in the matter.Stop paying the subscription and get a tv of your own. Dont let him bully you any more

Did you read the bloody answers that Trisha has given or are you just being disrespectful to her by ignoring her posts ????

MerylStreep I am deeply concerned for your health and welfare, principally your blood-pressure, but also I am sure that grinding noise I can hear here in France must be your teeth!

I absolutely sympathise about threads where reading and understanding are not recognised as essential pre-requisites by all contributors.

But it does make for entertaining reading, thankyou. Keep up the good work!

Trisha57, I've always had my own sitting room - and my own TV - essential, I believe, whoever else is at home!

My mother-in-law has a "smart" TV she's had for a few years.
She can't get All4 on hers.

I couldn't believe this but it turns out that for this particular model of TV made over a particular year (2016?) the facility doesn't exist. I think actually it may have vanished on an update but it's a pity as All4 often has things I think she would like.

From memory, I believe her TV is a Panasonic.

...I know this is a bit off-piste but it just goes to show that some smart TV models are not as smart as others.

I have a bt view recorder and freeview so l don't pay any monthly payments.

My parents' new Panasonic tv does not support the Now TV app. I used a Now V box for them on the old television but they are now obsolete and the preferred entry is through the app. I tried last week to activate Now TV so that my dad could watch the sport channels and discovered that it just plain won't work. If he wants to watch the sport then he's going to have to get Sky Sports which I think will be a bit confusing for a 92 year old!

Saetana, I have a Samsung purchased in Dec last year. The NOW app is in the Apps folder - the one with the four circles near the Home and Search icons. Currently advertising Bryan Cranston in Your Honour on Sky Atlantic. Doesn't matter if you have sorted it another way but information which may help others negotiating the learning curve that is Smart TV.

Yes you should certainly be able to plug in either a NOWTV stick or the tiny box (which is what we have) into your TV and use it like that. We have a Samsung TV and also had issues trying to find an app for NOWTV - so we just plugged in our old box and it works fine. Its been a learning curve for us as well as this is our first smart tv (bought 6 months ago).

Joesoap
And also read Trisha's post 17:29:56

Joesoap
READ TRISHAS POST 17.34.

Joesoap

Get someone who knows what he is doing to install whatever you need.If you are paying for half of everything surely you must be able to have a say in the matter.Stop paying the subscription and get a tv of your own. Dont let him bully you any more

Did you read the bloody answers that Trisha has given or are you just being disrespectful to her by ignoring her posts ????