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    Steep. I need to sort my life out. I'm paying for Amazon, Now & Netflix.

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    The 'only in two rooms' thing is awful, how do they justify shite like that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Manc View Post
    Steep. I need to sort my life out. I'm paying for Amazon, Now & Netflix.
    Yeah, I never go for them on a long-term basis. Usually I'll get a month for whatever new thing is making headlines (I guess the last two were The Last Dance and Chernobyl) and binge whatever else I fancy before the month is done.

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    My internet has gone from 300Mb/s to something between 1 and 5 depending on what way the wind is blowing so I’ve cancelled Now, Apple, and Disney. Netflix and Amazon remain. Half tempted to get Sky the proper way because I’m missing the sport channels.

    The TV seems to default to some Rakuten thing nowadays (maybe because I’ve no aerial plugged in at all) and the quality of the content fucking horrendous.

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    I've had a dodgy box for years for about £70 a year and it's absolutely spot on. It's annoying that it's behind live TV by about 20 seconds but worth it for the quality.

    Finished handsmaid last night. It's absolutely brutal but excellent. I think the 4th series is the weakest but let's see if they can close it out before they Walking Dead it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Disco View Post
    The 'only in two rooms' thing is awful, how do they justify shite like that?
    How do you mean?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kikó View Post
    I've had a dodgy box for years for about £70 a year and it's absolutely spot on. It's annoying that it's behind live TV by about 20 seconds but worth it for the quality.

    Finished handsmaid last night. It's absolutely brutal but excellent. I think the 4th series is the weakest but let's see if they can close it out before they Walking Dead it.
    I thought 4 was much better than 3, which had me considering giving it up.

    I've also got a dodgy box. For huge events it can sometimes shit the bed, but that's probably once or twice per year max.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    How do you mean?
    If you're paying that much why can't you watch it wherever you want on whatever you want? Or have I misunderstood what that meant.

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    It means you can watch 2 different channels at once, no?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Disco View Post
    If you're paying that much why can't you watch it wherever you want on whatever you want? Or have I misunderstood what that meant.
    Gotcha. You get a box to watch it through and the standard is one box, but I paid for two. There's also Sky Go or whatever it's called and I can watch that in as many rooms as I like, but with that you're back to an internet connected service again.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    It means you can watch 2 different channels at once, no?
    Yep, you can.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    The TV seems to default to some Rakuten thing nowadays (maybe because I’ve no aerial plugged in at all) and the quality of the content fucking horrendous.
    I have this situation for my television in the study. Some weird shit on those channels. Tempted to get Sky Q.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Manc View Post
    Steep. I need to sort my life out. I'm paying for Amazon, Now & Netflix.
    I was doing the same and was paying £33 a month through Now for the sports so didn't think the jump to this a month was that bad.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dquincy View Post
    I have this situation for my television in the study. Some weird shit on those channels. Tempted to get Sky Q.
    I was in exactly the same boat so that's why I did it. Sky Q in one room and another box (which is annoyingly internet driven) in another room.

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    Hmmm. Im tempted. Now to convince the wife. She wants a reverse osmosis water filter much to my dismay, so can use it as a trade off perhaps.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dquincy View Post
    I have this situation for my television in the study. Some weird shit on those channels. Tempted to get Sky Q.
    It’s woeful. Everything on it looks like it was made for about €100.

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    My TV does that Rakuten shite too. I hate it. I wish I could uninstall it somehow.

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    +1

    They must be paying the TV companies to make them the default or something. I thought it was just us.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boydy View Post
    My TV does that Rakuten shite too. I hate it. I wish I could uninstall it somehow.
    Same.

    Samsung?
    I'm a twit

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    Bugger, I've just ordered a Sumsung. Thank fuck I've now got Sky to plug into it.

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    I have satellite TV and it still does it.

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    Yeah I’ve Virgin and it does it. Samsung TV Plus though, not Rakuten, but sounds like the same thing.

    Hopefully my new LG defaults to the Virgin box.
    I'm a twit

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    Yeah I think mine is branded as Samsung TV Plus too, but Rakuten TV is in the corner of the screen all the time. There’s a Rakuten button on the remote too and it’s one of the only apps you can’t uninstall.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Baz View Post
    Same.

    Samsung?
    Yep, it's that Samsung TV Plus crap Giggles is talking about.

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    Yep Samsung as well. Bastards.

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    Is it a new thing for all of you even with a TV service plugged in? I always had Virgin plugged into this and then didn’t use the TV for a couple of months. I thought this was only on it because I’d no service plugged into it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Baz View Post
    Yeah I’ve Virgin and it does it. Samsung TV Plus though, not Rakuten, but sounds like the same thing.

    Hopefully my new LG defaults to the Virgin box.
    LG were pulling some shit where they were testing random ads coming up on your tv via the internet a while back but seem to have fucked off for now. I turned the wifi tv connection off for a bit on the back of it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    Is it a new thing for all of you even with a TV service plugged in? I always had Virgin plugged into this and then didn’t use the TV for a couple of months. I thought this was only on it because I’d no service plugged into it.
    It was already set up on the TV when I bought it. And, like someone else said, even the remote has a Rakuten button.

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    This is worrying news about Samsung. The last product of theirs I bought was top notch.

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    Pissed about with Sky for half an hour. It's pretty sweet. Sooo much content and having live tv back again is great.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kikó View Post
    I've had a dodgy box for years for about £70 a year and it's absolutely spot on. It's annoying that it's behind live TV by about 20 seconds but worth it for the quality.

    Finished handsmaid last night. It's absolutely brutal but excellent. I think the 4th series is the weakest but let's see if they can close it out before they Walking Dead it.
    Quote Originally Posted by SvN View Post
    I thought 4 was much better than 3, which had me considering giving it up.

    I've also got a dodgy box. For huge events it can sometimes shit the bed, but that's probably once or twice per year max.
    How would one procure such a 'dodgy box'?

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    What are they? Is it hacked sky or an android streaming box thing?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    This is worrying news about Samsung. The last product of theirs I bought was top notch.
    The TV itself is very good imo. And I'm sure if Sky was hooked up to it, you'd be able to default onto Sky every time you turn it on.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spammer View Post
    How would one procure such a 'dodgy box'?
    Send PM.
    @Boydy - android boxes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dquincy View Post
    The TV itself is very good imo. And I'm sure if Sky was hooked up to it, you'd be able to default onto Sky every time you turn it on.
    Cheers. Panic over.

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    I've just tried Rakuten on my current Panasonic and, well, what the fuck? Who is behind this?

    It wants me to sign up, so how does that situation ever become the default and did you all sign up to get into it?

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    I've never signed up, it just comes up on the screen and starts showing me trailers for a load of shite.

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    I have blocked the Rakuten servers on my DNS server by directing them to 0.0.0.0 but what do you know?, Rakuten keep changing the domains that they use for this nuisance .
    Unreal.

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    Maybe get an LG or something Yev

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    Already on its way.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SvN View Post
    I found a way to completely disable the TV plus on the TV all together. Has been going for a few weeks now and not came back. I'm in the UK running a ue55nu7100
    Turn the TV off first.. On the remote press info then settings then mute then power, when the TV loads back up you should have a blue over lay menu at the left hand side.

    Go to option, then "MRT Option" then in the list you will see "TV plus support" turn it off and reboot . Enjoy

    Please don't mess about with any other settings in here I have no clue what they do. Hope it helps.
    Seems to have sorted it. Cheers.
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    Second tv arrived and all set up with Sky. Only irritation so far is it keeps asking me to agree to T&C's, which I can't do without an internet connection to the tv and I don't need or want one of those as I have Sky. Also fearful an internet connection may be a gateway to all that Rakuten shite, which is nowhere to be seen at the moment, thankfully.

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    Decided to watch Chernobyl again as Sky has it in UHD. Whatever the resolution though, it really is a masterpiece.

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    The last episode might be the finest piece of television I've ever seen.

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    I see there's Chernobyl 1986 on Netflix as well - no idea if it's any good but might be worth checking out.

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    Cheers mo. I clocked that the other day so I think I'll give it a whirl when I'm done with this one.

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    Isn't that the duff propaganda one that the Russians made in response to the series?

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    If it is I'm definitely in.

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