I had same issue this morning I tried to activate mine just before 9am and since their were issues with activation I had to be passed onto a department which was closed. Did not give me much confidence but she had to send them a email. I checked until 10am still was not up but was up around lunch time when I returned home
got mine activated - somewhat. i can watch tv but i can’t record it
Another botched rollout? Not surprising from Foxtel
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i called up about the recording issue. turns out my box is stuffed out of the box… a new one is coming
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An announcement regarding Foxtel’s new entertainment streaming video on demand service is imminent. Foxtel branding will be dropped in an effort to differentiate the product from the linear subscription television service and the new SVOD offering will more closely resemble the likes of Netflix, Amazon Prime and Stan. Foxtel Now is dead, long live Fox Flicks.
Bringing back Presto? 
At least for 12 months before Foxtel decides to rebrand the service yet again…
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Are foxtel going to transfer the foxtel now subscribers to this new service?
I think Foxtel for years has had such a strong position in providing pay for content that IPTV really has them in a struggling position today.
I have a Foxtel satellite service and live in a area that can get 1gbps nbn and still enjoy content I can’t get on the other IPTV services.
The trouble is the price of that service is considerably higher and people can get enough entertainment from the far cheaper IPTV services.
Foxtel seems to be taking things in interesting directions, the 4k TV channel is interesting and rightly so the first high bandwidth 24/7 channel delivered by satellite. However IPTV has been doing this for awhile at probably lower bandwidths.
What annoys me about foxtel is we are using so much satellite bandwidth for 1 channel when there is so many SD channels broadcast still. HD should almost be the default now.
Interested to see where they go from here and this rumour of a new IPTV service.
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i do believe maybe in the future in the way of the internet is going esp the nbn that foxtel will eventually give way of the satellite and only be a iptv service with all of there current tv channels but that’s only my two cents
That’s exactly what should have and could have easily happened with the fibre to the premises plan. Offering much higher bandwidth which could grow well into the future as well as the ability to have multiple services to the one box (ie, you can have multiple internet plans across the one fibre) they could have really explored a few options there.
I reckon eventually maybe but the NBN rollout as it is now with poorer FTTN zones some of those services will be still considerably restricted to get the sort of bandwidth available. @ando9185 literally wrote the same thing as I was writing.
Not bad considering I’m on an FTTN service and you’re the lucky one with FTTP!
hahaha very true. FTTN in some areas can get some decent speeds i’ve seen that when you live on top of the Node box but i’ve also seen the other side of the spectrum in Tas where sadly ADSL2 was equal or better than the FTTN VDSL service. The original plan was the only forseeable plan for the future, old copper lines do not have that future.
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there’s information on it in September’s mag.
Though there is still a LOT of content that they air that was only ever filmed in SD, upscaling it to HD over the satellite would be pointless really.
Perhaps when the majority of content that they air is available in HD, that may change.
So what will happen to Foxtel Now. I have that with a foxtel puck device. Will I just be disconnected? Now isn’t bad as you can watch the live stream of channels and have access to all the on demand and catch up stuff.
I too have a Foxtel Now puck but I rarely use it. The picture quality through it is crap, the remote is sluggish, and you can’t properly rewind or fast forward. I’m thinking of taking it back to JB HiFi. I’ve gone back to using Foxtel Now on my mobile phone and Chromecast.