Watching NOW TV on Windows
There are 2 ways you can watch NOW TV on your Windows PC, laptop or tablet, depending on what browser you're using.
You'll need Silverlight installed to watch NOW TV.
- Already got Silverlight? Great – you’re ready to start watching straight away.
- Don't have it? You can install Silverlight here.
These browsers don’t support Silverlight, so you’ll need to watch with the NOW TV Player instead.
Just follow the steps below to download it.
Can I watch NOW TV on my Windows smartphone?
Unfortunately, it’s not possible to watch NOW TV on Windows smartphones. But don’t worry – there are loads of other devices you can watch on.
How to install the NOW TV Player
Step 1:
To trigger the Player download, you’ll need to choose something to watch. Head over to the NOW TV site, find a show, movie, sporting event or kids’ show, and hit play.
Help tip Don’t want to watch anything right now? Just pick something at random to start the download – it doesn’t matter what.
(Don’t have an account yet? You’ll just need to start a free trial or buy a Pass first.)You’ll then be prompted to download the Player.
The NOW TV Player will download to wherever you’ve set as your preferred download location (the default will be your Downloads folder).
Help tip If you accidentally clicked, 'I've already got this' but you don't already have the Player installed, you'll see an error and you'll then have trouble downloading the Player. To get around this, you can either open a different browser and use this to download the Player, or clear the cookies from your browsing history. (If you don’t want to clear all your cookies, then just find the nowtvPlayerInstalled cookie and delete it.)
Step 2:
Now find the file and click on it to launch the installer. You should see it open and begin downloading and installing the application automatically.
Tick the box to confirm you’ve installed the NOW TV Player, then click Start watching.
Step 3:
The first time you launch the NOW TV Player, you’ll see a message like this (it may look slightly different, depending on your browser):
Step 4:
Finally, just click Open to launch the NOW TV Player, and you're ready to watch.Next time you watch...
The next time you go to watch something on the NOW TV site, your computer should remember you’ve already installed the NOW TV Player and start playing straight away. If it doesn’t, and you see this screen again, just click I’ve already got this to continue.