Pick your perfect PS3 app. Experience the new way for everyone to enjoy Foxtel. PC/Mac & Mobile Other systems Help. Try uninstalling Foxtel Go, then install Silverlight. After the installation is completely (should only be able 40-50 seconds at most) then install Foxtel Go again. Foxtel Now is an Australian internet television service which offers subscriptions to over 50 live channels and hundreds of video on-demand titles. The service is owned by Foxtel, and officially launched on 11 August 2013 as Foxtel Play. The service is available on internet connected devices such as computers, game consoles and selected smart TV's and Blu-ray players.

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Foxtel has announced its highly acclaimed Foxtel Go app is now available across a host of new devices including select Samsung Android tablets and smartphones as well as PC and Mac computers. The new apps, which were developed by Switch Media in conjunction with Foxtel’s creative team, are a continuation of the technology partnership between the two companies. Switch Media also produced the original app services for iPhones and iPads allowing Foxtel subscribers to take their subscription services with them.

The new services, which have been eagerly anticipated dramatically increase the number of ways Foxtel subscribers can take their entertainment with them. Customers simply download the Foxtel Go app from the Foxtel website or Samsung App Store, enter their Foxtel login and start enjoying great mobile entertainment. In addition Foxtel has increased the number of devices that can be registered to Foxtel Go from two to three.

Jim Rudder, Foxtel Executive Director of Product said, “We’re really pleased with the response we’ve had since Foxtel Go launched late last year. Through our innovation, Foxtel continues to add value for our subscribers and the increase in the number and type of devices consumers can use to access it goes a long way towards delivering on our promise to help even more customers enjoy Foxtel in the home or on the move.”

Christopher Stenhouse, CEO of Switch Media, added: “By taking these initiatives, Foxtel is reinforcing its leadership position in the industry — providing innovative services that meet customers’ needs. With these new services, Foxtel is enabling its customers to access its content, whenever and wherever required, via a simple to use added value service. Given our long-standing relationship with Foxtel, we are delighted to have played our part in developing the new apps.”

Mac app take photos when motion is detected. Utilising IP head-end services also provided by Switch Media, Foxtel Go is delivering up to 59 live channels and over 50 channels for on demand catch up viewing to Foxtel Pay TV subscribers.

About Switch Media

Switch Media are the multi-screen video specialists. As well as their cloud based video content management system, the Switch Media Manager, Switch Media’s products and services include online video portals, mobile apps, Digital Rights Management (DRM), real-time analytics, content monetisation, hosting and global distribution.

About Foxtel

Foxtel is one of Australia’s most progressive and dynamic media companies, directly employing around 2,500 people, and delivering a diverse subscription television service to both regional and metropolitan areas over cable, satellite and broadband distribution. We offer a better entertainment experience every day to each one of our 2.3 million subscribing homes through delivery of exclusive and inspiring programming across all genres, the world’s most popular channel brands, and investment in high quality local content. As constant champions of innovation we have brought customers the iQ personal digital recorder, Australia’s largest HD offering and the Foxtel Go App. Foxtel is owned by Telstra Corporation Limited ACN 051 775 556 (50%) and The News Corporation Ltd (50%). foxtel.com.au

Foxtel Play is a new, streamlined IPTV service from Australia’s largest cable TV company, with a no-contract subscription, reduced prices and updated packages. It’s meant to get Foxtel in the hands of anyone who doesn’t want a complicated, locked-in cable subscription — and it does an excellent job.

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Foxtel Play: Setup, cost and features

Foxtel Play is a hugely different service to the old-fashioned Foxtel cable TV subscription. There’s no setup or installation fee, for one. All you need to do is sign up for an account on the Foxtel Play website, enter your credit card details and choose the package you want. You pay on an ongoing monthly basis, but you can change your subscription at any time for the next month’s billing cycle. You can cancel without penalty. These are all Good Things.

Foxtel Play has a minimum cost of $25 per month — that’ll get you one of the four Genre packages, which are Entertainment, Documentaries, Drama, or Kids. Add another genre package for $10, another on top of that for another $10, and a fourth for $5 — for a total monthly cost of $35, $45, or $50. On top of that, you can throw in one or both of the Premium Picks, which are Movies & Premium Drama or Sports for $25 each (and can't be selected without at least one Genre pick).

We think that the simpler subscriptions — say, Entertainment plus Sports, or Documentaries plus Entertainment plus Movies & Premium Drama — make great sense, and are reasonably good value. If you know what you want to watch, and you devote enough time to watching it to make a monthly payment worthwhile, then Foxtel Play is good value.

As you may have guessed, Play is complemented by Foxtel’s existing Foxtel Go service, which is basically Play for mobile devices — the current supported fleet extends to iPhones, iPods touch and iPads, as well as a select range of Samsung Android phones and Tabs. We’re keen to see this grow — namely to the Galaxy S4, which is sorely waiting for Go access — but as time goes on we expect to see Go become ubiquitous on both Android and iOS.’ Native mac apps don.

There’s no point paying money if you’re not going to use it, though. If you aren’t making full use of Foxtel Play’s two-user simultaneous streaming, and streaming to mobiles over Foxtel Go, we think that the maximum price of $100 per month begins to look expensive very quickly.

Similarly, we do wish that it was possible to subscribe to individual channels within the Genre packages, at a lower price, to cherry-pick your favourites, and similarly to purchase access to individual events within the Premium Picks range — the odd movie or two, or Foxtel-owned sporting event broadcast. This isn’t something that Foxtel has planned for the near future, but we’re hopeful it’s not entirely too far off the horizon.

Foxtel Play: Using the app

To use Foxtel Play, all you’ve got to do is sign up for the package that you want, and then install the Foxtel Play app on your PC or Mac, Samsung Smart TV, or Xbox 360 console. The new Play app supersedes the Foxtel on Internet TV and Foxtel on Xbox services, although these subscribers will have grandfathered access to Play with only minor changes.

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The Play app for both PC and Mac is exceedingly simple — after logging in once, your account details are saved, as are your preferences like a parental control PIN. There’s a range of settings you can change, but none of it is necessary if all you want to do is watch the TV you’re paying for.

The main screen, curated by Foxtel, shows the most popular, newest and most wanted content that Foxtel Play has to offer. It’s not tailored to each subscription, though, which means you might select a program only to be prompted that you don’t have access — we don’t have a problem with this, because if you want to watch whatever you’ve chosen it’s utterly easy to pay for it.

There are two panels that display all the video that you’ll get out of Foxtel Play — the Live TV screen, and Catch-Up. Live TV shows you all the channels available on Play, with the ones you don’t have access to greyed out. This is what you’ll be using for most of your Play viewing, purely because of Foxtel’s massive variety of content. The window defaults to a half-screen guide, with an inset video stream of whatever channel you have selected. If you want to view a more extensive now-next-later guide, you can do so, although the inset video gets smaller, or you can choose the fullscreen option (which isn’t completely fullscreen, but it’s close).

Catch-Up is another curated screen in the same vein as the app’s home screen, with featured content displayed prominently. There are a number of filters that can be applied — restricting your selection to TV shows, movies, or to search alphabetically or by the channels you subscribe to. You can then sort that by the newest or the most popular videos, as determined by the Play database’s analytics.

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Watching video streams and video-on-demand on Foxtel Play is a painless process. Select a new channel in Live TV and it buffers for a second or two, but didn’t stutter on our decidedly average ADSL2+ connection, or while streaming over Telstra’s 4G network. On both we were able to watch the ‘Best’ video quality stream, with video ramping up to near-DVD quality — looking no worse than free-to-air digital TV, although not quite as clean as Foxtel’s cable HD channels.

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If you value your data caps, you can choose ‘Low’ in the app’s settings, to watch the most basic and bandwidth-friendly stream. The quality of the stream varies depending on what device you’re watching on, too, with mobile devices on Go maxing out at a lower bit-rate than a PC or Mac on Play.

You can use a single Foxtel Play subscription on two devices simultaneously, and have the app registered to three devices at once — so you could share the subscription with your husband, wife, girlfriend, boyfriend, or a family member. Similarly, each accompanying Foxtel Go subscription can be registered on three devices and used on two simultaneously — if you’re a young couple, both with PCs (or Macs) and iPhones, one Foxtel Play subscription will have you both covered.

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Foxtel Play: Conclusion

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We really like the concept of Foxtel Play. It goes a long way towards making the shows that we like more accessible, taking away the requirement for a cable subscription and a long contract, and taking away one of the main reasons for illegally downloading TV or movies — accessibility of a legal alternative.

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If you want the full Foxtel Play experience, it’s expensive. We could maybe justify it if we split the cost with a partner or family member, and used Play plus Go to their full extent. For a couple of packages — say, a daily dose of Nat Geo documentaries and the odd blockbuster — it’s hard to find a flaw with Foxtel Play.