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I’m a bit confused as to how that would even have worked. Now I can understand why a Sky basic package subscriber might choose to go down the route of a separate Now TV sub for sports or movies (often much cheaper than on Sky) but presumably, that wasn’t really what was being talked about here. If presumably the passes made available on a bundled basis would have been the same channels that the person had in their Sky sub, the only benefit would have been that Sky still (in this day and age) locks down the Sky Go app so as you can’t cast / Airplay whereas those features are available with Now (one of the areas where Now trumps Sky - very useful for when you are travelling).

Now TV and Sky use the same Sky ID system so if done could have given an entitlement equivalent to the package you were already subscribed (e.g. signature=entertainment, cinema=movies, sports=sports) to but this would have been a disjointed experience as the shows would not share a watchlist and it would not be seamless on what was watched or not.

Sky Go is showing its age these days however and hopefully the EETV launch will shake up how Sky does multiroom.