Foxtel brings back Foxtel Go app
Foxtel has relaunched its mobile streaming app for subscribers, Foxtel Go.
The application, which was renamed as The Foxtel app last year, has returned to its original name, Foxtel Go, and now has HD streaming and support for Chromecast and AirPlay.
The Foxtel App has been renamed Foxtel Go
The Onion or Betoota Advocate couldn’t make this shit up as well as Foxtel does themselves. Feels like the decision making dartboard in the boardroom is getting a workout.
How does this differentiate from Foxtel Now?
Foxtel Go is included with a traditional satellite Foxtel package, whereas Foxtel Now is an online streaming service you can sign up for without a set top box / satellite.
Slightly incorrect. I have Foxtel Go and I don’t have a set top box or satellite. It’s essentially the same thing just renamed and repackaged. It will be interesting to see where they go with pricing. I only subscribe for the footy and I’m about to cancel that as it’s the end of the season.
How did you manage that? I thought Foxtel Go was bundled with Satellite or set top box subscription only and if you didn’t want to sign up to them, you had to get a Foxtel Now subscription?
Except that is has been well documented that Chromecast is only available to subscribers with multi room (ie. 2 or more set top boxes on their account already).
Hopefully it’s a bug they’ll correct, but that’s the current requirement.
Not a bug unfortunately, Foxtel are struggling to compete with themselves.
If they give all subscribers access to Chromecast, they need to write off $15-$25 for thousands of multiroom subscribers who will ditch the second box.
If they make Foxtel Now Full HD, they need to ditch the $10 per month fee on satellite.
Doesn’t work on chromecast
With this app can I rewind live tv or fast foward and record programmes. I am in an area where there is no fitting for a box, and must rely on an on line connection, therefore I can see a drastic change in my lifestyle, with this set up changing the service I have been glad to receive from foxtel over many years.
Can you advise please.
Regards Ray.
If you can’t get a Foxtel box / satellite dish, you will need to sign up for Foxtel Now. You cannot record, though most shows would be available on demand. You can rewind up to 30 minutes on any channel, even if you haven’t been watching it, and you can fast forward within this 30 minute buffer though that’s it.
Guessing there is still no AppleTV version despite Apple releasing a 4K model and them having most of the code already from their iOS apps. Instead your left to stream from a mobile device as a dirty hack #foxtelfails.
Most people have lost hope for an Apple TV app – on the Foxtel Community forums they are backtracking and saying that they delivered Foxtel Now on the Apple TV by adding Airplay support.
The geniuses at Foxtel have also only offered Chromecast as a bonus to multi-room subscribers. Makes total sense to offer them this “bonus” considering they have no use for it when it’s much easier to watch what ever they want through the additional IQ3 attached to the extra TV.
Foxtel’s streaming offerings continue to become even more frequent and half arsed.
Foxtel, Foxtel Flicks, Foxtel Now and Foxtel Go.
I am so confused. I just want to watch Wentworth.
Hi ,I have Platinum HD with a 1 x Q3 box! Can I chrome cast with this new app now or is it still the same. Customer who pays the most cant do it and someone paying quarter the amount can chrome cast!!
Regards Glenn
Not unless you get a second box.
Newsflash…Foxtel launch Laserdisc by mail subscription service.
Someone on the management team heard about this Netflix thing
Oh thank heavens – they’re finally moving into the 20th century. Such a relief.
Foxtel TV, Foxtel Broadband, Foxtel Now, Foxtel Go, FoxtelKids, MyFoxtel app, FoxFlicks, Foxtel iQ4, Foxtel from Telstra OnDemand, the list goes on. Someone over there needs to do some serious brand consolidation.
One major reason Netflix works so well, and has become entirely ubiquitous is because it is just “Netflix”. Use whatever device you want. Pay for the lot in one transaction, one website, one mobile app, one tv app, zero headaches.
Your a absolute tool Stupert if you understand it there just different options at least Foxtel are trying different things there just different options to choose from but it is cheaper if you get the sport package then get Netflix for the movies tv shows and docos
Flog, when I’m comparing Foxtel (and it’s many variations) with Netflix, I’m not talking about price, or even comparing the product offering. I’m talking about the brand, and customer interpretation of that brand.
Foxtel “trying different things” as you put it, to me is a display of floundering, out of control, “seeing what sticks” business decisions. Confusing their customers, using them as guinea pigs, and charging them a premium for their sub par offerings in the meantime.
In comparison, many other companies in the same market (including Netflix) offer consolidated, uncomplicated products that are easy for customers to understand and enjoy. So easy my grandmother subscribed to Netflix from her iPad last month, and is now two seasons deep into Narcos.
Now if she decided she wanted Foxtel, which of the multitude of Foxtel sub brands does she type into Google? Where does she even start? And after she’s signed up for something and handed over her pension to Rupert, what are the odds that she’ll access to the right content for her?