No matter how you celebrate the holidays – toasting to world peace, trimming the tree while humming along to Katy Perry’s White Christmas or simply lighting the menorah – it all comes down to one thing: having fun. OK, two things: having fun and spending time with loved ones. (OK, three things: having fun, spending time with loved ones and keeping everyone entertained.) Whether your house is filled with relatives and friends, or it’s just you and the kids, nothing brings everyone together quite like the couch-snuggling, shared experience of TV. But not just any TV – the digital brilliance, massive selection and flexibility particular to NextBox™ 3.0. Unique to Rogers, NextBox 3.0 offers everything from recording to browsing to the freedom to watch what you want, where you want, when you want.
Here’s a breakdown of what makes NextBox 3.0 so special, and why it deserves a spot in your home in time for the holiday season.
NextBox Features
First of all, what is NextBox 3.0, exactly? NextBox 3.0 delivers a superior TV experience, covering many aspects of awesome TV. Besides providing you access to oodles of live TV and on-demand movies and TV shows (see “Content King,” right), NextBox features what’s called Whole Home PVR. This lets you share your recordings across multiple TVs in your house. All you need is a main Nextbox 3.0 PVR, plus Nextbox HD terminals for each additional TV. With this set-up, you’ll be able to watch, browse, record, pause and play shows from up to eight TVs throughout your house.
Let’s imagine you’re enjoying your favourite show or a football game you recored earlier, when down come a gaggle of nieces and nephews wanting to watch something else. Rather than being the crabby uncle (aka: the family Scrooge) who tells them to go away, you could simply hit pause, get up and continue watching in another room.
But Nextbox 3.0 isn’t just about watching what you want, where you want. It’s also about recording. See something you want to watch later on? NextBox lets you record up to eight HD programs at once. It may seem like overkill, but with so much great stuff on TV, and with your entire family keen to enjoy it all, you need all the flexibility you can find. The icing on the fruitcake: you can store more than 120 hours* of HD TV shows and movies – even entire seasons of your favourite series – so you don’t need to worry about constantly erasing to make room for new recordings.
Content King
Let’s be clear, the only way a digital-TV package is truly going to please everyone is if there’s loads of content to peruse and enjoy. Loaded with twice the amount of On Demand content than Fibe,™** NextBox offers something for everyone – and then some! From live TV to Rogers Anyplace TV, Rogers On Demand and Rogers Pay-Per-View, you’ll never again say, “There’s nothing on.”
NextBox gives you access to the best programming, from live sports to specialty channels such as HBO Canada, FX Canada and AMC. Then there’s Rogers On Demand (Channel 100). With more than 25,000 options at your fingertips and movies and shows added regularly, there’s literally something for everyone: new-release movies (including some available to watch the day they’re released in theatres) and classic films, hot TV series such as Modern Family and Glee (watch single episodes, or catch an entire season at your convenience), multicultural programs, music, karaoke and much more.
Have a house full of kids and their visiting cousins? You’ll appreciate the recently revamped on-demand Rogers Kids Zone (Channel 200) included with your cable subscription. Stocked with kid- and parent-approved programming from Family Channel, Disney Jr, Disney XD, Treehouse, YTV, Teletoon and more, there’s always lots to watch. What’s more, Rogers offers the best selection of recent episodes of popular TV shows that kids love most, including Stickin’ Around and The Fairly OddParents. Discover your kids’ favourite TV shows on Channel 200 or online at RogersAnyplaceTV.com/kidszone. No matter how old your children are, they’ll find something they love to watch.
Also new to NextBox is the improved Interactive Program Guide, which lets you quickly find what programming you’re looking for. Search by title, actor, genre, TV series and more. Not sure what you want to watch? No problem. The handy NextBox 3.0 Reco App (currently Ontario only) will make programming suggestions for you based on shows and movies you’ve already watched and enjoyed.
Oh, and while you’re browsing, be sure to check out the special Holiday Cheer folder on Rogers On Demand (Channel 100). Stocked with perennial holiday classics – including Elf, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Scrooged and The Polar Express – the Holiday Cheer folder has everything you need to ramp up the holiday fun. After all, nobody ever gets tired of these movies, especially National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.
Rogers Anyplace TV
Perhaps the most unique aspect of NextBox 3.0 is the fact that you can enjoy much of your favourite programming not only on your TV, but remotely: on your smartphone, tablet, PC and laptop with Rogers Anyplace TV.
Rogers Anyplace TV is a multi-faceted service unique to Rogers that lets you watch movies, TV shows and more. Watch episodes of The Walking Dead or How I Met Your Mother, plus even more if you’re subscribed to channels such as HBO Canada and AMC. As well, there’s an easy-to-access Rogers Kids Zone page at RogersAnyplaceTV.com/KidsZone, putting
kid-appropriate content at your fingertips.
With the Rogers Anyplace TV Home Edition App,*** you can also stream TV (45 channels, in fact), turn your tablet into a remote control, and even remotely program your PVR – so you can manage your recordings from wherever you are. And, with the Rogers Anyplace TV mobile app, you can enjoy live TV and action-packed sports on the go – right on your smartphone.
So, whether it’s your kids watching on their mobile devices during a road trip to Grandma’s, or it’s you following the action of a hockey game on CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada™**** while at your spouse’s office party, Rogers Anyplace TV is your partner in entertainment.
Enter For a Chance To Win a NextBox™ HD PVR Worth Over $500!
Contest closes on November 30, 2013. NOW EXTENDED TO DECEMBER 16, 2013! Open to residents of New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador and Ontario over the age of majority. To enter, watch a Connected Rogers NextBox™ 3.0 video and then fully complete the entry form. One entry per person per day. Odds of winning depend on number of eligible entries received. Mathematical skill-testing question must be correctly answered to win. No purchase necessary. Full rules here.
* More than 120 hours of HD content is the number of hours based on manufacturer’s specifications. Actual number of hours will vary based on content being recorded.
** ™Rogers & Mobius Design, Rogers Anyplace TV and NextBox are trademarks of or used under license from Rogers Communications Inc. or an affiliate. ™Fibe is a trademark of Bell Canada.
*** Rogers Anyplace TV Home Edition only available in Ontario. For full details see rogers.com/nextbox.
**** ™Hockey Night in Canada is a trademark of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Other brand names, logos and copyright are owned by their respective owners. © 2013