So signed up for Lightbox last night and attempted to use the code for 3 months free from PLP but got a message that the code could not be found. So went onto their live chat and the guy didn't know so had to go and ask someone and it turns out it's expired. Said there was no mention from PLP of the code expiring, just that it was 3 months free and since I was overseas on holiday from mid August there was no point signing up until I got back. The guy said to forward the email from PLP onto their help email address and they would see what they could do so waiting for a reply now.
I did think it might expire so asked PLP when I got it but they never replied so I just figured I'd be able to use it now. If they had said it expired I'd have just signed up and still got 2 months free after my holiday. Hopefully they come back and say I can have the 3 months since they never said it expired and I'm only trying to use it the next month, not like it's a year later or anything. As for how it worked, it was a joy to be able to watch through a PS4 app instead of having to connect the laptop to the TV like with PLP, TVNZ, TV3, Sky Go. Watched a couple of shows and it worked perfectly aside from freezing to load for a few seconds a couple of times. No ads and worked much better than all those others, with no stuttering or jerkiness as I get with PLP. Just made me wish for access to a PLP app even more.
Good selection of shows from a first look - some recent/new I'm interested in and quite few older ones I have been wanting to watch but haven't yet. Pretty sure I'll keep it going once I have to pay and get rid of Sky. Next to try Neon (got 6 months free from Vodafone) and Netflix.