IPTV Subscription recommendation

IPTV Subscription recommendation

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Markytop

Original Poster:

633 posts

218 months

Friday 20th February 2015
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Can anyone recommend a IPTV subscription provider?

I have a MAG254 box and have tried a couple of free trial subscriptions, but getting HD channels in a stable package seems difficult. Not too fussed about loads of sport channels (but Sky F1 would be nice), again Movie channels could take or leave, but would like the extended Sky package (extra music channels, Discovery channels etc) rather than just the standard Freeview package.

There seems lots of providers (or maybe resellers of the same underlying package?) out there, all roughly the same price, so just looking at who has the best options and most stable feeds.


superpippo

182 posts

201 months

Sunday 12th February 2017
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I'm also looking for the same...anyone ?

matjk

1,101 posts

139 months

Sunday 12th February 2017
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Ruya seems to be the most popular one , I just tried one from buddiestech who advertise on Facebook , the picture quality is excellent but only for a few minutes then it buffers , this is only for the full HD stuff on SD it seemed stable , I don't think any are perfect for obvious reasons

Type R Tom

3,859 posts

148 months

Tuesday 14th February 2017
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I've been considering one too but nervous of picture quality. I hear rumors that you get a good connection during the free trial then it lowers once your paying.

What internet do people use? Fibre with CAT5 would be best I guess or is it the other end the problem.

talkssense

1,336 posts

201 months

Tuesday 14th February 2017
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Lols at people looking at dodgy illegal ways of watching subscription TV and worrying about picture quality:-)

Guess what, it will be nowhere near as good as legally paying for the channel from a legitimate supplier. Everyone of these dodgy feeds I have ever seen has been crap, heavily compressed with loads of artifacting (for obvious reasons)

People pay fortunes for an all singing all dancing TV with great picture quality and then feed it total crap. The driver for these cheapskates tends to be sport, which ironically is the subject with the most rapid movement on screen and so the thing that suffers most from a crap feed.


ReallyReallyGood

1,620 posts

129 months

Tuesday 14th February 2017
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Markytop said:
... but would like the extended Sky package (extra music channels, Discovery channels etc) rather than just the standard Freeview package.
Sky or Now TV?

Type R Tom

3,859 posts

148 months

Tuesday 14th February 2017
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talkssense said:
Lols at people looking at dodgy illegal ways of watching subscription TV and worrying about picture quality:-)

Guess what, it will be nowhere near as good as legally paying for the channel from a legitimate supplier. Everyone of these dodgy feeds I have ever seen has been crap, heavily compressed with loads of artifacting (for obvious reasons)

People pay fortunes for an all singing all dancing TV with great picture quality and then feed it total crap. The driver for these cheapskates tends to be sport, which ironically is the subject with the most rapid movement on screen and so the thing that suffers most from a crap feed.
Can't argue with that but I gave up on BT Sports for the same reason, jerky picture when streaming from my phone to chromecast. Might be better now, haven't tried.

mickytruelove

420 posts

110 months

Tuesday 14th February 2017
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No idea about the subscription but when i paid for sky and tried to use their streaming for F1 it was terrible. Ended up closing it and opening Kodi. much better picture.

RedTrident

8,290 posts

234 months

Monday 20th February 2017
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I pay for sky TV and also have Kodi. The truth is for football the Kodi streams are regularly better than on sky, particularly BT Sports. I also prefer the commentary.

pimpchez

897 posts

182 months

Saturday 18th March 2017
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IPTV isnt the way forward , there is always another way specially if you can get onto the V network .

Type R Tom

3,859 posts

148 months

Sunday 19th March 2017
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pimpchez said:
IPTV isnt the way forward , there is always another way specially if you can get onto the V network .
Care to explain more?

SuperchargedVR6

3,138 posts

219 months

Tuesday 21st March 2017
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talkssense said:
Lols at people looking at dodgy illegal ways of watching subscription TV and worrying about picture quality:-)

Guess what, it will be nowhere near as good as legally paying for the channel from a legitimate supplier. Everyone of these dodgy feeds I have ever seen has been crap, heavily compressed with loads of artifacting (for obvious reasons)

People pay fortunes for an all singing all dancing TV with great picture quality and then feed it total crap. The driver for these cheapskates tends to be sport, which ironically is the subject with the most rapid movement on screen and so the thing that suffers most from a crap feed.
Does this Kodi thing fall under that category? People I know (boxing & football fans as you say) keep banging on about it, saying I can watch absolutely anything for free. I'm thinking there are catches they're not telling me about.

I think I'll stick to my paid services if this Kodi thing is as schitt as I imagine it to be!

keeling54

186 posts

168 months

Wednesday 22nd March 2017
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You could try these guys. A mate of mine who lives in Germany and cannot get anything English uses it.

http://www.ghostwebhost.com/index.php

You need to register with the site first and that give you access to set up an IPTV subscription. It's a real faff to set up but works really well apparently.