IPTV

torrevieja · 26-07-2018 12:42pm #1

Are people still using this service?

Do they pay yearly monthly ?

Any experience with this product appreciated

coylemj · 26-07-2018 4:27pm

What channels are you looking for?

IPTV is not a single 'product', the term encompasses any TV service you get delivered to you via your home broadband i.e. not from cable, terrestrial or satellite.

Examples available in Ireland include Now TV, Eir, Netflix and Amazon Prime.

torrevieja · 26-07-2018 8:58pm

all the premium sky channels

icdg · 26-07-2018 9:05pm

Now TV is your only legal option for that. You can pay either weekly or monthly (and even by day for some passes).

Paddyfixit2018 · 04-08-2018 6:50am

MOD:No advertising, but especially not illegal stuff. Straight permanent ban

Henry Ford III · 10-08-2018 5:28pm

I'm almost scared to post a reply here. What are posters allowed say here, and what are they not allowed to say?

p.s. IPTV is great

icdg · 10-08-2018 5:36pm

Basically you can’t talk about any service that’s pirating content. So if someone is offering you Sky Sports or recently released films for free or a very cheap price, then you can’t talk about it.

It’s okay to talk about - and this is not an exclusive list - Eir Vision, Vodafone TV, Now TV, Netflix, Prime Video, RTE Player, 3player, All4, Sky Go, VirginTV Anywhere, etc

Truckermal · 29-08-2018 5:56am

Henry Ford III wrote: »

I'm almost scared to post a reply here. What are posters allowed say here, and what are they not allowed to say?

p.s. IPTV is great

I have cancelled my Sky and I'm looking for an alternative not free or illegal but I would love if someone pointed me in the right direction.

lawred2 · 29-08-2018 5:58am

Truckermal wrote: »

I have cancelled my Sky and I'm looking for an alternative not free or illegal but I would love if someone pointed me in the right direction.

Now tv

davo10 · 29-08-2018 6:04am

Iptv is pretty good, but you have to have really good broadband. I have 145 speed, but the IPTV download still sticks and loses sound at times which is very frustrating when you are watching a film/live sport.

whomitconcerns · 29-08-2018 6:07am

It all depends on where you are located and what your broadband speed is. If you want the premium sky channels and no 'box' subscription then your only option is now TV.

Henry Ford III · 29-08-2018 7:30am

davo10 wrote:

Iptv is pretty good, but you have to have really good broadband. I have 145 speed, but the IPTV download still sticks and loses sound at times which is very frustrating when you are watching a film/live sport.

Speed is not your issue there I reckon. You can run IPTV using much slower internet than that. 20 meg gave pretty good results.

davo10 · 29-08-2018 7:38am

Henry Ford III wrote: »

Speed is not your issue there I reckon. You can run IPTV using much slower internet than that. 20 meg gave pretty good results.

TV is high spec Samsung 1 year old, connected by Ethernet to modem, IPTV still stops for buffering and when it does, I check download speed using Speedtest by ookla and there is no drop off so not a bb/dl speed issue, I think issue is IPTV itself.

Henry Ford III · 29-08-2018 7:47am

davo10 wrote:

TV is high spec Samsung 1 year old, connected by Ethernet to modem, IPTV still stops for buffering and when it does, I check download speed using Speedtest by ookla and there is no drop off so not a bb/dl speed issue, I think issue is IPTV itself.

Points to the provider ok.

SteM · 29-08-2018 7:51am

Henry Ford III wrote: »

Points to the provider ok.

Agreed. He should test a short sub with another provider to confirm.

Edit, might be the app that he's using on the TV too.

Ginger83 · 31-08-2018 2:29pm

Henry Ford III wrote: »

Speed is not your issue there I reckon. You can run IPTV using much slower internet than that. 20 meg gave pretty good results.

Is it possible to record a game if its pausing live and watch it later?

BronsonTB · 03-09-2018 2:32pm

Using IPTV for about a month (Paying Monthly), so far so good.

Ginger83 · 04-09-2018 9:46am

Ginger83 wrote: »

Is it possible to record a game if its pausing live and watch it later?

bump

coylemj · 04-09-2018 1:19pm

Ginger83 wrote: »

Is it possible to record a game if its pausing live and watch it later?

By 'pausing live' I assume you mean buffering delays.

The box would need either an internal hard disk drive (HDD) or allow the attachment (via USB port) of an external HDD to record and watch later and it would be fairly prominent on the list of features. Boxes like Apple TV and Now TV can not record.

Some boxes may allow you to specify a large buffer which could help to smooth out delays on the line at the cost of a slower startup. That is already an option with internet radio apps.

Headshot · 04-09-2018 7:17pm

Can anyone recommend a box that can be used to record IPTV?

SteM · 04-09-2018 8:44pm

Headshot wrote: »

Can anyone recommend a box that can be used to record IPTV?

The box they're discussing here

https://touch.boards.ie/thread/2057827739/1

You can use it for free to air channels and use it for iptv with full epg too. Add a hard drive and it'll record IPTV. Just get a decent IPTV supplier.

torrevieja · 04-09-2018 9:53pm

sorry folks but can you tell me is this worked by internet to get channels ?

Headshot · 04-09-2018 10:26pm

SteM wrote: »

The box they're discussing here

https://touch.boards.ie/thread/2057827739/1

You can use it for free to air channels and use it for iptv with full epg too. Add a hard drive and it'll record IPTV. Just get a decent IPTV supplier.

wow alot of pages to read, must be very popular.

Thanks SteM

Ginger83 · 05-09-2018 2:22pm

coylemj wrote: »

By 'pausing live' I assume you mean buffering delays.

The box would need either an internal hard disk drive (HDD) or allow the attachment (via USB port) of an external HDD to record and watch later and it would be fairly prominent on the list of features. Boxes like Apple TV and Now TV can not record.

Some boxes may allow you to specify a large buffer which could help to smooth out delays on the line at the cost of a slower startup. That is already an option with internet radio apps.

Yes buffering but if a game was recorded would it play without the pauses?

Henry Ford III · 05-09-2018 5:09pm

torrevieja wrote:

sorry folks but can you tell me is this worked by internet to get channels ?

It's streaming live video over the web.

BronsonTB · 06-09-2018 10:26am

Headshot wrote: »

Can anyone recommend a box that can be used to record IPTV?

Any decent box will have a USB port to allow you plug in a harddrive to download. I've not seen any boxes with large drives as they are designed for streaming live TV.

coylemj · 06-09-2018 4:19pm

Ginger83 wrote: »

Yes buffering but if a game was recorded would it play without the pauses?

Not necessarily. Buffering can get around the odd pause in the feed but it can only do much. If there's a poor connection with blackouts (the feed stops and resumes several seconds later) or elongated pauses in the feed (no loss of content) which fill up the memory buffers, you will lose sections of the feed, even if you record the entire program and do a playback.

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