Clampdown on TV 'Dodgy Boxes'

most providers have a similar EPG to the likes of sky/virgin and offer usually a UHD/HD & SD versions of the main sports and movie channels. If you have good fibre broadband the UHD channels are as good as anything you’ll get with a dish and receiver.

anyone recommend a good IPTV provider ?

Unfortunately that sort of question cannot be answered around here.

That would be an ecumenical matter.

Highly unlikely in Ireland imo.

If you don't think Sky can see what goes through their network and identify IPTV traffic your deluding yourself. There is reason you have to use Sky DNS servers.

I know for certain Sky are throttling one IPTV provider.

I’ve never seen an IPTV provider with what I would consider to be satisfactory stream quality. Most fall down with compression artifacts and poor frame rates.

If they source the picture from an official stream, or from any pay TV provider - it’s going to be encoded twice (at least) before it reaches the viewer.

Anyone wanting to do this properly needs to be buying a formuler box ( latest version z11)they have developed their own app for running IPTV you can record fast forward/ rewind pause live tv. You can set up your own favorites, hide all the channels/ categories you dont use it's as good as sky imo. Buying a loaded box is a rookie mistake most are rubbish. Been using them for years with a decent service. The box is pricey but pays for itself in the long run

Im use tivimate app for a few yrs for my iptv, great little app.

Had that too it's good but the formulera app is better imo

A friend in the tech sector tells me they can take down whole servers but its very time consuming and extremely expensive. So are you going to spend all of this money targeting people, a lot of whom, would never pay for the legal service anyway.

I have seen it happen particularly before big pay per view boxing / MMA fights.

You can set it to record on the box itself or on a USB stick or I think, an SD card.

You can only record on the channel that's playing but if you pay for a second subscription you can record one channel and watch another. I haven't done this so can't say how well it works but from looking online it seems to be good.

I generally don't record anything as the catch up function works so well.

Would love to try out the catch up option, can't find one anywhere

Anyone know where I can get one in time for the Christmas?

I've bought a few android boxes off this lad and delivery was always very quick. I'd an issue setting one up(through a fault of my own, not the box) and he was very helpful thru WhatsApp.

He just sells the boxes tho which are completely legit, not IPTV, you'll have to search that up yourself.

On a side note, I dislike the term dodgy box, nothing dodgy or illegal about them. You can obviously put some dodgy apps or content on them if you so wish.