Clampdown on TV 'Dodgy Boxes'

You're being pedantic for the sake of being contrary.

Pointing out false claims is not pedantic, or it use not be back when facts had some currency.

To be honest I am probably one of the keenest pirates on here and have been for decades. But lets not kid ourselves we are not paying sky/tnt/premier prices because God forbid we miss the very Odd United match that is on 3pm on a Saturday. Better for our health the more we the miss at the moment.

We are not paying Sky because we can illegally obtain the product elsewhere at a fraction of the price.

If Sky and the rest were to obtain an Optus type deal, their prices would have to go up, but again we still wouldn't pay it, would we? The new deal with show 272 matches not including Premier Sports.

Worth pointing out too that Optus pays peanuts compared to what UK based broadcasters have to pay for football rights.

About £50m a year for all 380 premier league matches.

They pay that because they are based in Australia, matches are on in the middle of the night and really nobody gives a damn about the premier league there.

over 5 gameweeks there are 22 matches at 15:00 and paying an extortionate subscription for SKY/TNT/Premier Sports you can watch a total of 5 matches.

This was not a false claim at all, from GW22-GW26 there are 22 matches at 15:00 and 5 will be on Irish tv. It is a fact.

I never suggested otherwise.

Your initial claim which I responded to was Zero would be on "Irish TV".

The 3pm blackout means there could be 4/5 matches being played in the premier league and we can't watch any of them due to a draconian law.

Accept it and move on.

Good for you.

Again it doesn't negate the fact the post I replied to at the time made false claims.

Why you are getting upset over it I have no idea.

It happens everyone, move on.

Anything 100% free has not been worth the effort for me. Unreliable, ad riddled or go offline and new streams have to be searched for. Other options not free but cheaper than IPTV can be an improvement but still not been worth it for me. Then you have people that go for Now TV. Depends on the individual. Its hard to beat everything instantly available in 1 app + a good UI with an IPTV sub.

Edit after post above: I do keep kodi + addons on my box for the rare occasion something cant be got on IPTV. Thats maybe a few times a year max.

I never said there was free legal streams, just free streams.

I read it like you had stumbled on some way to obtain free legal streams.

My Bad.

These days I still use Kodi with streaming add-ons on a Linux laptop plugged into the TV

Oh good lord, it's an absolute horror show.

You must have some shít IPTV service, if you have the patience to put with Kodi and the likes.

You can download daily M3U links that would infinitely more stable for free and play it through VLC.

Again because you're being pedantic just to be contrary, as above you started talking about TNT and GW21 in response to me talking about lack of 15:00 kick offs between GW22-26

Well no, you conveniently left out GW21 in response to. Why would you do that?

Looking at the fixtures for the rest of the month the vast majority are not on the traditional Saturday 3pm time.

Now this is just getting silly and I bet no one is enjoying it, especially me.

So we will move on.

It must be something Ive not heard of then which is fair enough.

Can it be played on a large TV from a fire stick / tv box without having to cable a PC / laptop?

Can it be easily accessed with a remote control in a few clicks?

Can it be setup once and not have to be constantly updated / new streams searched for?

Is there a mobile phone app that can also run it?

Is it 4k + HDR?

Sure I subscribe to that. Never give up a good free source or it will get swamped 🤣

I'll call BS on this.

It's easy to post about something like that knowing that you'll never have to prove it because it's against the rules to name services.

Plus this idea that not naming it because of you did another million would join, give me a break, boards.ie only has about 10 users at this stage.

If you are for real PM me the details and I'll verify it.

Especially with an account barely a week old!

boards.ie only has about 10 users at this stage.

Brilliant. 😁

there used to a sub reddit about streaming soccer. they got banned & setup their own website. pretty good streams, gave up paying for smoothstreams because of it

https://torrentfreak.com/mpa-v-s-smoothstreams-iptv-server-photos-shutdown-details-emerge-221213/