Clampdown on TV 'Dodgy Boxes'

Tivimate was rejected from the amazon app store, so they already have a dim view of it.

That was an interesting listen - thanks.

I dont do illegal streaming myself simply for the reasons they discussed - i.e security risks on my home network and privacy - I dont want my IP address associated with illegal activity that may be investigated.

But for peeps that do use illegal streams, I have no issue with that whatsoever as I sympathise because the current legal streaming options are an unaffordable basket case.

Afterall, I would engage in 'geo-piracy' extensively on all my streaming services (with the exception of Now TV) to access cheaper content from legit sources through cheaper regional pricing with a paid VPN. But it does take effort and maintenance, and has been getting harder in the last couple of years. The benefit is that the whole family can access services across all the devices in the house simultaneously using legit apps.

I did like the view point that what is driving demand for illegal streaming is that consumers simply want easy access to all games at a reasonable price and that this actually could help drive innovation to develop a solution in response, as we saw in the music world. Who ever sorts this will win.

I just hope its not the Saudi's. But I think I will be wrong.

I suppose it can be done as in the case with NDS Videoguard, when NDS/sky changed the encryption, card sharing died.

The problem is implementing this tech in the tv networks and having some capable hardware on the user end, software be easy crack. I don't know if it's even possible.

One problem with piracy is rising costs for the consumer and if they had complete control over piracy then prices will rise to the point people will not want to pay anyway. The other problem is too many streaming services costing too much.

Torrents are another still very popular and rising again alternative, as long as content exists on Disks, streamed as it is now it will be pirated.

We could see the day we only have access to an Intranet like in North Korea, they have no access to the global internet. There content can be strictly controlled. Wo knows ? maybe then everyone will go back to being more sociable people and go around to people's houses playing music and singing songs lol. Might not be a bad thing.

a north korea approach will never occur, the internets is safe, plough on with your iptv, tis all good

I installed Bluestacks android emulator on my laptop and it works great, give it a go.

It's using about 2.2 Gb ram, I have 40 GB total in use is around 20 Gb because I have some Chrome tabs open and some other bits.

Interesting development being reported by Android Authority

Yep - BBC iPlayer works but its their live UHD content will only show in SDR (if at all) eg live streams such as concerts or sports events.

What does HL9 do ?

Definitely hit a nerve there, you work in the industry somehow or another ? why would you care ? If Sky went tits up tomorrow I couldn't care less, or the entire movie industry collapse I couldn't care less. I do hoever spend a lot more time these days watching youtube, there can be much more interesting content from priviate individuals than entire movie industry, a lot of crap too but youtube is one place I can always rely on to find some interesting content, I don't watch as many movies or TV shows as I did because a lot of them are crap these days, I hardly use IPTV streaming either despite how easy it is to access the content just isn't there, if I had to depend on SKY to entertain me I would go mad so if they went bust tomorrow I couldn't care less, I'm sick of looking at so much CGI content anyway. Next all we'll be looking at is robots…….

The real issue is content, when it was mostly Netflix you could find someting to watch fairly easy but now that there are so many it's hard to find good content on every streaming services, Hollywood aren't doing so good because of all the failed movies etc, people aren't interested in a lot of the crap they're making these days.

You're right about Mp4 , if it's on Bluray it can be ripped and compressed and voila, mp4 in X265 glorius compression, more quality same bandwidth, I love it. Torrents are getting more popular again.

I can't see how they will ever stop piracy, they tried to take down the torrent sites, they can't another will just pop up, they tried to shut down pirate bay, didn't work, who needs IPTV streams when you can get so much on torrent ? There is a benefit to play instantly of course but still, torrents are a viable alternative espcailly when you want to download a series for the plane.

Whats stopping you from buying a cheap and cheerful box from China? My latest movie projector has one built in so it plays directly and will connect to hotel WiFi.