I first came across IPTV in June 2017 and as usual i was bombarded with trials, PM's the lot. The advice given at the time was try them all see which one works so i went from some ok ones to the truly horrific ones cough rapidIPTV ... anyway, i was sceptical about the whole thing and in Nov i decided to fully invest in this

i went with 3 providers at first .. Epic, Flawless and ACE. i used epic i gave the other 2 to friends and family to see which one was the most reliable and stable ( relatively ). fast forward to today and i must say that ACE is by far and away the closest I've got to a stable provider not only that but the support great too.

Epic is good too but i just didn't like the menu structure for their channels and the support (iptvboss) was a little lacklustre at best but after a slow start i don't have any major complaints. Flawless bless them just had problem after problem but people swear by them but i wasn't prepared to stick around.

So in the midst of all this ACE decided to go underground which had me worried at first as i was about to pull the trigger on a year long subscription but because of this i decided to play it a little safe and go with the quarterly option i think it was around £40 but anyway

In my honest and humble opinion don't bother with the full package and just go for the sports, obviously it depends what you're looking for but in my experience and this is for all the providers i sampled, the vast majority of the non-sports channels you don't know what you will get in terms of reliability as some work and some don't.

Its obvious these providers put all their time and energy into the sports channels and it shows cos lets face it this is where they make their money and if these are down constantly then say goodbye to repeat customers. ACE excelled in this department as i can't remember a time when i had problems with the streams during match days **. i have a 55 inch TV and the FHD quality is 6/10 at best some 3pm channels are really bad but this depends on which team you follow. Burnley v west brom wont have a quality stream as say Man city v liverpool and so on you get the idea.

I don't think there are many channels missing in terms of where to watch sports as the international section has a plethora of channels to choose from that is updated weekly to show which streams/matches they carry. Which brings me to my next point and that is that all users now require a VPN when watching channels that carry EPL in fact you will need a VPN for the whole service now and i don't have a problem with that frankly.

If you are new to IPTV do some reading about VPN before you buy as it will be an added cost. so if you see that it costs £10 a month for iptv you're more than likely have to pay another £5-7 for VPN a month so ask around for which 1 people prefer to use.

in conclusion i pay £7 for the sport only package with ACE and this works fine for me as it has all the channels and i'd like to also add that they have included in this package NBA League pass, NHL, NFL Game Pass and MLB for all you american sports lovers.

Great service hopefully it will continue like this throughout 2018

** i had an issue with Sky Shield buffering my connection as well as my VPN slowing down my internet so i had to choose a closer location.

I am an absolute beginner to iptv and was recently introduced to Future Sports Reborn by a friend. I just wanted to give my experience of their service for the last 3 weeks. I dont see them on here so I thought I would share. I dont know whether to try a few other services before renewing my monthly subscription with them. So I just wanted to check what else is out there for me to try and look at recommendations (recommendations appreciated) I am not experienced to know if they are offering a good or bad service. Im mostly pointing out the bad things i noticed and what worried me about their service.

British User - Firestick and Android phone

First impressions They dont have a website which was a worry for me when paying for something. Payment was via paypal or bitcoin ( I havent a clue about bitcoin ) 1 month or yearly. Monthly was very cheap so i dont mind using it until I am completely confident I am getting value for money. I had to be added to their facebook group to get in contact with them and set up my trial or ask for help. They dont seem to have an email address or phone number which is strange to me they do everything via facebook. Response via facebook was fast to help me with technical stuff and set up. (I am very untechnical) and issues I noticed. It seems to be very sports and movie focused there didnt seem to be as many lifestyle channels compared to sport.

Setup I was allowed 2 connections. I chose firestick and S8 android. I was told to download smart iptv app for firestick but after 7 days I had to pay a small one off fee for the app it wasn't included in the monthly price. The gse app for my phone was free.

Usability issues The channels are seperated into categories well, UK TV, US TV etc especially sport 3 seperate sports categories. Uk, USA - Canada and international sport. I dont like on the phone app the movie (VOD) section being seperate when you load the api section and click on the logo. But then the movies from the vod section are available when you look under the channel section under action etc. I dont see the point. There was no programme guide on the live events.

Channels Issues I havent been through every channel, I dont have kids so only tried a couple of kids channels and movies most channels were fine only a bit of buffering when I watched a sky movie channel but not enough to bother me. The football seemed fine and I had a few channels to choose from to pick the best quality. I noticed the live events channels seem to be blank when i checked. They told me thats correct they are for big events. Dont know if thats how it should be ??. The LFC TV channel froze I contacted them and they restarted it for me and that was fine. The F1 channel didnt seem to be in HD I messaged them and they told me it was on the backup stream. They dont have all channels in FHD yet. The history channel had no audio so they had to fix that for me.

Movie Issues (VOD) I didnt seem to have any issues with quality of the videos when playing them. They had just over 200 movies from the last couple of years, they promised another 500 at the end of the month. Not sure what is good amount. They need to add tv series like netflix and amazon they didnt have any. Some movies are in the comedy section when they are action movies etc. I cant get subtitles on the movies. My wifes first language is not English so I really would appreciate subtitles in other languages. They say they cant provide this??.

I dont want to come across as too negative but I am not sure fully what to expect from IPTV I am a new convert. Any advice would be greatfully received.

I've had Ipguys for about 3 months now. I can say the product is of good quality. The channel selection is large, so there is something for everyone. The video on demand is extensive, and has most current TV series. I found the EPG user friendly. It does buffer from time to time, although I am on a "High speed" WIFI. The price is fair, but not the cheapest. The only complaint I have, is that Sportsnet West is not available.

I have used these services for a little while now originally starting on redemption media, Redemption media had a good quality selection of FHD & HD channels. (would like to know the original provider of these streams) buffering was not really an issue not even on big PPV events the admin support is and still always their at a very reliable speed. Recently they have set up on their own server launching redemption 2.0 and i got to say it a massive drop in HD quality of service and the amount of channels its offering to what they was providing. The SD stream and backup streams are very poor it buffers very frequently. The help remains just as good from admins but the standard of streams has dropped.

its 4/10 for redemption 2.0

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Keep away from these guys . I subscribed for a month and my account was terminated the same day when i asked what happening they told its system bug . Still waiting fir 5 days to restore my service !!!

tl;dr

Honestly I don't see myself renewing with this service, unless things get a lot better within the next month. Vaders was better for me (although a lot of Canadian channels weren't working either at that time). Will be trying VooDoo next.

Canadian user - Using Perfect Player on Nvidia Shield

I haven't used this service for very long, this is just an initial impression of the "English" section, Can/USA sports channels, movies, and "Kids" section. I went through most, but not all channels and this is what I found.

Initial observations:

• Poor separation of Canadian and USA channels. Not as big of a selection as I thought for Canadian channels. They are all grouped into the "English" section. Its not clear whether I am selecting the Canadian or the US version of a specific channel. There are a few with labels, but not many.
• In perfect player, there is a lot of text overlap in the EPG. This wasn't the case using the official app, so maybe its a perfect player issue. I couldn't get the EPG to load using TVirl.
• Volume discrepancies between channels. Some channels had really low volume compared to others.
• Aspect ratios were all over the place. A good mix between full screen, black bars on top, and black bars on sides.

EDIT: looks like some of these channels are working again.

EDIT 2: while some channels are back up, it looks like other ones are down again, or have issues like no audio or no video.

English Section:

• Oxygen HD - strecthed picture
• Discovery US HD - not in HD
• Dtour HD - not working
• OLN HD - not working
• Slice HD - poor quality
• DejaView - not working
• Cosmo TV - not working
• H2 - no video, audio playing
• Lifetime HD - not working
• Hallmark HD - not working
• iON HD - stretched picture, poor quality
• BET HD - not working
• BET West HD - not in HD
• VH1 HD - not working
• MTV HD - looping video
• World HD - not in HD
• Create HD - not in HD
• Me TV HD - not in HD
• FXX HD - not working

Movies:

• Showtime Showcase HD - not working
• HBO USA HD - not in HD
• HBO Family - same stream as HBO USA HD
• Hallmark - no audio

Sports:

• NHL Network - wrong programming (showing a sitcom)

Kids:

• Disney HD - not working
• Cartoon Network Can - stretched picture

I focused mostly on the negative findings, but there were a few positives. There were a good number of FHD listed channels, and the the ones I checked were indeed FHD streams. The offical App seemed to work well, although I wasn't a fan of the way the EPG looked. There seemed to be a lot of UK channels and it seemed really well organized, and there seemed to be a lot of VOD content, but I didn't test any of that as I'm not interested in that content.

Bought 3 months($50.00) on Sunday got login details on Mon, try to use them on vader site and will not work. 3 emails later the POS won't reply or nothing. my fault I guess I didn't know til now there was reddit on reviews on suppliers

EDIT: Just started working today(have been checking all week) probably due to the efforts of /u/iptvking and /u/Bitiptv talking to Admins, Thanks guys.

I will refute that vader stream is scam but they are slooow in activation and response and latter is unacceptable.

EDIT 2/9/18 Would posted this sooner but I was dealing with passing of my mother so iptv was(is) the least of my problems. Still not working(thought it was but account with iptvking must been still logged in)got an email from them not to email them lol, I guess wrong address but emailed right one still haven't heard from them. Just thought i update don't want anyone to go through experience i have.

Im not a noob to iptv. I have been a hobbyist and have or had many different services each with their own issues. Things look today like the decline of the old (late 90s) sate days. Craigslist and Kijiji are flooded with people offering free tv/movies, cheap subs and even worse no support. I have used services on Mag254, Kodi, apks, web browsers and flex. I have a 650 mbps connection coming in so I never listen to the "its your internet" excuse.

For the last 7 days I have used Vader Streams and diligently tried to break it. I have used it on a MAG254 and it was flawless. I tried the app which is pretty ugly but again flawless. The kodi add-on worked perfectly although the guide takes a while to load. I peppered my supplier u/iptvking with questions about mac address changes or how many devices I could use and he always answered quickly and honestly.

I would be inclined to tell you its bad, horrible and will ruin your life in hopes that it doesn't get to popular and shut down, but alas I can't Its freaking awesome.

I will say the VOD has been spotty at best, but the catchup is working a treat for me. No more setting the dvr or searching for missed episodes. No eating for someone to upload a missed episode of a not popular series like CBB UK. just get it on catchup at the end of the hour.

Between subs to a plex service and Vaders I can literally get anything I need to see. As Kodi spirals down to the point where nail salons and barber shops offer cheap boxes and subs I'm glad I have a less published solution.

Thanks u/iptvking

Hi guys.

Just thought I’d warn everyone about ip2box.com. /u/ip2box

I joined them as part of their Black Friday deal for $8.50 a month. Yesterday my service randomly stopped working and I remembered they hadn’t emailed me a renewal invoice. I tried logging in online and it seemed as though my account had been deleted.

I email support and got this reply:

We changed our billing system to something that is easier for most customers. If you would like to continue please sign up again.

Not even an apology! Ridiculous! Who runs a business in this manner?

I reccommend everyone to stay away.

I like Vader’s but their catch up was realiable only 60% of the time. Currently testing flawless for a month and had good experiences with their catch up service so far.

Recommendations are welcome.

I can't recommend CKara Tech for your IPTV needs. I'm about to start my third month and it's been perfect. I downloaded the .m3u file and have used it with a Mag 254 box, Kodi and VLC. It had all be perfect. Any support or help I have needed along the way has been first class. We've been able to get rid of our sky sports subscription and use this wonderful IPTV subscription. I have no qualms about recommending CKara Tech!

Necro is terrible.

After a 4-5 days outage in December necro has been terrible. Just constant buffering, server rebooting, SCHEDULED rebooting during half time of live games (like, why do they think this sounds reasonable?), channels saying HD having 360p quality, a lot of channels pretty much have the wrong name and epg. Constant buffering during live events and peaks, unbearable at times that I have to get trials from others to even watch a game and surprise, they work very well.

You get what you pay for I guess, or not. For live games even the free live events you find on soccerstreams run better. Better to pay a bit more but have better service. Thankfully my sub expires soon.

I've been with Fab since October as my only source of TV. They've been pretty good, I experienced one outage (which was at the worst possible time after inviting the guys back to watch Rugby and drink more) which they apologized for and fixed the next day.

I've had a few instances of juddering/ buffering but support was fast and responsive and they've fixed it every time.

I mean with IPTV stuff will go wrong to an extent and the support is what separates providers I think. I've been happy with Fab so far, they've got a good selection at a good price.

If I could add one thing it would be the good food +1 channel/ good food on the archive but none of the providers seem to have this feature so it's not a deal breaker.