Hey guys,

So this is a review fabiptv. I am an experienced Kodi user, but with zero experience of IPTV outside of the free CCloud plugin which I only used for MSNBC.

I picked Fab because they offer cheaper packages without sports. I don't need sports, being forced to watch the world cup once every 4 years is bad enough - If I had all the sports channels I'd be overruled everytime I wanted to watch something on Sky Arts.

So I got the £4.50 monthly entertainment package to try it out. £4.50 a month was the best price I was able to find which still had all the UK and US channels I was interested in. I'm a few days in now and I'm about to set up a second connection and I'm ready to to renew for another 3 months (£12) when this month is up.

The channel selection is solid. It's not thousands of channels, but it's all the ones you'd need. On the entertainment plan I have about 140. That doesn't sound like a lot, but theres no filler there. Honestly, I can't think of a channel i'd want that i dont currently have. I signed up on Saturday, since then they've added like 20 new channels - it's pretty cool, every couple of hours I get a bunch of new channels to play around with. I think this is probably mostly down to the fact that they are a new (*kinda) service and still populating their list. Heres a channel list and you'll see what I mean https://pastebin.com/qcf6CrH5 .

Set up was pretty straightforward. As soon as i bought it i received an automated email with my login details and set up instructions. I've used Kodi for years, but I'd never attempted to add IPTV before. I found it pretty simple to add it to the built in PVR on Kodi (which is super cool because now on the Kodi remote app I can select channels and see listings right on my phone).

I had a couple of problems with the EPG - because I signed up just as the clocks were changing in the UK all of the channels were an hour behind (or ahead, i cant remember, daylight savings melts my brain), and some other really dumb questions. I opened a ticket and got a super fast and super friendly reply. I really get the impression from my emails with Fab and the facebook group (the owners regularly, like multiple times a day, post updates and reply to customers on there) that these guys are really trying to ace the whole customer service thing.

Okay so EPG issues. Once I'd fixed the timeshift problem with the help of the customer support guys (at like midnight on a sunday by the way) I realised there were a few other issues for a good amount of channels:

1. epg data was for the wrong channel (EG fox uk was getting fox usa listings)
2. there was no EPG data at all
3. the epg showed one programme, and only that programme, for the entire channel indefinitely. Like an episode of ellen on ITV2 UK starting at 10am and continuing for 3 days.

I went onto the facebook group and saw that other people had these problems too. The customer support guys had said that this was due to the clocks changing or something and would be fixed within a few days.

To be fair, that's proven to be the case. The vast majority of channel epg data is spot on now (there are some weird issues with a couple - but this is on their radar and will be fixed soon), and the streams all works fine.

Okay so the streams. I don't have anything to compare them to, but to my eyes they all seem pretty solid. Theres no noticeable lag on my end. The picture quality seems good, and audio is all fine. Most of the important channels are in HD, there are some which have both HD and SD (I have no idea why anybody would prefer to watch the SD versions but there you are), and a couple are just in SD. I really don't know what to tell you, it works just fine for me.

I can't vouch for their VoD offering because I haven't used it. Nor can I vouch for their sports content.

So I had never used IPTV before. I discovered it was a 'thing' on saturday, I bought fab on saturday night and was watching stuff within minutes. Now I'm a convert. I'm loving this so much that, like i said, i'm about to buy another package for a different computer, and i fully intend to renew.

I will say, it seems weird to me that they price an additional connection at £5 per month. That's more expensive than just buying another package (sports only and entertainment only are £4.50 per month).

I can't vouch for them other than saying that since i joined on saturday, they've been great. If this changes, I will update this post. I have no horse in this race, I'm a real redditor (mostly a lurker but you can see my comment history - I'm no bot) and the other reviews on this board helped me a lot.

If you want to sign up, here's a referral link (I get a discount if you use it - it wont cost you more) https://fabiptv.com/aff.php?aff=78

and here's a regular, non-referral link https://fabiptv.com/

*I gather that they were a reseller of something called Flawless for a while before now, so it's not like theyre a brand new operation, but theyve just this past week starting offering their own hosted service.

TLDR: Yeah I like it a lot. Stellar customer service, solid channel list, and good quality streams.