I feel like its about time I start reviewing the services that I have been trying for the past few weeks. I got into this "hobby" towards the end of February with an eye towards saving a little money. Of course, my personality is such that I have to research everything beyond what most people do, so I have subscribed to 6 different services for a full month at various times over the past 6 weeks...so not saving much money! Haha!

I am watching these services on a Dreamlink T1 through their DOL app almost exclusively, although I have tinkered with Kodi a couple of times as well.

All that said, I plan to review all 6 providers over the next week or two to hopefully help some people out. I am starting with Epicstreams, handled on reddit by /u/fr0-z3n very ably. In fact, that might be one of the best parts of this service, the excellent customer service provided through reddit, facebook and email. Signing up was as easy as sending him an email, paying through paypal and entering the provided URL into the T1. I'm sure its a bit more complicated for the Kodi users, but on an STB like the T1 or MAG, its easy.

I have used Epic for almost exactly a month now and I can honestly say its among the most stable that I have tested. Crown and Express were possibly a bit more stable as Epic went through some server maintenance that caused a couple of outages over the month. Nothing terrible, especially for a guy with 3 or 4 other services available to him!

One thing that is very important to me as a married, 42 year old who is pretty tech savvy but has a wife that isn't, was a solid EPG and good stability. While there are plenty of the 600+ channels that Epic provides that don't have EPG info populated, there were over 200 english channels that did, and that was plenty for us. Compared to some other services, its more than adequate.

We are more into the movies and TV shows than sports at this time of year, and Epic offers alot of good options for us. They have UK channels, which is nice for my wife and her British heritage. They focus primarily, though, on the US/Canadian channels and they are plentiful, with good EPG support and excellent quality.

Maybe the best thing about Epic is the video quality. It seems like every channel is in HD quality. I watch on a 65" TV and never does it feel like I'm watching an SD feed. Aside from the maintenance outages, the channels are consistently there and stable. I've had maybe two evening of serious buffering over the 30 days.

If I had to rate some negatives from the service, it would be the incomplete EPG and the order of the channels. Having the English channels grouped together better would be a great help and having more info available for the EPG on some of those channels would make the experience almost perfect.

Epic has been my most reliable service over the past 3 weeks. When the other services go down, I switch back to Epic. When my EPG mysteriously disappears on another service, I switch over to Epic and its just like it was the last time. Very consistent.

For anybody looking for high quality video feeds with excellent customer support and a more than adequate EPG and channel selection, you can't go wrong with the value of Epicstreams.

Feel free to ask any questions about the service and I will try to answer them.