Hello again! I'm sure you are all getting sick of my daily reviews of services but I committed to doing it, so screw you all!! I'm gonna keep going!

Sorry...been a long day! ;p

Anyways, for those who haven't read my other 3 reviews, this is the fourth in a series reviewing all the services I have tried over the past several weeks. I had said in the other reviews that I tried 6 services, but I was wrong...I forgot one, its actually 7 services since March 1st. Every service was tried for a full 30 days, although the next few reviews might come before I get to that point with those services. I am using a Dreamlink T1 for all testing. Here is the links to the other reviews if you are interested:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IPTVReviews/comments/64csch/manos_voodoo_review/

https://www.reddit.com/r/IPTVReviews/comments/64755w/manos_crowntv_review/

https://www.reddit.com/r/IPTVReviews/comments/642g8w/manos_epicstreams_review/

Today I am going to focus on a service that I actually forgot I had even tested!! Haha. IPTVExpress, or what is commonly called just Express around here, is the very first service I signed up for on a full 30 day trial. After reading alot of reviews on reddit and other sites, it seemed to be the go to server for high quality feeds. Maybe not quite as stable as IPGuys, but much better quality, so I went with it.

Now, forgive me if some of my information gets a bit wonky as its been about 2 weeks since my sub with Express expired and its been at least 3 weeks since I spent any time actually using it.

First things first...channel selection is ridiculous! Like Crown and Voodoo before it, Express is a massive provider with more channels than most people would ever know what to do with. Again, another service that provides a large selection of 24/7 channels that play tv shows and movies/movie series in a 24 hour marathon style loop. They also carry a significant number of international channels to go along with every English channel you can think of.

Picture quality is the best of the big three that I have tried (Express, Crown, Voodoo). Almost every channel feels like its in at least true 720p HD quality. Again, I am watching on a 65" HD TV, so picture quality is important to me. Very rarely did I feel let down by the quality of the feed with Express.

Where Express did let me down, and the reason I won't be renewing with them any time soon, was with their EPG. I've said it in every review, with a wife that hates change and gets annoyed easily, and a teenager with the attention span of a gnat, a quality, accurate, well populated EPG is integral for a provider's success in the Mano household! Express failed miserably in that regard in my opinion. Thousands of channels and not even 200 of them had any info populated on the EPG. Like Crown and Epic, I spent the time to scroll through the entire channel lineup of English channels and write down every channel that populated information so I could make a favourites list. It was a short list compared to a service like Epic that has about 600 channels and almost half of them populate. I believe, if memory serves, the number was about 186 English channels with info, and not all of those were accurate, although most seemed to be. Its frustrating, honestly, because I really don't have anything else bad to say about this service.

Stability was excellent for the most part. Sure, the odd time it would buffer, but overall extremely stable. In the 3 weeks or so that I used it I can only remember it going down completely once, and that was for almost a full day early in March. I remember there being some posts here on Reddit about it too because it was a pretty rare occurrence.

One thing I will say about these bigger services, like Express, Crown, Voodoo and, I will assume, IPGuys, is that there is virtually no customer support. These are faceless names in the IPTV industry and to my knowledge the resellers of these services don't have any direct lines of communication with them. If the service goes down, you won't get an explanation. If you are having trouble getting set up, you better hope your reseller is a nice guy. If you have a channel buffering, nobody is going to hold your hand and tell you its gonna be alright. If that's the kind of experience you are looking for, these services aren't for you. You need to hook up with somebody like /u/fr0-z3n and check out Epicstreams, or /u/fabiptv about Fab. These guys have direct lines of communication to the provider (or are the provider).

Overall, if what you are looking for is a full package of channels in high quality, stable feeds and are willing to sacrifice a poor level of EPG support, and general support, to get it, this is your service! The reality is that not having any true customer support isn't as important for Express because not much goes wrong with the service. Mostly, it works just the way its supposed to work.

Again, feel free to ask question if you have any about this service. I'm sure I left some stuff out of this review because they were out of mind for a couple of weeks. Should have done this one first a couple of weeks ago.