Epicstream - one month review

by mediocre2great

I am a newbie to IPTV and am most interested in Canadian (both French and English), US, French and Irish channels. On Christmas Eve, after browsing r/iptv and learning about various providers and resellers, I decided to sign up for Epicstream via the tdshost reseller.

I chose Epic because of their Canada-centric channel lineup.

THE GOOD:

  • Most of the Canadian channels are offered in HD.

  • The channels are organized well - major broadcast networks are first on the “All Channels” list, followed by basic cable networks. The US and Canadian versions of each channel (such as HGTV or Food Network) are placed side by side, which makes it easy to flip between either feed.

  • The service seemed reliable; only one short outage, about 15 minutes, in the whole month I tried Epic. I didn’t notice any buffering problems except on the French Canadian channels.

  • I barely used VOD or catch up but both seemed adequate (catch up channels were very limited compared to Helix, however).

  • TDS was a very easy reseller to use. They accept PayPal on their website and my Epicstream account was set up immediately upon payment.

THE BAD:

  • Although most Canadian channels are HD, they are 30 FPS so the quality is not great on live sports.

  • US local channel selection is very limited. When I first signed up in December, only Boston network affiliates were available. In early January, Epic added a handful of other cities’ local channels - but still only 69 locals instead of the 400+ that some other services carry.

  • Most of the French Canadian channels either did not work or had terrible buffering (TVA, for example). And Epic does not carry channels from France.

  • The price ($14 US per month) is higher than all the other IPTV services I’ve tried since, and Epic has fewer channels and worse picture quality than the cheaper alternatives.

My overall verdict on Epicstream: “meh.” Not bad but not a standout in any way.

WdM690419

Use to be the iptv standard , regrettably now you would get more joy out of a can of bud !

jamezee777

Thanks.

tv_viewer

Good review seems like all have issues of some sort. Kinda sucks paying such a premium and getting low grade video. Most IPTV services I have looked at just do not get the Canadian networks right the CTV and CBC channels are labeled wrong. CTV Montreal is listed as being Toronto. If you look for Toronto it is no where to be found Similar issues within CBC. So my suggestion is keep to the $5US providers great value for live TV. Happy Streaming - TV_viewer

Blue-Thunder

Yet you forgot to mention that Epic is in control of almost all their content. Something that other services do not have. All those channels with the E on it, that is there own channels. Other providers buy them as well, as I see them on Express and other providers.

HInspectorGW

I have been a subscriber for 4 months and I have been having issues. Normally I put in a ticket and in 24 hrs I have a response but over the last 2 weeks my tickets have been deleted with no response. I am currently unable to connect even though I still have over 2 mths left on my sub. I have been randomly seeing a msg within my account on their site saying my ip has been banned but I cannot confirm this as no one is answering my tickets.

Legion123abc

I see this review is of epicstream and many people mentioning epic...those are 2 entirely different services if I am not mistaken.

appandweb

Epicstream was one of the best iptv providers over there , and yes most of the channels are streamed directly by them which means they control these chans , but it seems they grew up so fast and could not handle the mass of users they have , and there servers are not enough . I stayed with epicstreams for 6 months , most of the chans buffer now and specially sport chans , they are a good service hope they can fix the buffer issue and update there servers and am sure i will have them an option again.

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At this time iam using iptvclouds they also have there own stream and amazing customer support , there stream quality is HD & FHD , no buffers ( some times on BeIN sports AR but its acceptable ) hope they keep the good quality and also keep there servers upto date in case they go bigger

Goldyflix

If you like french canadian channels you should try diablotv.. but they run for 25$ a momth but quality is good and has the most qc channels

tv_viewer

WPC iptv is good having more Cdn channels than Area-51 and WPC was a little cheaper not sure deal is still on

hddbunker

No Doubts Epicstream is one of the leaders of iptv , and once they were the best iptv and maybe the only iptv . Now the story changed , many users experience alot of issues with them and am one as well !

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At this moment i only recommend my current provider , 6+ month with no single issue iptv007 ( www.iptv007.com ) . It works good for me but maybe not for you , any iptv can work good for some and for other users no , it depends on many factors like internet speed , location and device , thats why its always a smart idea to test before you go for longer terms subs .