Hey guys, been a while since I reviewed anything but wanted to get this one in. Based on other reviews posted here, I jumped on the Team Orion bandwagon a couple of months ago and I thought I'd share my experience.
It is crypto payments only, which I love. With all the carelessness you see around here with openly advertising and saying you take Paypal, it's an invitation to getting shut down or worse, and putting customers at risk. These guys won't touch Paypal with a ten foot pole even if you ask privately. They've put a lot of effort into remaining anonymous. They've even got some chat software I've never heard of but is ultra secure, not like Discord or Telegram. So, that's first off...they actually set themselves up properly and it was likely a lot of effort to do it at the cost of convenience. So if there's a negative, for some people it'll be that...if you don't care about privacy and security you might find it frustrating.
Anyway, onto more important things...the service itself. So, last month they did hit a snag with some load balancing issues. During that time they were completely open and honest about it and communicated what they were doing to fix it. They promised it would be fixed before the Super Bowl...man were they right.
Last night's Super Bowl was streamed in 4K. On that 4K stream, there was not one instance where I buffered, crashed, or anything. So I would say they made good on their promise. Sports and events are beautiful, and even regional locals are great and they had a plan for when PSVue shut down.
It is North American based...so there's a heavy emphasis on US, Canada and UK as well, but for "footie" fans it's there and it's good but it's not as in depth as other services I've seen and I know it's not really a big focus for them so it's more for North American viewers. Some 1080p 60fps channels are starting to appear too so the quality is just getting ridiculous.
EPG is good, they've had an issue this past month with it causing some kind of problem but it seems to be sorted out now and it's filling back in.
No catchup. Very minimal VOD but there are free apps for that anyway so I don't know why anyone uses those features with IPTV...just hogs resources for something you can find for free anywhere.
This has been commented on other reviews before but the events these guys carry is insane. Every backwoods dirt bike race and underground fight scene event are here along with all the big events...I haven't seen any of these anywhere else. Not that it's something you plan your weekend around watched but when you flip it on and see the midget boxing championship between Smidge the Doorman and Grr the Midget who isn't gonna stop and watch? lol
Anyhow this is my first big switch from my other provider in about a year and a half and I've tried a bunch of other services in that time. For $11/month you really can't go wrong, this has become my brand new main provider, really solid and combined with a seller who actually takes security and privacy seriously, I wish more people set up this way.
9/10, if the stability shown during the Super Bowl continues it's a near perfect score from me.
"They've put a lot of effort into remaining anonymous"
Well, not anymore...