Subscriber feedback
What people say once a year is actually running
Reviews are worth very little when the seller prints only the flattering half. This page runs both halves at equal length: five things subscribers praise about the shape of the commitment, and six they complain about once they are inside it.
Praise clusters around the arrangement rather than the pictures: nothing sitting on file able to charge again, a second-year figure handed over in month one, minutes between agreeing and watching, and somebody answering before anything is agreed. Complaints cluster around home wifi, the absence of any term under twelve months, arranging it in a chat instead of a checkout, and a library that is vast rather than elegant. Both lists below run to the same length, drawn from households across Europe and the wider English-speaking markets. One step settles it for your own house: measure the line, and put your channel list to the desk, before the term starts.
How this feedback reaches us
Nobody is emailed asking for a rating, no discount is dangled in exchange for one, and no app prompts anybody to score us. What follows arrives through three routes, and not one of the three is under our control.
Names and identifying detail are removed. Rambling gets shortened. Nothing appears that the person did not actually write. And a criticism arriving repeatedly rather than once ends up in the second half of this page, however uncomfortable it is to read back.
What subscribers praise, again and again
Five themes account for most of the positive feedback. The order below tracks how often each one shows up rather than how well it reads.
Nothing waiting on file to charge again
This turns up in the inbox more than anything else, usually attached to a story about some other subscription that helped itself twelve months later. What gets described is closer to relief than to gratitude: an arrangement with a definite end removes the low background hum sitting underneath most recurring payments. Several people have said outright that it, rather than the figure, is what settled the decision.
A second-year number handed over in the first month
Knowing in week one what week fifty-three will cost matters to households more than anything printed on a channel list. The observation that keeps recurring is that no other seller would put both numbers beside each other. Receiving them together, in writing, in a message that lives on your own phone, is what turns a subscriber into somebody who mentions this over a fence.
How little happens between agreeing and watching
Minutes rather than days separate a settled payment from a first channel, and anybody braced for an installation window, an activation period or somebody knocking at a door tends to remark on it. Streaming sticks and Android hardware generate the smoothest reports. Samsung and LG panels add a short pause, since those platforms want a registration step finished before anything will play.
A reply arriving while the money is still yours
Support gets raised in two separate contexts. Before anything is agreed, people are struck that blunt questions about the term and the exit get answered rather than deflected, and more than one has said that willingness to answer first is what decided it. Afterwards the compliment concerns hours: two households the better part of a day apart both get replies.
The arithmetic against the old arrangement
One message keeps arriving in different wording: somebody adds up what a cable package and four or five streaming apps had been costing them together, then notices the annual figure here sits below a single month of that total. Those notes tend to carry a faintly sheepish tone. It is also the most persuasive material on this page, because anybody can redo the sum against their own statement instead of taking a claim on trust.
Straight from subscribers
Voices from across the markets covered here, on what they committed to, how long the wait afterwards turned out to be, and whether anybody replied when it mattered.
Month twelve came and nothing happened
That was the whole test for me. The year ran out, the login stopped, and no charge appeared anywhere. I sent a message a fortnight later and started a fresh year because I wanted to, not because a reminder frightened me into it.
Changed plan in March without a fight
Started on one screen and realised by spring that two of us wanted different things on at once. One message, a small difference to make up, and the second stream was live the same afternoon. No new contract, no reset year.
They talked me out of the bigger plan
I asked for three screens and was asked, plainly, how many televisions were actually going at once. The answer was one. They sold me the smaller year instead. That is the reason I am writing this at all.
Moved across without paying twice
I had four months left with a seller who had stopped replying. They set the new year running immediately and told me not to expect anything back from the old lot. Blunt, but at least it was true.
Fifty-nine euros, one line, done
One entry on the statement for the entire year. No small monthly charge slipping past unnoticed, no card sitting on file somewhere waiting for a date. I know exactly what it cost because I only ever saw it once.
I asked how to cancel before I joined
Straight answer: let it run out and stop replying. Nobody read me a retention script or pretended there was a form somewhere. A service willing to say that out loud is one I trust with a year.
A hundred and nineteen euros for the house
Three screens, twelve months, and everybody stopped arguing over the remote. Two teenagers, a tablet, the television, and a single figure I could point at when anyone asked what it was costing us.
Broke on a Sunday, fixed on a Sunday
One channel went down mid-evening. I messaged expecting to hear back on Monday and had a working stream in under ten minutes. Support that keeps turning up for the whole year is most of what you are subscribing to.
Second year was entirely my decision
Nothing was taken between the two. I sent a message, paid the same figure again, and every favourite and setting was still exactly where I had left it. That is how renewing should feel.
No account, no password, no upsell
There is nothing to log into on the site, which unnerved me at first and then made complete sense. One conversation, one login for the players, and not a single message across the year trying to sell me a bigger tier.
What subscribers complain about, again and again
Here is the half sellers usually leave out, which is exactly why it is the half worth your time. Six criticisms that keep returning, phrased the way the people making them phrase it rather than reworded into features.
Break-up that belongs to the house rather than the service
The most frequent complaint by a distance, and the least satisfying to answer, because the person writing in is entirely right that their picture keeps falling over. Where they go wrong is the cause. Look at the rest of the building: a router two floors up, a wireless channel every flat in the block is also sitting on, a console pulling down an update in a back bedroom. Each of those produces exactly the symptoms that get pinned on whatever arrived most recently. The desk works through it in sequence and a cable resolves the bulk of it. The honest version is that nobody can repair a home network from here, and that answer disappoints people however gently it gets delivered.
A year or nothing, which shuts people out
Sometimes four weeks is genuinely what somebody wants: a short run of fixtures, a stint staying somewhere else, a trial before deciding properly. Nothing here fits that shape. Holding to one annual term is what keeps the figure steady and the renewal quote identical, so it stays, and it costs us a real slice of buyers. Where a month is the honest requirement we say so and send people elsewhere, rather than talking anybody into twelve.
Nothing to click: no basket, no card field
Some buyers simply do not want to arrange anything inside a messaging app. What they had pictured was a basket and a card field, and being pointed at WhatsApp reads as either informal or slow. The criticism is legitimate. Underneath it sits a deliberate trade: somebody answers the awkward questions about the term before anything is agreed, and no card survives the transaction afterwards. Anybody after the one-click experience a mainstream retailer offers is going to be disappointed, and learning that now beats learning it halfway through.
Enormous rather than tidy
Worth saying plainly, because the complaint is fair. At this scale — 28,000 live channels, with 300,000 on-demand titles sitting behind them — the seams show. Cover art is inconsistent, older entries carry thin descriptions, and browsing takes longer than searching by name. One mainstream subscription app presents a far smaller catalogue far more gracefully. Subscribers who spent ten minutes on the first evening building a favourites list are the contented ones; those who never got round to it rarely are.
Listings and catch-up stop short of the whole list
Catch-up reaches the main channels across a rolling window of days, and it is not an archive. Guide data is populated for the large majority of channels, thinning out across the long tail of niche and international feeds. Commit a year expecting every one of the 28,000 entries to arrive with seven days of guide data and a catch-up window behind it, and disappointment is guaranteed — which is precisely why the channel page says so before a term starts.
The occasional feed wobbling on a busy night
This is the most specific criticism the desk receives, and that specificity is exactly what makes it believable. On the heaviest evenings a single feed can drop for a minute or two while a second one covering the same event holds steady. Anybody claiming a service of this kind never has an off minute is not being straight with you. What is true: the problem sits on a single feed rather than across the subscription, switching across takes seconds, and a message sent mid-event gets you moved to whichever feed is behaving.
Four households better off keeping their money
In these four situations the honest advice is to spend it somewhere other than here. Far better printed now than worked out by both parties a week into a twelve-month term.
- Any house whose line cannot hold 15 Mbps at the television. Deal with the connection first. Money paid to anybody at all will not produce a clean picture over a link that cannot carry one.
- Anybody who wants a single month. The figure is built around twelve of them, and there is nothing shorter on the shelf to sell.
- Anybody unwilling to arrange it in a chat. No checkout exists and none is planned, which is a perfectly reasonable basis for subscribing somewhere else.
- Anybody wanting one small, immaculately curated catalogue. What this is instead is an enormous library with live television attached to it.
Worth more than every review here: ten minutes of your own checking
Every review on this page, and on every rival page too, describes a different household: another room, another broadband line, another taste in television. None of those three is yours. Your own checking beats the lot of it, and the only thing it costs is a message.
Name the channels the decision genuinely rests on and get a written answer about each. Then ask for a demonstration on your own hardware, across the same line that will have to carry it every evening. Both halves of the refund terms are worth reading before rather than after. Finish by asking what the last day of a term looks like, and time how long a straight answer takes to arrive.
Badly done, that exercise costs ten minutes rather than twelve months, and teaches you something useful about your own network on the way. Well done, nothing on the price list has moved: one screen across twelve months is €59, a second screen makes it €89 and a third €119. On the entry plan that is roughly €4.92 a month, charged once, with the identical figure waiting a year later.
About this page itself
+ more Three messages, one chat window, and the year is under way
There is no contract to sign, no account to create and no direct debit to authorise. You say how many screens the household needs, the desk sends the total, and the login comes back in the same thread. What begins there runs for twelve months and then simply stops.
Put the hard questions before you subscribe
Twelve months is long enough that guessing is a bad idea. Open a chat and ask the difficult things first: what the year actually carries, what happens if you want a different number of screens in March, what month twelve looks like, and how you stop. Use whichever of these two apps is already on your phone.
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Pick the number of screens, settle the year in one go, and read the login back in the same chat a few minutes later. Card, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay or cryptocurrency — and once it clears, nothing of yours stays behind on file.
- The figure is published before anything is asked of you
- One charge for the year, never taken automatically
- Card, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay or cryptocurrency
- The login arrives minutes after the funds clear
- Around 28,000 live channels and 300,000 on demand
- Live sport and the big fight nights carry no surcharge
- Up to 4K on Firestick, smart TVs, Apple TV and phones
- A named person to chase the day something stops working
≈ €4.92/mo · one charge · it lapses at month twelve unless you ask for another year
Keep reading
The published prices
Three plans, three figures, and the awkward parts we would rather you read now than meet in month two.
See pricing →Who sets the terms
Who writes these pages, what each draft is measured against, and why the exit is never omitted.
About us →Judging any seller
How to tell a serious offer from a seller who will have vanished before the year is out.
Read the safety page →How this ends
What the closing weeks look like, what stops working and when, and why nothing needs cancelling.
Read about leaving →What the year includes
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Browse the channels →Ask before you commit
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