What the year buys
What an IPTV subscription includes
Twelve months, one payment, and a list of what that actually gets you — channels, on-demand, the guide, screens and a person on the other end. Also the part most subscription pages leave out: the three things sitting outside any subscription, which no seller can promise you however much you pay.
A subscription here buys twelve months of the full live channel list, the on-demand shelf, the programme guide, catch-up where a feed supports it, and support for the whole term — identical on all three plans. The only difference between plans is how many screens may play at the same moment. What it does not buy is your broadband, your hardware, or control over what an upstream source does next.
Why the plans are the same except for screens
Most subscription businesses are built the other way round. A basic level exists to be inadequate, the channels people actually wanted sit one step up, and sport is quarantined into a package of its own so it can be sold twice. It is an effective structure and it makes the advertised figure meaningless, because nobody ends up paying it.
There is one variable here instead of four. Screens. Every plan carries the same list, the same shelf, the same quality and the same support, and the figure moves only when the number of simultaneous streams does. That makes the price on the pricing page the price you pay, and it makes this page short enough to be honest — there is nothing to withhold and therefore nothing to describe carefully.
It also changes what happens when you get the choice wrong. If the only variable is screens, then buying too few is a small adjustment rather than a mistake you live with for a year. Moving up costs the difference across the months still to run and leaves the end date exactly where it was. Nobody has to be re-sold anything.
A subscription with one variable is a subscription you can check. Four variables and a package structure is a pricing puzzle, and puzzles are designed by whoever benefits from you solving them slowly.
Six parts of the subscription, including the one we cannot promise
Each entry below covers what the part actually is, where its edges sit, and who controls it. The sixth is not a feature at all — it is the boundary of what any seller in this market can honestly commit to.
1The live channel list, identical on all three plans
The list does not change between tiers. There is no premium level withholding the channels people actually came for, no sport bolt-on, and no unlocking charge on the big fight nights — the plans differ by simultaneous screens and by absolutely nothing else. Twelve months buys access to the whole list for the length of the term, including whatever joins it along the way. Feeds do move during a year: some appear, a few vanish when the source behind them does, and the ones worth having get replaced rather than quietly dropped. Judge any list, ours included, by the twenty channels your household really opens. That is a test you can finish in one evening.
2An on-demand shelf you can start at any point
On-demand sits alongside the live list instead of replacing it, and it works the way a video shelf works: open it, find a title, it plays from the start. Series usually arrive as whole runs rather than one season at a time, which is the difference between finishing something and waiting for it. The entire shelf belongs to the same twelve months, so nothing on it is surcharged and nothing inside it expires before the term does. Two limits worth stating. New releases appear when a source makes them available rather than on a schedule anybody here sets. And subtitle and audio options vary from title to title, because those are properties of the file rather than of the plan you bought.
3Picture quality, as far as the source will go
Every tier receives the best version of a feed that exists, because picture quality is not a lever worth selling separately and we do not pretend otherwise. That is the generous half. The honest half is that quality is decided upstream: if a channel goes out in HD, no subscription on earth turns it into 4K, and a seller implying they can is selling you an upscale with a confident name. What a European household realistically sees is a great deal of Full HD, a genuine 4K section, and the occasional feed that looks softer than its neighbours because it simply is. After that it comes down to your connection and your wiring, which is why the setup page spends so much of its length on cables rather than on apps.
4The programme guide, and catch-up where it exists
The guide is the thing that makes a list this size usable, and it is included everywhere without being paraded as a feature. Catch-up sits on top of it: on channels that support it you can go backwards and start something that has already finished, usually across the last few days. This is also the part of a subscription most likely to disappoint if nobody warns you, so here is the warning in advance. Catch-up is not universal and never has been. It exists channel by channel, it comes and goes as sources change, and any seller promising it across an entire list has not looked. Test it in the first week on the four or five channels you would actually use it for.
5Simultaneous screens, which is the only real decision
One screen means one thing playing at one moment, on any device, anywhere. Two means two and three means three. Installs are unlimited and always were. One set of credentials can sit on a laptop, a tablet, two handsets and every television in the building at once, and not one of those installs is counted until two of them start playing together. Households routinely overbuy here, which is worth saying on a page that would earn more by staying quiet. Count the evenings when somebody genuinely watches while somebody else is already watching. If that is rare, one screen is plenty, and moving up part-way through costs the difference across the remaining months rather than a whole new year.
6What twelve months does not buy
Your internet connection is not included and could never be. The stream arrives at your router, and everything between that router and the television belongs to your house — the wiring, the wireless, the neighbours on the same frequency. Hardware is not included either, because nothing is sold, shipped or rented here at all; the apps run on equipment you already own, which is the reason the entry figure is what it is. The third gap is the one that matters. A subscription passes on feeds that originate somewhere else, so when a source changes format, drops a channel or simply has a poor evening, the effect reaches your screen and paying more would not have prevented it. What we can commit to is what we control: the term, the figure, the screens, and a person answering when something misbehaves.
Choosing a screen count in four questions
This is the only decision in the entire order, and most households answer it by feel and land one tier too high. Four questions get you there deliberately instead:
Not how many televisions you own — how many evenings a month two people genuinely play something in parallel. If the answer is rarely, one screen is the correct purchase and the rest is habit.
Installs are unlimited. Six devices can carry the app on a one-screen plan and nothing will object. Only concurrent playback meets the cap, and the number of things genuinely running at any one moment is far smaller than the number of devices.
A phone on a commute or a laptop in another country still counts as a screen while it plays. A household that watches in shifts across time zones needs a second stream more than a household of four does.
Very little. Moving up is charged as the difference over the months you have left, and the end date does not shift. That makes starting lower the cheaper mistake of the two available.
Whichever count you land on, the sequence around it is the same: agree the term, get the end date in writing, then pay once. The full walkthrough is on how to subscribe, and the mechanics of moving between plans are on changing your plan.
Our twelve months against the two things people usually compare it to
Channel lists look broadly alike wherever you look. What actually differs is the shape of the commitment: how many times you are charged, what is held afterwards, and how much effort walking away takes.
| ★ Clearest terms IPTVSubscribe | Unnamed IPTV sellers | Cable and satellite | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost per month across the year | €4.92 | €4–14 | €45–80 |
| Times you are charged in a year | Once | Twelve or more | Twelve, plus add-ons |
| Card left on file afterwards | None held | Usually held | Held as standard |
| Renews without being asked | Never | Often | Automatically |
| Price readable before contact | Quote in chat only | Intro rate only | |
| Sport and the big fight nights | Inside the year | Charged again | Extra bundle |
| True 4K rather than upscaled SD | Rare | Top tier only | |
| Holds together on a busy evening | Drops out | Throttled | |
| Runs on kit you already own | Some of it | Their box, rented | |
| Gap between joining and watching | About 5 minutes | Whenever they reply | An installation date |
| Minimum term you are tied to | None | None | 12–24 months |
| What leaving involves | Doing nothing at all | Chasing a stranger | A retention call |
One figure, and it buys the lot: every channel, the sport as it happens, the ticketed fight nights, the whole on-demand shelf. There is no equipment on loan, no feature held back for a dearer tier, and no forgotten renewal date waiting to take another payment in month eleven.
What the twelve months covers, and what it cannot
Everything above this point was written to arrive at this table. Four rows are simply included, at no extra cost on any tier. Two are deliberately amber, because they depend on the feed rather than on the plan and it would be dishonest to colour them green. The last two sit outside any subscription and always did.
| What you are asking about | In the price? | What that means in practice |
|---|---|---|
| The full live channel list | Included | The same list on every tier. Screens are the only difference between the three plans. |
| The on-demand shelf | Included | Films and complete series, restocked weekly, with nothing on it carrying a separate charge. |
| The programme guide | Included | Now and next across the list, which is what makes a list of this size navigable at all. |
| A person answering for the whole term | Included | The same thread you ordered in, for all twelve months rather than the first fortnight of them. |
| 4K on any particular channel | Depends | We pass on the best feed that exists. Where a source is HD, nobody can invent the missing detail. |
| Catch-up on any particular channel | Depends | Some feeds carry days of it and some carry none. That is a property of the feed, not of your plan. |
| Your broadband and your wiring | Not included | The stream reaches your router. Everything past that point is your house and your equipment. |
| The hardware you watch on | Not included | Nothing is sold, shipped or rented here. The apps run on devices you already own. |
The amber rows are the ones worth testing in your first week rather than discovering in month eight. Open the four or five channels where catch-up would matter to you, and check the picture on the ones you watch most. Both take an evening, and both are far easier to raise while the order is still fresh.
Beyond the content, three things are identical across the three tiers and worth stating in one place. The term is twelve months, ending on a date you are told before you pay. The payment happens once, and no card is retained afterwards because none ever arrives here to retain. And nothing renews on its own, so a plan you stop wanting stops costing you money without a phone call.
Support is the same on every tier as well. The desk answers in the thread you ordered in, for the whole term rather than an introductory window, and it is the same people whatever you paid. A subscription that tiers its support is telling you what it thinks of the tier underneath.
What that leaves is a genuinely simple product: one list, one term, one payment, and a number between one and three. The figure for each is on the pricing page, and the day it ends is discussed in advance on renewing a subscription.
The subscription does not change with your address. Same list, same shelf, same guide, same screen counts, same twelve months whether you open it in Rotterdam, Dublin or Denver. What differs between markets is only the figure printed against it, which is set locally rather than calculated from a floating exchange rate at the moment you pay.
In euros that is €59, €89 and €119 for the year, one payment each, with no method carrying a surcharge and nothing added at the end. One charge does sit outside our control. Where the currency you pay in differs from the currency your card was issued in, some banks add a fee of their own for crossing that boundary. Settling in your own market sidesteps it entirely, which is the whole reason the local figures exist.
Each market has its own page carrying its own amount — the Netherlands, Ireland, Britain, Australia, Canada and the United States — and they are collected on the subscription by country hub.
Every seller in this market advertises a channel figure, ours included, and it is close to worthless as a way of choosing between them. Lists inflate easily: regional variants, duplicated feeds, backup versions of the same channel and hundreds of things nobody in your house will ever open. A bigger number is not a better subscription, it is a longer scroll.
The measurement that means something is narrow and personal. Write down the twenty channels your household actually watches, then check those twenty on a busy evening. Twenty working feeds is a good subscription. Twenty-eight thousand entries with three of your twenty missing is not, however impressive it looks on a plan card.
The single variable across our three tiers is how many streams may run at the same instant — €59 for one, €89 for two and €119 for three. Set against twelve months, the entry figure works out near €4.92 a month, taken in one go, with no card retained afterwards. What arrives before that first evening is described on how to subscribe, and what to verify before committing is on is a subscription safe.
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+ more The extra tiers add screens. They do not add channels.
One screen or three, the library sitting behind the login is identical. Nothing is held back for a sport add-on, no channel pack appears halfway through, and nobody messages in month six suggesting an upgrade. There is also no stored card with a renewal date pencilled against it, because there is no stored card.
- Around 28,000 live channels, European and English-language alike
- 300,000 or so films and complete series, restocked every week
- Live sport and the pay-per-view nights, already inside the year
- True 4K next to Full HD and HD, never SD stretched to fill a screen
- A guide that works, with catch-up across the busier channels
- Servers built for peak load, published uptime of 99.9%
- Smart TVs, Apple TV, a Fire TV Stick, iPhone, Android, Mac and PC
- The login lands within minutes of the funds clearing
- One charge for twelve months — nothing is ever taken automatically
- Refund terms written out and readable before you commit
Twelve months in, here is how it went
Notes from households in Ireland, the UK, Australia, Canada and the United States, all of them about the parts that only show up over time: what the year actually delivered, what happened at month twelve, and how leaving or staying was handled.
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.
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