First experience with IPTV, hardware advices?

by ssssank

Hello,

basically for job-related reasons I will spend a consistent amount of months abroad.

Therefore I decided to stop the contract with my cable tv provider and switch to an IPTV one, hopefully with some luck it will work properly.

I decided to go on with a provider that won't require a mac registration, therefore I would prefer buying an android/windows device rather than a mag system, I will install Kodi and I'll be able to use all the other smart-features of the OS.

Do you think that it will be better to buy an android device or a windows device? I read good reviews of the Mi box, but at the same time I read a lot of bad situations with incompatibilities and similar. Also I'm not sure with the versioning of the Mi box (3, 3s, 3 plus, 3 enhanced ??).

Also, I'm not sure I'll be able to find out an international version, here it is not sold and China's stores (gearbest?) clearly provide chinese versions, and I'd prefer not struggling to install the playstore, risking to brick the device.

Which are your suggestions? I would prefer not spending >100Eur, but I'm open to anything since I'm very newbye on this field and don't want to buy trash. Shield is way too expensive for the usage I will do.

Many thanks for any suggestions.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that I would also like to use other platform such as Netflix, Youtube, ...

akidel

go for the MiBox on ali express, you can get international version with no problems, I did :) I tried many IPTV apps and I like ProgTV the best, it's free for now and works great, I have a list with 5000+ channels, 1080p channels, DolbyDigital, DVB subtitles, everything works!

stokedcrf

Not sure what is wrong with Mac registrations. Even Android boxes and kodi use Macs for some servers.

By denying yourself Mac activations you're denying yourself amazing epg, timeshifting/pvr, and even video on demand functionality (which is crucial when travelling and dealing with different timezones).

I think you should do a bit more research before jumping the gun.

I personally would avoid a mag, but you really need to do more research.

Consider looking at the video reviews of stbs over in /r/iptvgta (the stb reviews are in the sticky)

Additionally, the new AVOV Android boxes are the first to support h265 which potentially could bring 4k and true 1080p to iptv in the near future with how bandwidth efficient it is.

ssssank

Something is not totally clear to me, hopefully someone will be able to answer. I looked at the list of providers sticked in this sub and I was about to subscribe to one of the main, but I'm actually reading a lot of people requesting this IPGuys, can you please explain me what is this? Thank you.