Hi all, I’ve been into iptv for about two years now. I’ve used it through kodi, mag box, dreamlink, perfect player, stb emu and maybe some others I don’t recall right now.
In November I got a 4k tv (Black Friday). Since then I’ve had a lot of problems finding 4k content that I want to watch. I live in Canada, so pretty well all the streaming options available in the U.S. are unavailable to me. Netflix has some, but not enough, and google play has rentals available, and although pretty well all the new releases are there most of them aren’t available to stream in 4k.
Yesterday I got sick of it and started doing some research as to what my options were for renting 4k new releases preferably with hdr, and I discovered that iTunes is probably the best option for me here in Canada. I have an iPhone so I checked the iTunes Store and saw that every movie that has a 4k release was available in 4k in ITunes except for those released by Disney, which unfortunately includes a lot of big hits including avengers movies and Star Wars, but still that’s a lot better than my current options, or lack there of. The problem with that is that I don’t like the idea of buying an AppleTV just for that and then running everything else through another box. I mean the 4k Apple TV is pretty expensive, so what I’m wondering is, 1. what are my options on an Apple TV for iptv. 2. From what I’ve read you can’t use a vpn on Apple TV, can anyone confirm this. 3. For anyone who knows what else will I be able to do with it? I mean right now with android I have a slew of apps including kodi, terrarium, etc.
I guess to make a long story short although it doesn’t seem like I have a choice about this if I want to be able to rent 4k in the best quality available right now, I just don’t like the idea of paying that much much for a one truck pony and am Hoping for some advice. Thanks for any replies
You can run a VPN on anything if you have the proper router setup.
However, I do think that an AppleTV will feel like a downgrade for you since you're probably used to the open ecosystem that google brings us.
For IPTV, 4k is pretty much not a thing. Yes, Epic has a couple channels but you have to remember that 95% of the channels out there are not even broadcast in 4k. In Canada we have what, a few sport stations if that? So I wouldn't bother with 4k for IPTV. In fact, IPTV looks better on a 1080p tv then it does on the newer 4k ones. (I'm sure you're aware of this though). Not to mention if you're an audiophile like myself, stereo sound just wont cut it.
As for movies though, why not just download them and delete them after. Essentially that's the same as streaming.
I've started collecting 4k movies with Atmos surround sound and HDR, but these movies are upwards 60GB in size. But, they are free. And they probably look a lot better than the content on itunes. I cannot actually confirm that, but I suspect itunes uses some compression anyways.
For the $200 an appletv costs, you could pick up an old junker computer off kijiji, toss in a nice harddrive, and store massive libraries of the content you want and automate it all with free services such as sonarr/radarr/jacket or whatever else you want to run.
Then just run plex on that computer and send your library out to the slew of devices you already own.
My opinion though. It's not perfect, but there is no great 4k solution for you despite the marketing.