I am been using IPTV for a month and I love it, I don’t mind the small percent of time where it buffers or is down, $15 vs $85 is not brainer for me. Now, I am wonder how long is going to last? I read that for some countries you need VPN, does anyone know why? Do you guys see government attacking IPTV providers?
Just looking for opinions and facts! Thanks for reading, looking forward to read your comments.
Blocking happens in the U.K. when the football (soccer) is on, but that’s about it that I’ve heard about.
I think you can look at what happened with music to predict the future of IPTV. Some large ones were shutdown like napster, but due to the sheer number of "pirates" and the demand of users never really stopped, as its too easy to start a second or third site so don't see it ending anytime soon. And there will continue to be competition from large company legit IPTV more expensive, more reliable, but less channels. The IPTV providers are doing what they can to avoid legal issues, using resellers, having limited enrollment, cloned sites with different names. With music and video piracy already beyond being stopped, not sure the governments will even bother trying to stop another one.
My ISP is already blocking some IPTV, im in canada. Out of the dozen or so IPTV providers i have tried so far before settling on my main providers my ISP has blocked 2 of them requiring me to use a VPN.
VOD can be different from each providers. Price can be different, find someone running a special for a month, say $10. I'd buy it, Vader has multiple streams you can watch all at same time, that was nice for me for a while, then didn't the multiple steam at the same time so I went to something cheaper per month.
And yes ppl say never buy a year script, but at Christmas, I bought a year for $36. So if I can get at least 3 months of that, it's worth the price, IMO.
With cable companies struggling to keep their profit margins increasing, and right now increasing rates on their old customers not jumping ship, I think it's only a matter of time before they start trying to go after first the IPTV distributors. But obviously not these cable companies directly, they don't own the networks, they're basically just another IPTV reseller, but legal of course. If that doesn't work I think the big corporations controlling these networks could potentially have ISPs report to them whose connecting to what, sort of like how users got warning for torrenting. First ones to get hit with these will be the users without a VPN, after some big cases and these users dragged around the mud, more users will take to using VPNs and IPTV will continue.
In a way I think these IPTV services trying to get so big, besides user base and more their amount of channels, is what get's them in trouble. If they were smaller, say like a copy of Sling, Vue, Youtube TV, etc., they wouldn't have so many networks on them. I don't know if it'd be less cost hardware side, as it's only 50-90 channels, that they could still profit as much if they only charged maybe $5 for such a thing. Right now they are basically the IPTV cartel, going smaller would make them a just a drug dealer, but with big risk there is huge reward. If I had the courage I'd be in that business too. LOL
I'm also new to this wonderful world ... but I think this is just the beginning of a long march in the continuity of technology. Otherwise, the war of concurrency or anything else. Like power or money. Internet is this dimension that is visible for everyone madamme madam ... But that is unknown to more than 80%. IPTV just born!
VPN will be a necessary for everyone. People talking about China and the Great Firewall. But, there is a police state in the West watching what ever you are doing over Internet. They spy on us to model our opinions and also send us to jail if we brake their rules (aka copyright violations, etc). Net neutrality is almost gone.
How do these providers actually get this Many channels? Do they have multiple subscriptions? I always wondered what this looks like behind the scenes.
Im new to IPTV I amin the US. So far it has worked flawlessly maybe for one time it did not work for a PPV fight. Should I go ahead an get a VPN as an extra layer of protection. I hate to get blocked off during the upcoming SuperBowl.
Its going no where anytime soon mainly because you will need the ISP's and the networks to be working together and its not in the interest of the ISP to upset their customers because some guy from Sky or ESPN is losing money. enjoy it while it lasts
Personally think it's here to stay, may have issues down the road when the original providers start using more complex encryption, regarding some countries blocking it yes some are but getting around them with a vpn is extremely easy.
Is IPTV actually illegal or is that a 'grey' area?
Been using it over 2 years now. I have had many different providers. Never over a 6 month script.
When it gets more popular and starts drawing more attention it will become fully illegal. Because it is. Do you really think that the provider forwards some money to the TV stations? The streams are pirated and resold between IPTV providers, but the original channels get nothing.
For now it’s on the low end of the radar.
But it could become more prominent at which time ISPs will be required to kill it. We will then use VPN for a little while, but that will complicate things too much for 90% of the consumers at which point it will die out.
23 day account. Yeah no.
Live the moment mate , since the 1980s no one stopped windows from being cracked , as one of our fellows here said : ( but as once some Microsoft boss said, we have 5000 security engineers trying to protect our software, while there are 500.000 people around the world trying to break the serial number.. )
I bet iptv will not end soon , come on even netflix movies are all over the net . just enjoy the cheap service and let the cable guys suffer
Stay on the safe side no matter what iptv service you use , personally i use iptvclouds and they are gr8 in all ways , No buffering, customer support ext.... BUT NEVER BUY a 1YEAR or 6 MONTHS plan from ANYONE , i simply go with 1 month or 3 MONTHS MAX , coz as you said no one know the future of IPTV or apps or devices that will keep supporting them . For me 1 or 3 month is a risk free investment with any iptv provider even if there reputation is 1000/100
Stop the wondering, enjoy the service. No one knows how long will it last, but as once some Microsoft boss said, we have 5000 security engineers trying to protect our software, while there are 500.000 people around the world trying to break the serial number...