Sky tv

by watty2018

Why are so many IPTV provider's dropping sky sports channels.

gaz82

You realise a 50fps Sky Sports stream does not exist at source? IPTV providers may claim this but in essence all they are doing is upscaling.

In the U.K. Sky broadcasts their streams at 1080i which is effectively 25fps.

iamnigelsmoustache

Presumably legal threats. You'd have to ask the supplier themselves. There's plenty that still have them.

fooali

Theyre not

starfishrimmer

Coverage of all EPL games is divided up between Sky and BT, thus they have a vested interest in shutting down illegal streams of (in particular) football.

Between them Sky and BT have more than half of all UK internet subscriptions making it trivial for them to sniff out iptv traffic and hence the source servers.

They have legal departments with (effectively) unlimited resources.

They will protect their investment

Sylocule

My current provider isn’t dropping them. One Globe and one separate 50fps stream.

VlcMackey

Maybe quality? The 30fps means i never use them, watching on US instead