Are all IPTVs behind the actual TV schedules?

Question

For example when I am watching the Premier League, the match is delayed by about a minute or two on most of the streams. I know it happens with online streams. Is this something that happens with all IPTVs?

Scotsmania · Accepted Answer

Even legit services can have a delay, when I had bt sports through virgin cable the goals would get posted on r/soccer before they happened on my tv.

synacksyn · Answer

Delayed from what? What are you using as your benchmark? It is not uncommon for games to be a little delayed.

FastSellerService · Answer

Of course they are. When you invent data transfer by the speed of light, there won't be delay.

XepiaZ · Answer

Ye every provider I've tried has had a delay of about a minute or two compared to legal ways of watching TV

Geo217 · Answer

Strange one but my legal provider was 30 seconds behind my dodgy iptv..how is that possible?

Allrounder1234 · Answer

Most providers have some delay however smoothstreams have at most a 20-30 second delay often under 15 for EPL which is incredible really.

kinderjw3 · Answer

Smoothstreams wwe ppv yesterday was 15 seconds ahead of actual wwe Network. Crazy

marczwaan · Answer

Restreams the word is simple.. there is always a delay that way... 20sec delay per restream so if you have 2minutes then your provider is nr 6 in the row.. go for a raw stream provider then it is 20sec max

Jarrod_Mullins · Answer

All IPTV services will have latency, but latency is not the key point to measure the quality of IPTV services, the most important thing is that no buffer is needed.