The 45 Questions People Ask Before Cancelling

Usually the live-TV service and the sports pass outright, and one of the two general catalogue platforms in practice. What it does not replace is the platform carrying a show your household genuinely follows. Most people here end up keeping one platform and dropping the rest, which is still a substantial reduction on four or five separate bills.

No, and you should not. Take a trial and keep every subscription you have running. An evening with both in front of you tells you what a comparison table never will: which of the things you pay for you actually opened this week. Cancel afterwards, once you have evidence rather than an intention.

One month on a single screen is $15. A full year is $69, which works out near $5.75 a month. Tiers for two, three and five screens at once are on the pricing page. For scale, a single month here is less than one ad-free streaming subscription, and the year is less than most people spend on one platform in six months.

If a device runs Netflix, it runs this. Fire TV Stick, Android TV and boxes, Samsung and LG sets from 2016 onward, Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, Roku, Windows, Mac, MAG and Formuler are all covered by a written walkthrough. The account is a standard Xtream login, so the same four values configure every screen in the house.

Live television, which is the whole point and the thing streaming platforms do not sell. Channels play as they air, with a programme guide, sport as it happens and news as it breaks. There is a catalogue of 120,000+ films and box sets alongside it, but the live side is what makes this a replacement rather than another thing to add.

Those stay where they are, legitimately. A platform's own productions are exclusive to it and nothing here changes that. If your household genuinely watches one, keep that subscription — one platform plus this is still far cheaper than four, and telling you otherwise would only cost us a refund in week two.

Whatever your tier allows, and it is the only thing the tiers change. Install the player on every screen you own; the limit is on simultaneous playback, not installations. A household where two people regularly watch different things at the same time wants the two-screen tier, and it is worth getting that right at the start.

Included as standard on every plan, with no separate pass and no per-event charge. The NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, Premier League, Champions League, UFC and boxing pay-per-view all have dedicated channels. For most households this single line is where the arithmetic stops being close.

Roughly 10 Mbps for HD and 25 for 4K, which is what your streaming platforms already need. Consistency matters more than the headline figure, because streams break on gaps rather than averages. If the platforms you pay for work reliably in your house today, this will too.

You have 7 days. If it does not do what you expected and support cannot resolve it, say so inside that window and the money comes back in full. The refund page sets out what is and is not covered, in plain terms, before you buy rather than after — which is more than most subscriptions in this category manage.

Neither, and this is worth comparing against what you currently pay. Nothing renews by itself here: when a term ends you get a message and you decide. No card is stored, so nothing can be charged without you. Every platform in your current stack works the opposite way, which is partly how the total got where it is.

Because the platforms are funding original productions and marketing budgets, and we are not. What you get here is distribution rather than commissioning. That is an honest description of the difference, and it is also the reason the platform originals stay on the platforms — nobody can sell you those for fifteen dollars.

One month is $15. Longer terms bring the rate down: $29 for three months, $45 for six, and $69 for twelve, which is about $5.75 a month. The table above adds the columns for two, three and five screens playing at once.

Most households running four services are somewhere past $60 a month before a sports pass. A year here is $69, which is roughly one month of a full stack. We would rather you checked your own statement than took our figure for it — the exact numbers vary and the direction does not.

Take a month first. It costs about $54 more across a year and what it buys is the right to change your mind after four weeks having risked $15. Work out during that month which of your existing subscriptions you actually stopped opening, then commit. We would rather say that than sell you a year you regret.

Twelve months is $69 for one screen, $119 for two, $159 for three and $239 for five. Every one carries the identical 25,000+ channels and 120,000+ on-demand titles. You are buying simultaneous screens and nothing else — a provider whose dearer plan adds content has built the tier to confuse you.

None. No activation fee, no per-device fee, nothing that renews on its own. The figure on the page is the figure you pay. Worth asking of anything you subscribe to, incidentally, since introductory pricing that quietly becomes standard pricing is how most entertainment bills grow without anyone deciding.

The options are set out in the WhatsApp conversation, because what works varies considerably by country. One rule whoever you are buying from: never type full card details into a chat window. If a seller asks you to, that on its own tells you enough about them.

Yes, at any point. Message us and the line moves up a tier, charged only on the difference across the time remaining rather than restarting your term. Your credentials keep working unchanged, so nothing on any device needs touching.

Because bandwidth, servers and people have a cost floor, and a year sold for $20 is under it. Something funds that gap — capacity sold several times over, absent support, or an operator who will not be trading by spring. We are not the cheapest available and would rather explain the price than disguise it.

A username, a password, a server address and an M3U link, in the same chat, normally inside fifteen minutes of the payment clearing. Install a player on whatever you own, enter those once, and the channel list builds itself. Tell us the device and we will point you at the exact walkthrough.

Almost certainly not, since whatever runs your current streaming apps runs this. If you do want something, a Fire TV Stick at $30 to $50 covers nearly every case. Formuler and MAG boxes at $120 to $180 are worth it on a main television watched daily and hard to justify elsewhere.

It covers the service not working on your equipment where support cannot fix it, and the case where it plainly covers less than this site described. It does not cover changing your mind after a fortnight of watching happily. Better said here than discovered at the moment you ask.

No. Where a genuine 4K feed exists it is open on every plan with no surcharge and no premium tier. Those feeds sit beside HD copies of the same channels, which matters on a busy evening: there is a step down rather than a frozen picture.

On an evening you would normally be watching something, with your existing subscriptions still running. The comparison that decides this is not feature lists — it is noticing that you reached for one thing and not the other. A weekday lunchtime tells you the credentials work and nothing else.

A message, and then your decision. Nothing charges automatically because nothing is stored. If you want to stop, do nothing at all and it lapses. That is deliberately the opposite of how the subscriptions you are comparing this against behave.

Yes, and that is the intended way to do it. Nothing here touches anything else you pay for. Run them side by side for a day, notice which one you actually reach for in the evening, and make the decision from that rather than from anybody's marketing, ours included.

No. It carries everything a paid account does: all 25,000+ channels, the full on-demand catalogue, the programme guide and the 4K feeds, for 24 hours. A trimmed version would be useless for the only purpose it has, which is letting you judge whether this genuinely replaces something.

No card, no billing information and nothing to remember to cancel. It is arranged over WhatsApp or the form on this page, runs for 24 hours and stops by itself. It cannot roll into a paid plan, because there is nothing on file that could be charged.

Usually a few minutes. Trials are issued by hand in the conversation rather than by an automated system, which is marginally slower at four in the morning and means the same person can help you get the player running while you are already talking to them.

Three things. Whether the live channels and sport you want are there, since that is the category nothing else sells you. How much of your catalogue viewing turns out to be available here too. And whether anything you pay for separately went untouched for the whole evening — that last one is usually the most revealing.

Generally one per household, because it exists to answer a question rather than to supply free television. If the first attempt was genuinely wasted — a quiet night with nothing on, or a device that turned out to be the obstacle — say so and we will usually extend it rather than argue about it.

Almost certainly not. Anything running your current streaming apps will run this: a smart television from 2016 onward, a Fire TV Stick, an Android box, an Apple TV, a phone or a laptop. The account is a standard Xtream login, so four values configure every screen in the house and the second one takes two minutes.

IPTV Smarters Pro to start with — free, on every platform, and asks almost nothing of you. Move to TiViMate on Android hardware if you find yourself living in the programme guide, which people who watch live sport usually do. On a Samsung or LG with nothing plugged in, your options are IPTV Smarters or Smart IPTV from the set's own store.

Similar in shape rather than identical. You get a channel grid and a guide instead of rows of tiles, because this is live television rather than a catalogue. The on-demand section looks more like what you are used to. Neither is as polished as a major platform's interface, and pretending otherwise would be silly.

Only if the one you have was already struggling. A Fire TV Stick 4K Max at under $50 covers nearly every case. An Nvidia Shield is faster and costs more than a year of subscription. A Formuler Z11 at $120 to $180 earns its place on a main television watched daily. If your streaming apps run smoothly today, nothing needs replacing.

Between thirty and fifty, and that is normal rather than disappointing. The account lists 25,000+ live channels and 120,000+ on-demand titles; in practice every household builds a favourites row and lives in it. Judge this on whether your thirty are present, not on the headline figure, which is the number every provider in this market competes to inflate.

That depends on your tier and it is the only thing the tiers control. Install the player on every screen you own; the limit is on simultaneous playback. A household where two people routinely watch different things at the same time wants the two-screen plan, which is still well under what a single platform charges for a family tier.

The technology is, without qualification — it is how Hulu, YouTube TV and Sling deliver television, and how every large telecoms company operates. The question that carries weight is whether a given provider holds distribution rights for what it carries, which is about companies rather than about protocols. Our article on legality separates the two properly.

Commercially, a great deal. The platforms license and commission their own content and are unambiguous about their rights. Services in this market generally resell upstream streaming capacity, and the chain is not always visible even to the reseller. We would rather state that plainly than let you assume the two are equivalent, because they are not.

In the UK and parts of the EU some providers block specific servers during football fixtures under court orders. Several routes and independent DNS mitigate it; a VPN sidesteps it entirely. American providers are not currently doing this. Nobody can promise it will never happen, and a seller who does is telling you something about themselves.

In the United States enforcement concentrates on operators and sellers; individual viewers are rarely pursued. In the UK and the EU, viewers have received warning letters and, in a small number of cases, fines. That is the accurate picture rather than a reassuring one. Read the legality guide and weigh it yourself.

Yes. You buy credits at wholesale, get a panel that issues lines in seconds, and sell under your own name at whatever price you set. What you should think hardest about before buying a pack is not the margin, which is straightforward, but the support load, which is not — every customer becomes yours rather than ours.

Send the word reseller on WhatsApp. We go through the credit packs, hand over panel access the same day, and include a starter guide on pricing and looking after customers. We will also say plainly if we think the market you have in mind is not worth the effort, which a rate card never will.

The one on this site: households are paying four bills to watch television and nobody chose that. It is an easier conversation than arguing about channel counts, because the person you are talking to has already had the thought — they just have not done the arithmetic yet.