For the last 2 months, I’ve been reaching out to every single IPTV provider I could find online to compare their services. After trying out close to 30 services and ranking them in a spreadsheet, I was surprised by the huge gap in quality. At this point I started to get curious, I thought, “How good can it really get?”

Turns out it can get pretty good. Eventually I found a handful of providers with real stable, 4K (2160p) sports streams at 50fps with full PPV and F1 TV coverage. Obviously, they are a little more pricey at around $15 for a 1-month sub on average. But it’s worth every penny if you ask me.

I thought it would be cool to have some kind of public directory, or I could just share my spreadsheet, since this information is really hard to come by on the internet. But a directory grows stale over time if it’s not constantly updated. Also, there’s constant pricing changes, providers pop up and others disappear, lots of scammers to avoid, and people may have valuable additional info to contribute.

So I set up Open Supply and invited a bunch of the providers to post. There are only a few providers here currently, but the list will be growing. You can check out the IPTV Subs community here: https://lemmy.opensupply.space/c/iptv_subs

OR

Search for it: !iptv_subs@lemmy.opensupply.space

This took a lot of work to set up, if you happen to try out an IPTV service in this list, I only ask that you come back and leave an informative positive/negative review for other people who’ll come along in the future. Thanks!

Also, is it possible to get this community officially added to the megathread? I think this info is super valuable.

EDIT: For everyone asking for the spreadsheet to see the 4K providers, all the best 4K ones are already in the community, if they are not, they will be posting soon, just join the discord/telegram and ask them for a free 24hr trial and get streaming. Remember to leave a review after you try them out.

  • Burnt Toast@lemmy.opensupply.spaceOPEnglish
    28·
    10 months ago

    Just now realizing that not all the posts are showing up on this instance. I might be the only seeing this, or maybe I haven’t configured the federation settings properly? Does anyone know how I could get everything to sync?

    EDIT: They are now showing up for me (We are federated y’all!)

  • shoomba@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    24·
    10 months ago

    Are you willing to share the spreadsheet you have so far? Or maybe sticky it to your new community? It would be nice to have a way to verify/review the providers posting on the community provide what they claim.

    • JoeCoT@kbin.social
      591·
      10 months ago

      The spreadsheet of verified info on iptv providers would be far more useful than a lemmy community where random providers can post.

      • Burnt Toast@lemmy.opensupply.spaceOPEnglish
        68·
        10 months ago

        I understand why you think that might be the case, but I’ve set up the community such that you can’t create a post unless you are approved by an admin. Approval here means that your service needs to be vetted before you can post. The whole point is to find quality providers and share reviews, if we allow anyone to post, the community would be overrun by low effort spammers in no time.

        Also, see this comment on why I’m hesitant to share the spreadsheet.

    • Burnt Toast@lemmy.opensupply.spaceOPEnglish
      52·
      10 months ago

      I’m a little hesitant to post the spreadsheet, since most top-tier providers don’t want their information posted publicly. I reached out to each provider to ask them if they would be willing to have their service listed, what you see in the community are the providers who are comfortable posting publicly. A few more (about 6) will be posting soon, the rest have really poor quality (you can find these guys on the first page of google) and have been rejected from the community.

      The community also allows providers to post updates, subscribers can discuss and give feedback, which in turn helps other folks. I think building a good quality repository of community contributions will pay off long term.

      • lukas@lemmy.haigner.meEnglish
        72·
        10 months ago

        Reasons:

        • Because we’ve always done it that way.
        • Because others have always done it that way.
        • Because someone told them to.
        • Because they’ve got a Discord/Telegram account already.
        • Because they did their research, and their target market segment uses Discord/Telegram.

        Platform lock-in risk? What is that? Can you eat that?

    • KingIPTV@lemmy.opensupply.spaceEnglish
      6·
      10 months ago

      Hey there. There are tons of reasons to use IPTV other than sports. Speaking from the perspective of our server, we have a huge variety of channels from all your local news, to your favorite reality channels, and much more. Apart from the live channels we also have a video on demand section with over 100,000 pieces of content which is updated daily. All the content in our subscription is the content you would find on other services plus much more. If you have a device I highly recommend you get a free trial to check it out! Here is the invite to ours, King IPTV https://lemmy.opensupply.space/post/4

  • bobbyllama@kbin.social
    4·
    10 months ago

    i had a super stable provider for years that was shutdown by the fed and have been itching to find another US-based provider. hoping this new directory helps accomplish that!

  • scarrtt@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    The only way I have found to get reliable IPTV services is to post on local Facebook groups. There is invariably a few middle-aged guys who can’t spell properly and who can you “mate” who will know which service works best in your area and be resellers of said service. A few 24-hour trials and you can usually figure out what suits you best.