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Well as the new English and Scottish Premier League season is upon us allot of questions are being asked about the actual quality of the IPTV streaming and will it be close to HD satellite viewing for the EPL and SPL.
One of the main things you must take into consideration with IPTV Streaming is the cost, while we all want something for nothing in today's climate, this might pan out to be a mistake... Lets say we pay £50 for a whole season of EPL football and the providers give a sample iptv stream for you to test out...
If you was that provider would you not make the test iptv stream the best bandwidth for the potential customer? And remember you will only be looking at the stream for a few minutes to sample the quality.
I am also not saying that low cost IPTV streaming is going to be bad, but I would expect quality to be affected somewhere along the line. bandwidth is quite cheap nowadays so low cost IPTV streams could be a worthy option and when on a tight budget there is only one way to find out. Make sure you read the terms and conditions as a good iptv provider will refund you the difference if your service is poor.
Also you must take into consideration other factors like your broadband connection as I doubt you would want to pay for a monthly/annual sub and you have a dial modem @ 56k, even 1mb connection would be pushing it when streaming over iptv, the better your broadband the better IPTV feed you will have!
One way to go is word of mouth, we have allot of members here on digitalworldz that are using iptv satellite feed providers, and will be more than willing to point you to a good IPTV server that they are using, and over time as IPTV gets more popular we will be able to recommend more IPTV EPL providers.
The quality on IPTV will be dependant on bandwidth allocation to each slot (your viewing slot), remember football is also fast moving at times, and a bad IPTV stream will look like those all too familiar browser streams we have seen in the past and will get worse the bigger the television you are watching it on. Allot of providers are promoting HD like IPTV streams, and I am sure they will be... as we have actually seen some CRACKING streams in the past... but the english and scottish premier leagues are starting today! and we will soon know which streaming providers are the real deal or not!
Lastly as you are aware this is probably the latest way to watch football / soccer whatever you want to call it, at home for live 3pm kick off games, iptv streaming in it's infancy will take time to weed out the good from the bad! So if you can wait... why not wait a few games in and see what our members are saying about each providers before you depart with your hard earned cash.
Also worth noting is that most of the streams are located abroad and you will need to mask your DNS as it will be geolocked to a specific country (we are not discussing the legalities in this article) just making you aware that this will need to be factored into your budget.
Remember check out our forums here
DIGITALWORLDZ IPTV Streaming Discussion Forums
Hope this helps, and as always feel free to discuss as much as you like... please wrap links to providers in code tags
Regards
Mick
One of the main things you must take into consideration with IPTV Streaming is the cost, while we all want something for nothing in today's climate, this might pan out to be a mistake... Lets say we pay £50 for a whole season of EPL football and the providers give a sample iptv stream for you to test out...
If you was that provider would you not make the test iptv stream the best bandwidth for the potential customer? And remember you will only be looking at the stream for a few minutes to sample the quality.
I am also not saying that low cost IPTV streaming is going to be bad, but I would expect quality to be affected somewhere along the line. bandwidth is quite cheap nowadays so low cost IPTV streams could be a worthy option and when on a tight budget there is only one way to find out. Make sure you read the terms and conditions as a good iptv provider will refund you the difference if your service is poor.
Also you must take into consideration other factors like your broadband connection as I doubt you would want to pay for a monthly/annual sub and you have a dial modem @ 56k, even 1mb connection would be pushing it when streaming over iptv, the better your broadband the better IPTV feed you will have!
One way to go is word of mouth, we have allot of members here on digitalworldz that are using iptv satellite feed providers, and will be more than willing to point you to a good IPTV server that they are using, and over time as IPTV gets more popular we will be able to recommend more IPTV EPL providers.
The quality on IPTV will be dependant on bandwidth allocation to each slot (your viewing slot), remember football is also fast moving at times, and a bad IPTV stream will look like those all too familiar browser streams we have seen in the past and will get worse the bigger the television you are watching it on. Allot of providers are promoting HD like IPTV streams, and I am sure they will be... as we have actually seen some CRACKING streams in the past... but the english and scottish premier leagues are starting today! and we will soon know which streaming providers are the real deal or not!
Lastly as you are aware this is probably the latest way to watch football / soccer whatever you want to call it, at home for live 3pm kick off games, iptv streaming in it's infancy will take time to weed out the good from the bad! So if you can wait... why not wait a few games in and see what our members are saying about each providers before you depart with your hard earned cash.
Also worth noting is that most of the streams are located abroad and you will need to mask your DNS as it will be geolocked to a specific country (we are not discussing the legalities in this article) just making you aware that this will need to be factored into your budget.
Remember check out our forums here
DIGITALWORLDZ IPTV Streaming Discussion Forums
Hope this helps, and as always feel free to discuss as much as you like... please wrap links to providers in code tags
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