I posted to my Facebook Page that the Canadian Football pre-season for the CFL (Canadian Football League) begins on May 26. You can watch CFL games on TSN (the sports network) or Sportsnet. IPTV service/subscription — just google it and research it yourself of course — is the best way, but you might not know that you have access to TSN or Sportsnet in whatever package for TV viewing you have, so you should check first.

(IPTV runs on different devices and the service you choose and its experience usually depends on whatever device you prefer — I think that is the key to being happy with IPTV. Mag, Android, web, LG Smart TV, Samsung Smart TV, Android, Android 4K, all 4K, Kodi, and of course Apple TV and Apple 4k, but NOT (and this is seriously sad) Roku, not Roku — so don’t get a Roku thinking you’ll see IPTV on it — are all devices you can use to watch on.

You need to download an app for most devices which will allow you to input the sign-in information (all of whatever it is) as per each different device. Some android services only run on apk download apps, for instance. I haven’t seen KODI or Mag or Smart TV’s working.

Android devices and Apple TV though, run on several different apps, the most principle being GSE PRO APP, Smarters APP, or NORA GO.

Many people just use their internet browser to watch TV on their computers; I have only tried it once or twice and I found the experience lacking, but I don’t think that’s typical, I think many people would find that delightful. There isn’t a lot to doing that, you simply have to ask your IPTV service subscription/provider, whoever he or she is, for online string.

A Mag device requires a MAC address in order to release the sign-in information to the customer; so the customer has to get the MAC address off his device.

Android and 4K will use those principle apps noted above. And you have to be secure in understanding that you will need an m3u link and/or a portal link (:PORT) to sign-in to your account after you pay for it. And m3u link looks like this about ~ https://serviceprovider.iptv.com:9999/get.php?username=whateverusernameassigned&password=whateverpasswordassigned&type=m3u_plus&output=ts … there are variables in that equation, but that’s the standard look of the equation.

The output might be a different equal, but there are about only 3 to choose from and they give it to you and the type might just be m3u and the :PORT number is going to be whatever 4 digits it is and so is the section before those numbers, as well as the https:// or http:// … for the most part that’s it.

This m3u is entered into the “Remote Playlist” section of apps generally and it’s the “m3u link.”

The Portal link (:PORT) is entered in an Xtreme Code API section (as seen in the GSE APP) or else in the front of the sign-in page in the Smarter’s types of apps.

You would enter in, for example, on that same link ~ https://serviceprovider.iptv.com:9999 for the :PORT request in the designated section of each app and then your username and password as assigned to you after you pay.

You want to make sure to update your EPG list everyday in the settings of either app. On GSE they let you do it on the start page before you go into your channels, for each provider you choose.

(You can load more than one provider on GSE; but on Smarters and many other m3u apps, you cannot enter in more than one provider. Be aware of that before you go nuts trying to figure it out that some apps will only accept a single provider at a time and a few other apps will allow for multiple providers. Also, you will have to pay for some apps and some apps are free. This depends on the play store and not your provider, although the provider might only run his service on a particular app; that is generally not the case. And not all providers use those two (Smarters and GSE) so just be aware of the settings being different in different apps. Anyway, most apps will not cost you more than $5.00 and probably less. And many are just free and if your provider doesn’t specify an app, he might ask you what you are thinking of using or else, suggest one or else demand one, because that’s all he plays to, or else you’re on your own to find it after you pay.)

Moving on.  The EPG list is the TV Guide.

If the TV Guide doesn’t update every day and sometimes you want to “force an update”, which just means, updating manually, more than once a day, ….

If the TV Guide (which is the EPG) for each and every provider individually mind you, does not update at least every day, whether your provider knows or not, you will not be able to see  your channels for too long and your provider won’t be able to do much about it.

(Also make sure that your device’s WIFI, if you are on WIFI is on on your device or you will surely watch your channels spinning and not know why — this will happen on some 4k android’s which are moody.)

The EPG update might be done in the settings, as in the Smarter’s and android type apps, you might have them turned on for automatic daily updates (which doesn’t always fit the demand for the channels to refresh), or they (the updates) are on the provider’s landing page as on the GSE PRO APP.

Now back to the EPG list. Not every provider handles his TV Guide the same and the TV Guides do not react or look the same from device to device and from app to app. This is a little bit upsetting for individual navigation — it’s something you have to study on your own.

IPTV is a very young legitimate TV service. It has been in the works for decades and in development alongside of internet based devices and internet TV for that long, but it only recently, in the last 5 years, has become the Goliath tool that it has to cord-cutters and alternative viewing. In which case, the small dragon is still in research and development and lacks the advertisable graces and sophistications of regular cable & satellite and dish TVs — which I must add, in my opinion, lack the versatility and imagination of the IPTV delivery when it is being used with the proper attitude for its technological limitations in the times of its release.

(In other words, though IPTV has always been legal, the legislation for it, doesn’t include at this time, all the technological improvements that you otherwise rarely notice on giant providers in the mainstream. You can believe these to be worldwide torrentz like channels, being streamed to anyone who will pay, in the open, for the sake of television expansion and a worldwide television share experience.)

You have to be patient and try to understand why and why not anything that might happen with your service, because though most every provider has some form of customer service, there is no giant company, backed by a regulations committee well-known to it (I mean, they are in compliance with regulations committees, that’s all), who can tell you ask these questions and no more.

The poor IPTV industry tries to solicit the limitations of questions to its providers at point of sale and hopes that that will make the service of the service as intended to be a real experience for provider to user, with all legal questions meriting about usage and though that is all. Whereas, in the the open carriage of telecommunications services, the customer can question the industry all he wants; doing that with IPTV, shuts down the capacity to run and obtain IPTV. And that the limitations of asking are only for the developers and the number of questions to ask concern only the service and that is a typically agreed thing — not why do I hate my IPTV because it is lacking in tech and research definition.

That’s all there is. So to expand again, once more — there are only so many questions you might be able to ask about your service; and therefore, questions regarding expansions of trades and specifications of legislatable technologies, which are terms of things that occur to every customer to ask at some point when critical advertising rules aren’t being met, aren’t customer service questions legal, by and large to the service and sale of the product; this is because the advertisable terms of the services in IPTV are limited and legal in their distribution to their point of sale distribution, to whatever is stated and no more.

The hierarchies of concerns in the IPTV stream realm, belong and concern only the developer groups of the industry and are not open to the customer to rely on askance; this upsets many persons and so it might not be everybody’s cord-cutting solution; but with patience and realization of all these facts, it’s still a worthy domain for trial.

Let me expand it to the end of my doubts ~ because in the open telecommunications industry, without performance advertised or promised, everyone can question the system, but in this case, you can’t, because the system is set to limitations and the ordinary promises we are used to knowing in the finished product, do not apply by the terms of advertising (to the IPTV). The industry has customary legislated backing worldwide and that is true to the end of avoiding abuses of transferring the channel lists and abuses of commerce and and the abuses of viewing, but as for the upgraded advertised delivery, there are no places for the customer to demand; that is the developer’s right now.

So also, you cannot request refunds for any of your IPTV services generally once you’ve purchased them on all those terms, unless the sale is completely without purpose of its order; it never was an order as promised on either side of the sale to the condition of being either/or or both sides.

Let’s move on some more.

Rates generally average for more excellent TV delivery and choices than the ordinary, though, from $5.00/mo to $30/mo and no more. Some providers now are charging even up to $45, but that is a very wide end deal. The average is $20/mo for the complete service. Every service is made point of sale with explanations at the register online — either on the providers website or through a third-party vendor such as Ebay.

Many services sell through the sale of their own devices for usage — but these are actually fewer providers than the vast majority and it’s better that you buy your own device and choose your own service. The most typical commitment is month to month, the most typical alternative commitment is year to year and everything is pre-paid for the duration. Customer service deals vary and they are always there once you have connected to your provider. No one has any obligation to anyone besides the service contract. It is usually an amazing choice of delivered channels which work.

What else should I say? Using your device and signing in is the toughest part of the IPTV. The other drawback is having no DVR capability anywhere in the industry in this time that is open to the public to know and obtain.

I suppose and I have supposed that there are developers who can attach a Buffalo Storage Box or a Western Digital Storage Box with about 4TB to it to a mini-pc and then attach the mini-pc/storage box combo into the hdmi of the TV and find a way to use a SATA router to connect the 2 situations (pc/storage to tv streaming) to recognition of each other — but that still seems like an impossible dream to me, because I can’t understand why a router will recognize the direction of the stream to the storage box through the mini pc without a designed agreement with the player server on the 4k box accepting it. Maybe that’s the entire point of the innovation, which doesn’t exist. I also forgot to connect the 4k box or mag or device to the minipc/storage box. I might have all this wrong. So there is no DVR and that is largest upset on the novelty of it. Everyone has their own drawbacks on it after that and it is usually the visual of the EPG (TV Guide) which needs improvement, app player to app player. The app player industry in IPTV needs a great deal more of innovation and research I feel.

Well, happy sports viewing on IPTV all over the world!

It was this article here posted though that made me think of all this today for my blog.

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