| ▲ | nvme0n1p1 4 hours ago |
| OTOH - TV, radio, and YouTube are all unlimited and free. Why not streaming? There are lots of people alive who grew up during the days of broadcast TV and radio. I get why they might not understand the difference. |
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| ▲ | weberer 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| There are a ton of legitimately free IPTV streams. You can watch them through most media players like VLC without having to download anything shady. https://github.com/iptv-org/iptv |
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| ▲ | nvme0n1p1 40 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Ok but have fun explaining that to the average person. Buying a dongle is easier than installing software or typing URLs into their TV ("my TV doesn't even have a keyboard"). To most people IPTV is a bunch of gibberish letters, indistinguishable from the gibberish brands on Amazon. Someone's grandma from Colorado doesn't deserve to get scammed because she didn't research the acronyms. | |
| ▲ | kube-system 9 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | That is chock-full of pirated content. | |
| ▲ | nuxi an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Two things: - How are these "legitimately free"? For example AMC is a commercial TV channel and as far as I know, they don't offer free streaming. Same goes for MGM, FilmBox etc. - Strictly speaking this isn't IPTV, it's just web streams. IPTV is usually delivered via multicast (MPEG-TS/RTP/RTSP streams, over UDP mostly). | | |
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| ▲ | bluedino an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Most people who buy these want to watch free movies, sports streams, etc that aren't on OTA or free services |
