How to watch IPTV on your home TV

When we talk about IPTV or IPTV lists the reference is to illegal lists, i.e. their use to watch “bits” and Sky channels by paying very few euros (much less than the real Sky subscription).

Going beyond the illegal aspect (which fuels the pirated TV market), IPTV technology actually represents the future of television and even if there are few suppliers and few legal IPTV offers, it is very likely that all of us have already used them.

In the following guide we will show you how IPTV works e how to watch IPTV on TVwith our favorite channels managed through a convenient legal and authorized IPTV list.

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1) Meaning of IPTV

IPTV stands for “Internet Protocol Television“, so we can talk about television channels transmitted via IP, IP address and then via the Internet.

With cable or satellite TV, broadcasters send signals and viewers receive them and you can only watch what’s being broadcast, so unless you have a recording device, you can’t stop video playback or go back . IPTV is different: instead of transmitting content via radio waves or satellite, it sends television broadcasts and films via the standard Internet connection, therefore using the normal connection via telephone line, via optical fiber or via data network connection.

Most modern TVs support IPTV via dedicated appseven if many manufacturers have removed various themed apps over time (at the request of service providers such as Sky and DAZN): in any case we can always use IPTVs by installing them as apps on an external device (such as the Fire TV Stick).

2) How an IPTV works

As things currently stand, there are three different IPTV formats, as described below:

• Video on Demand (VOD): VOD streaming allows you to choose the video you want to watch, without having to worry about times. Netflix and Amazon Prime Video are examples of VOD services, as are others siti con film on demand and free sites like RaiPlay.
• Live IPTV: Live streaming TV channels that work like traditional TV, where you can’t go back or choose what to watch. Examples of this type are platforms such as DAZN oppure i free online channels like the RAI or i channels Mediaset channels.
• Hybrid interactive IPTV services: this is the most revolutionary and innovative type of IPTV, the one that allows you to watch live broadcasts and also video on demand without having to worry about missing the episode of your favorite television show. We invite you to read the guide on this technology HbbTV.

Sky includes its interactive IPTV, with the ability to watch a channel, record another, pause, open popular streaming apps and so on.

3) Illegal IPTV?

Illegal Pay TV resellers simply use regular decoders to receive videos from subscription platforms and then, through their servers, redistribute them via the internet by encoding the decoder signal, in real time.

Excluding this illegal behaviorwe can still always use IPTV by using HbbTV on our modern television or by installing IPTV apps on the Smart TV or compatible external devices.

4) Problems with the “piece”

Pirate IPTVs, however, are not a good idea at all. For starters, there is the risk of being criminally prosecuted. Even if it seems really unrealistic to think that the thousands of IPTV users could be prosecuted, the authorities are absolutely capable of recognizing and catching those who use them.

The main problem with pirated IPTVs is related to their unreliabilitybecause the links to the streaming TV channels change constantly and are sometimes closed and deactivated after a few hours, perhaps even while you are watching something.

Worse still are the illegal paid services, which have prices between 5 Euros and 15 Euros per month, without any regulation and assurance that the service can work. Furthermore, by sending payments, you are also registered with the consequent risk of being criminally prosecuted and fined.

5) Try IPTV legally

To get a taste of the IPTV of the future, let’s get one Smart TV with HbbTV supportlet’s go to the settings menu and activate the item HbbTV and let’s move on to the HD digital terrestrial channels (501 or later channels).

If the television is connected to the home modem (via Wi-Fi or Ethernet) after a few minutes we will see a colored icon appear in the lower right or lower left corner, indicating the colored button to press on the television to open the HbbTV hybrid mode.

We will see a new overlay menu appear, from which it is possible to choose the channel to view, start one of the on demand contents offered by RaiPlay or other platforms and (for some channels only) also go back to the live broadcast, so as to watch it again from the beginning delayed.

This system is in all respects an IPTVeven if in hybrid mode: the basic signal always arrives via the antenna but the interactive contents are provided via the Internet, without having to download the dedicated app on the television.

Install an IPTV on your TV

If we are not satisfied with HbbTV as a hybrid IPTV system we can always install the RaiPlay, Infinity Play, NOW and DAZN apps on our smart TV and disconnect the antenna cable: using the apps mentioned it is possible to watch practically all the main digital terrestrial channels, using only the Internet connection.

IPTV List

Users interested in installing an IPTV app to manage a list need only purchase one Fire TV Stick where he Chromecast con Google TV, choosing the model best suited to our needs. Once we have the Fire TV Stick we have two paths to follow:

• Through App2Firethe best app to “switch applications” from your phone to the Fire TV Stick, you can install the app on your Fire TV IPTV Extreme.
• Install the app Downloader on Fire TV and navigate the site through it https://www.iptvsmarters.com/smarters.apkso as to download the IPTV Smarters app onto your device.

On Chromecast with Google TV it is much easier to install an IPTV app, as the app is available from the Google Play Store IPTV Extreme.

For further information we can read the guide above how to load IPTV lists to watch on Smart TV, Android Box, Chromecast etc.V.

Conclusions

Waiting for that the transformation of traditional TV into IPTV is complete (for now it is only hybrid with HbbTV), it is still convenient to pay for a subscription service from one of the popular ones sites to watch movies in streaming or one of the online services for watch football in streaming.

Let’s forget about pirated services or IPTV lists of “bits and pieces” sold under the table or on social channels: sooner or later they will all be closed and we will run the risk of being heavily sanctioned.

On the same topic we can read the guide above how to use a VPN on Smart TV.