What the money buys
What your payment includes, in full
Sellers advertise a channel count because a number is cheap to print and impossible for a buyer to audit. This page does the opposite job: it sets out what the payment actually opens, category by category and country by country, with the thin parts pointed out rather than hidden.
The plan you pick changes how many screens play at once and nothing else — 28,000+ live channels and 300,000+ on-demand films and episodes are identical on all three. Live television is filed under eight headings, from sport through to a dedicated Ultra HD group, and filed again by country: the six English-speaking markets plus roughly a hundred more. Listings run about a week ahead and catch-up covers the larger channels. Nothing here generates a second invoice — it is all inside the $69 yearly figure.
Buying on the headline number is how people end up disappointed
Twenty-eight thousand is a marketing figure, and marketing figures are built to impress rather than to be examined. Three standard techniques do most of the inflating across this market. One feed listed separately at each quality level counts four times over. A national channel that exists in a dozen regional versions arrives as a dozen distinct lines. And blocks of foreign-language feeds get appended for weight, in the knowledge that hardly anyone paying in English will open them.
Treat that as a disclosure rather than an accusation pointed elsewhere: this list is assembled the same way as every other list on sale. The answer is not to swap one number for a smaller, more virtuous number. It is to stop pricing the decision on the total at all. Three questions determine whether what you are about to buy is worth the money, and the size of the list is not among them:
- Is your own country block complete? Nationals are the easy part. Look for the digital offshoots, the regional opt-out and the local bulletin.
- Is your sport live, at the figure on the page? Padding shows up here first, and it is where a hidden upgrade tier usually lives.
- Are the listings populated? Guide data is what makes a purchase this size navigable. Without it you have bought a wall of names.
Answering all three is unglamorous work. Take the dozen channels you would genuinely miss, read them against the categories below, then send that dozen to the desk and get written confirmation before paying. It settles the matter far more honestly than any paragraph composed by the party receiving the money.
Category by category, what the payment covers
Eight live categories, each included whole, on all three plans. The counts move a little week to week as feeds come and go — the shape does not.
The category most sellers carve out and bill for a second time. It sits inside the single yearly figure here: match nights at home and abroad, the events normally sold one card at a time, and no tier sitting above the one you bought.
Genre-sorted film channels that never stop running, and beside them a shelf that starts when you do rather than when a schedule says so. Weekly additions, a healthy share of them Ultra HD, and no per-title rental at any point in the year.
Whole seasons stacked in order for the people who watch that way, next to the dramas currently being discussed at work. Episodes join the rows through the season, so nothing has to be bought one at a time.
The part of the list a parent can hand over without standing behind the sofa — cartoon and pre-school feeds, a family film shelf, and enough of it that the teatime argument over the tablet mostly stops.
Coverage that runs whether or not anything is happening, with the regional bulletins and opt-outs carried, so what comes up is the market you live in rather than a national feed made for somebody four hundred miles away.
Where a yearly payment quietly earns itself back: wildlife, science, history and true crime as live channels, plus thousands of on-demand titles that take a good deal longer than twelve months to exhaust.
Channels for the hours when the television is really a radio — charts through to classical, recorded concerts, and genre streams that simply run without anyone choosing anything.
Several hundred channels delivered at genuine Ultra HD, plus a large share of the on-demand shelf. Stated precisely because standard definition upscaled and relabelled is one of the more common things buyers in this market pay for by accident.
Buy a list this size with no listings attached and what you have actually bought is a search problem. The electronic programme guide is what converts a column of names into something a household can sit down in front of, and it arrives with the subscription rather than as a line item on top of it.
What you get from the guide
Every live channel carries its schedule: on now, on next, and roughly a week of what follows, with titles, start and finish times and a line of description. Player apps draw it as a grid — sideways through time, downwards through channels — which is the same movement as any set-top remote. The one difference is that this grid spans every country block your payment opened, instead of the bundle a salesperson assembled for you.
The daily use for it is mundane and constant. Working out when an event genuinely starts in your own time zone. Setting a reminder where the app supports one. Spotting which of four feeds showing the same fixture has the build-up rather than a studio. It is also how you find something you had no idea was on, which remains the one thing live television still does better than a menu of thumbnails.
Time zones, and the mistake almost everyone makes
Listings render against your device clock. That is correct behaviour, though it catches people out when a channel from another country shows its schedule shifted into local time. When every listing is out by the same number of hours, the culprit is a time-zone or offset setting inside the app rather than anything you paid for. Half a minute to put right, and the desk will do it with you on whichever app you installed.
Catch-up
Wind the guide backwards, land on last night, press play. On the channels that carry it there is nothing more to it than that, and the reach is a rolling few days — Monday evening is still recoverable on Wednesday. It is not an archive, and nobody should hand over money expecting one.
Coverage is partial, and better said before the payment than after. The flagship nationals and the main subscription channels generally carry it; niche feeds and much of the international list do not. The player app matters too, since some handle it neatly and others make a mess of it. If catch-up is what you are paying for, say so in the first message and you will be pointed at an app that does it properly.
Underneath the categories runs a second arrangement: by country, with one payment opening all of it behind one login. No region is selected at the point of sale, no regional price unlocks a different set, and no block is held back for a bigger plan. It explains why so much of the subscriber base has moved countries at some point — the Australian block and the Irish block live in the same place, so nobody in the house has to trade one for the other.
United States
The American shelf opens as one block: nationals, the local affiliates carrying your own market news and weather, business and general entertainment, the sport networks, the film channels, and a long tail of lifestyle, home-shopping and faith feeds. Several hundred entries stand behind that sentence before the market-by-market duplicates are counted at all.
United Kingdom
Terrestrial families and their digital offshoots, subscription film and sport, news running through the night, and the free-to-air entertainment tier. Regional variants are carried rather than collapsed, so a household in Scotland or Northern Ireland lands on the correct opt-out instead of the version produced for London.
Ireland
Domestic broadcasters with their second channels, the Irish-language service, and the feeds carrying home competition — then the entire British block sitting beside them for no separate charge. Irish households already watch across both, so pricing them apart would be an invented distinction.
Australia & New Zealand
Free-to-air networks and their multichannels, the subscription sport and film tier, state-by-state news variants, and the New Zealand nationals kept as a block of their own. It pays off in both directions: for the household that arrived from elsewhere, and for the one that left and wants its old television back.
Canada
English-language nationals, the specialty entertainment and sport channels, provincial news, and the French-language services for the homes that want them. Because the American block sits immediately alongside, most of what a Canadian package treats as a paid supplement is simply already on the shelf.
The rest of the world
Another twenty thousand or so, filed by country across Europe, the Middle East, South Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Pacific. For one household this is the entire reason the payment gets made; for the next it is wallpaper. The figure charged is identical either way.
No provider anywhere keeps a static list. Feeds appear, vanish and get reshuffled continuously, so an itemised roll of 28,000 names would be wrong within days of publication and a poor basis for spending money. Where one particular channel decides whether you pay or not, ask us directly and you will get a yes or a no about today.
Three things the price does not buy
Said plainly and near the top, because a page listing only strengths is an advert wearing the clothes of a guide.
Spending more buys screens. It does not buy content.
Whichever figure you settle on, the library behind the login is the same library. There is no sport bolt-on waiting behind a second payment, no channel pack to bolt on later, no nudge to upgrade in month six — and no stored card sitting somewhere with a date pencilled against it.
- 28,000+ live channels spanning the US, UK, Ireland, Australia and beyond
- 300,000+ films and full box sets, with new material weekly
- Live sport and the pay-per-view nights, without a further charge
- Genuine 4K alongside Full HD and HD — no SD dressed up as more
- A working guide, plus catch-up across the bigger channels
- Servers tuned against buffering, measured at 99.9% uptime
- Fire TV Stick, Apple TV, Smart TVs, Android, iPhone, Mac, PC
- Your login arrives minutes behind the cleared payment
- A single annual charge — nothing is ever pulled automatically
- Refund terms written down and readable before you commit
The payment is the last thing you buy
Whatever screens are already in the house will do — the Smart TV, the Firestick behind it, an Apple TV, a phone, a tablet, the laptop on the kitchen table. Sign in on every one of them if you want; the tier limits simultaneous playback, never the number of installs. Nothing is rented to you, no hardware appears on the bill, and no deposit is taken.
What buyers ask before paying
Three exchanges in a chat window. That is the whole process.
Nobody visits, nothing is signed, and no long number of yours gets typed into a form on this website. You tell the desk what you need, settle it on a rail of your choosing, and the credentials come back down the same thread you started in.
Interrogate us before you spend a penny
Nothing about this is meant to be a leap of faith. Open a chat and put the awkward questions first: what exactly the plan carries, which rails we settle on, how long the wait is once the money clears, and what recourse you have on the day something breaks. Whichever of these two apps is already installed will do.
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Choose a tier, hand it over on a rail that leaves you a record, and read your login in the chat a few minutes afterwards. Cards, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, crypto — and the second it clears, nothing belonging to you is retained.
- The figure is on the page before anything is asked of you
- One charge a year, never lifted automatically
- Cards, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay or crypto
- Credentials land minutes behind the cleared funds
- 28,000+ live channels, 300,000+ on demand
- Live sport and title fights carry no surcharge
- Up to 4K on Firestick, Smart TV, Apple TV and phones
- A named human to chase the day something stops
≈ $5.75/mo · charged once · it simply lapses unless you decide otherwise
Keep reading
The published prices
Three yearly figures, one payment each, identical content on all three — and the same number quoted back to you next year.
See pricing →Getting it running
Device by device, the speed your line needs, and the buffering fix that works nine times out of ten.
Read the setup guide →Everything else
Payment, devices, ordering, support and the legal position, answered in short paragraphs.
Read the FAQ →What you pay where
The figure in the US, UK, Ireland, Australia, Canada and New Zealand, set beside the local bill.
Compare by country →Before you pay anyone
Lifetime offers, padded counts and the renewal trap — what to check on any seller taking your money.
See the warning signs →What buyers report
The praise that repeats, the complaints that repeat, and how the feedback reaches us in the first place.
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