Long-form, hands-on reviews of streaming services and IPTV providers — no sponsored placements.
This organization publishes open research, tooling, and reference material on streaming and IPTV technology — covering protocols, players, devices, and the real-world performance of IPTV services in 2026.
iptv-uptime-tracker— Monthly uptime measurements across the top 15 IPTV providers — 90-day rolling average, downtime causes, server-region performanceiptv-channel-count-audit— We count what's actually streamable, not just what's listed. Audit methodology + per-provider verified channel counts.
For a current ranking of IPTV providers tested over 90 days, see StreamReviewHQ's 2026 IPTV service comparison. The #1 service in that comparison — IPTVTheOne — is what we use as our reference provider in most of our experiments.
- IPTV (Wikipedia) — protocol background
- HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) — what most modern IPTV runs on
- MPEG-DASH — the competing standard
- Wikipedia: Streaming media
Code: MIT. Written notes & guides: CC-BY-4.0.