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IPTV for the UK — and the rest of the world's television

24,000+ live channels from 100+ countries and 140,000+ movies and series, in up to 4K UHD, on every screen you already own. Built for UK and international households. Set up in about 5 minutes for an effective $9.67 a month.

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A wall-mounted 4K television displaying a grid of live channels and on-demand titles from the DrexTV IPTV service, in a dark modern living room
24,000+
Live channels

From 100+ countries

140,000+
Movies & series

On demand, 4K and FHD

99.9%
Uptime target

14 edge locations

5 min
Setup time

60-second activation

  • 2019

    Independently operated since

  • 70,000+

    Households served

  • 14 edges

    On six continents

  • 24h trial

    No card, no auto-enrol

  • 7-day

    Money-back guarantee

  • PCI-DSS

    Payments, never stored here

Quick answer

What is DrexTV?

DrexTV is a premium IPTV subscription for the United Kingdom and international viewers. It streams 24,000+ live television channels from 100+ countries plus 140,000+ on-demand movies and series over your existing internet connection, in resolutions up to 4K UHD. It works on Firestick, smart TVs, Android, Apple TV, MAG boxes and computers, takes about 5 minutes to set up, and costs an effective $9.67 a month on the 12-month plan. A free 24-hour trial is available with no card required.

Television changed shape twice in the last decade. First it moved off the dish and the coaxial cable and onto the internet. Then it fragmented, so the programming a single household actually wants — a domestic league, a home-country news channel, a film catalogue, children's programming in two languages — ended up spread across four subscriptions and two countries' rights holders.

DrexTV exists to collapse that back into one login. Instead of a regional package built around where your billing address happens to be, you get the aggregate: every major market's national broadcasters, the sports tiers, the film channels, the diaspora line-ups, and a 140,000+-title on-demand library, delivered by a network of 14 edge locations built to hold up on a Saturday afternoon rather than only on a Tuesday morning.

Why the picture holds up

Engineering you can actually check

Anyone can claim 20,000 channels. These are the specific mechanisms that decide whether a stream survives a Saturday afternoon, and every one of them is a number you can test on the free trial.

14 edge locations

Anti-freeze load balancing

If the edge you are connected to degrades, your session moves to a healthy one mid-stream instead of freezing.

4K UHD · 60fps

True 4K at up to 22 Mbps

4K UHD, 1080p FHD, 720p HD and SD, with adaptive bitrate so the picture matches your line rather than breaking on it.

7 days forward

7-day programme guide

A complete, timezone-aware electronic programme guide, not a channel list with placeholder titles.

7 days back

7-day catch-up TV

Scroll the guide backwards and play anything from the past week directly, with no recording set up in advance.

< 2 seconds

Sub-two-second channel changes

Short segment lengths and warm edges make browsing feel like a set-top box rather than a web player.

Unlimited installs

Multi-screen on one account

Install on every device you own; the limit is on concurrent streams, not on installations.

5 minutes, start to finish

Three steps between here and live television

No dish, no engineer, no installation window. If you can install an app, you can do this — and if you would rather not, support will walk you through it in about 5 minutes.

  1. Start your free trial

    30 seconds

    Request the free 24-hour trial. No card, no PayPal, no payment details of any kind — just an email address to send credentials to.

  2. Install a player on your device

    3 minutes

    Install IPTV Smarters Pro, TiviMate or the player we recommend for your specific device. Device guides cover Firestick, smart TVs, Android, Apple, Roku, MAG and desktop.

  3. Log in and start watching

    90 seconds

    Enter the username, password and server URL from your activation email. The channel list and 7-day guide load in under a minute, and you are watching.

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What is in the line-up

24,000+ channels, organised so you can find something

A very large channel list is only useful if the guide is structured. Here is how ours breaks down, with the count for each category.

4,200+

Sports

Domestic and international sport across every major discipline, with dedicated pay-per-view channels that open for fight nights and championship events.

6,800+

Entertainment & general

Flagship general-entertainment networks, drama and comedy channels, reality programming and the free-to-air line-ups of more than 100 countries.

3,100+

Movies & cinema

Round-the-clock film channels covering current releases, genre catalogues and world cinema, in 4K where the source signal supports it.

1,400+

News & business

Rolling international news in 30+ languages plus financial-market channels, parliamentary feeds and regional bulletins.

1,250+

Kids & family

Age-appropriate animation, pre-school and educational programming, with a parental-control PIN that locks anything outside the family tier.

980+

Documentary & knowledge

Natural history, science, engineering, history and true-crime documentary channels, many carried in 4K.

5,400+

International & diaspora

Home-country channels for expatriate households — the single most requested category we carry, spanning more than 45 languages.

420+

4K & UHD showcase

A dedicated 4K bouquet for sport, nature, cinema and demo content, delivered at up to 22 Mbps where your connection allows.

Event-based

Pay-per-view & events

Numbered event channels that activate ahead of major fight cards, wrestling events and one-off championship broadcasts, at no extra charge on any active plan.

A smart TV, tablet, phone, laptop, streaming stick and set-top box all running DrexTV IPTV

Works on what you own

Every device, every player, every protocol

We issue Xtream Codes credentials, an M3U playlist and a Stalker portal URL on the same account, so you are never locked into a single app. Install on as many devices as you like — your plan governs concurrent streams, not installations.

Transparent pricing

One price, everything included

No tiers that hold back 4K, no sports surcharge, no per-room box rental and no pay-per-view billing. Every plan carries the full 24,000+-channel line-up and the complete on-demand library.

1 Month

Trying DrexTV with zero commitment

$13.99/ month

$13.99/month effective

Full access on a rolling monthly basis. No contract, cancel whenever you like.

1 simultaneous connection

Unlimited installs · add a second screen for $4.99/month

Choose 1 Month

Free 24h trial first · no card required

6 Months

A full sports season, end to end

$79.00/ 6 months

$13.17/month effective

$83.94 billed monthly

Save 6% vs monthly

Covers a complete league season without committing to a year. The mid-point on price and term.

1 simultaneous connection

Unlimited installs · add a second screen for $4.99/month

Choose 6 Months

Free 24h trial first · no card required

Most popular

12 Months

Replacing cable outright

Offer — now $116

$124.99$116.00/ 12 months

$9.67/month effective

$167.88 billed monthly

Save 31% vs monthly — best value

The lowest effective monthly price we offer, plus priority sports routing during peak fixtures.

1 simultaneous connection

Unlimited installs · add a second screen for $4.99/month

Choose 12 Months

Free 24h trial first · no card required

Straight comparison

DrexTV against a traditional cable package

The cable figures below are market averages for the United States, cited from published 2026 comparison data rather than estimated.

DrexTVTypical UK / US pay-TV
Monthly cost$9.67 effective on the annual plan£90+ UK premium / $127+ US average
ContractNone — buy a fixed period12 to 24-month minimum term
Channels24,000+ from 100+ countries150–300, one country
On-demand library140,000+ titles includedLimited, often billed per title
Installation~5 minutes, self-serviceEngineer visit, 1–3 weeks
HardwareUse devices you already ownRented box, monthly fee per room
Pay-per-view eventsIncluded at no extra charge$60–$90 per event
Watch abroadYes, anywhereNo, tied to your address
Mid-term price risesNever within a paid periodWritten into most contracts

Cable cost figures cited from GeekVibesNation via Guru IPTV (2026), which puts the average United States household pay-TV bill above $127 a month against an IPTV market average of $15.40. Pay-per-view pricing reflects typical published event rates. Read the full comparison.

Choosing a provider

How to tell a real service from a reseller

This market has a trust problem, and it is earned. Here is what we do differently — and more usefully, what you should check on any provider before you pay them.

01

We publish specifications, not slogans

Every number on this site — bitrates, speed requirements, uptime target, edge count, connection limits — is stated plainly and identically on every page. Providers who cannot be specific are usually hiding something, and inconsistent channel counts across a site's own pages is the most reliable warning sign in this market.

02

Test us at the worst possible moment

We actively want you to run the free 24-hour trial during a peak fixture — a Saturday afternoon, a Sunday football slate, a pay-per-view fight night. That is when capacity problems surface, and it is the only test that tells you anything real about a provider.

03

No contract, no auto-renewal trap

You buy a fixed period and it ends. There is no rolling contract, no early termination charge, no mid-term price rise and no automatic renewal you have to remember to cancel before a deadline.

04

Support that has actually seen your device

Our agents work from the same device guides published on this site. That is why a 5-minute response usually resolves the problem in the first reply rather than opening a three-day thread.

Coverage

100+ countries on one login

Your home country's channels and the channels of the country you live in, from the same credentials, with no regional lock and no second subscription. This is the single most common reason our subscribers switch.

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Choosing an IPTV subscription in 2026

The IPTV market is growing quickly and unevenly. The global market is projected to exceed $150 billion by 2026, and internet protocol television had already reached roughly 40% of all European pay-TV subscriptions by the end of 2024. Category search interest has risen more than 300% across several markets. What that growth has not produced is a reliable way for a buyer to tell a well-run service from a reseller who bought credits last week.

There is a structural reason for that. Google, Meta and Microsoft all prohibit paid advertising for this category, so providers cannot buy their way to visibility and nobody is subject to the advertising review that comes with it. The result is a market where the loudest claim wins, and where channel counts inflate every quarter without anything behind them.

What actually predicts whether a service will hold up

Four things, and none of them is the channel count.

  • Behaviour at peak, not average. Streams fail on Saturday afternoons, Sunday football slates and pay-per-view fight nights, because that is when concurrency spikes. A provider that performs on a Tuesday morning has told you nothing. Test during a peak fixture, deliberately.
  • Channel-change time. How long the picture takes to appear when you move channels is the most honest single indicator of infrastructure quality, because it depends on edge proximity, segment length and whether popular channels are kept warm. Under two seconds is good. Five or more means a single origin somewhere far away.
  • Programme guide accuracy. A correct, timezone-aware seven-day guide is expensive to maintain and cannot be faked. If the guide is blank, wrong, or shows the same placeholder title on every channel, the operation is thin.
  • Internal consistency. Read three pages of any provider's website and compare the numbers. If the channel count, the price and the trial length disagree between the homepage, the pricing page and the FAQ, the specifications are marketing copy rather than facts.

What internet speed you actually need

This is the most common pre-purchase question, and the honest answer is that it depends on resolution and simultaneous streams rather than on the service. Per stream: SD needs about 5 Mbps, 720p about 10 Mbps, 1080p about 15 Mbps, and 4K UHD about 25 Mbps. Every plan includes one stream, so 25 Mbps sustained is the figure that matters; if you add a second connection and run two 4K streams, budget roughly 50 Mbps.

Sustained is the operative word. A line that bursts to 200 Mbps on a speed test but dips below 20 Mbps during the evening peak will buffer, while a rock-steady 40 Mbps connection will not. If you have a choice between more headline bandwidth and a wired connection, take the cable — Wi-Fi is the cause of the clear majority of buffering reports we investigate.

Where the savings actually come from

The headline comparison is stark. A UK premium satellite or cable package with sport and film routinely exceeds £90 a month on a 24-month term. The average United States household pays more than $127 a month for cable. Our 12-month plan works out at $9.67 a month.

But the subscription price is only part of it. Cable bills carry a set-top box rental per room, a regional sports surcharge, broadcast fees, an installation charge, and pay-per-view billed at $60 to $90 per event. DrexTV has none of those: you use hardware you already own, the sports tier is not a surcharge, and pay-per-view events are included on any active plan. For a household that watches four or five fight nights a year, that item alone can exceed the entire annual subscription.

On legality, plainly

Internet protocol television is a delivery technology, and it is entirely legal — national broadcasters and telecoms operators use it to deliver their own services. What determines legality in any given case is whether the content being carried is properly licensed for the territory where it is watched, and licensing rules differ substantially between countries.

DrexTV supplies the technical platform and the network. We do not host, record or claim ownership of third-party channels, and we hold no affiliation with any broadcaster, league or rights holder. Subscribers are responsible for holding whatever licence or permission their local law requires for the content they choose to access. Our acceptable use policy and copyright policy set out how we handle rights-holder notices, and what is IPTV covers the technology in more depth.

99.9% uptime target

Prove it to yourself in 24 hours

Full access to all 24,000+ channels and 140,000+ on-demand titles, with no card and no auto-billing. Pick the busiest fixture on this week's schedule and test us on it — that is the only trial that tells you anything.

Asked of Google and ChatGPT

IPTV questions, answered so they can be quoted

The queries that show up in People Also Ask and in AI chats. 53 answers live on the full FAQ, each written to stand alone.

How much does IPTV cost per month in 2026?

Serious IPTV subscriptions typically sit between $12 and $20 a month on a rolling plan, and $5.50 to $8.50 a month on a prepaid year (Cited: 2026 comparison ranges aggregated from NerdBot, GeekVibesNation and PC Tech Magazine). DrexTV is $13.99 for one month, or $116.00 on the current offer (usually $124.99) for twelve months — an effective $9.67 a month. In the UK that compares with £90+ a month for a premium satellite or cable package with sport and film. Comparison-site annual floors often describe stripped plans: a prepaid year well under $8 a month usually means cutting peak-hour capacity, the programme guide, or 24/7 support.

Does IPTV work on Firestick?

Yes. Amazon Fire TV Stick is the most common DrexTV setup, and it takes about 5 minutes: install TiviMate or IPTV Smarters Pro from the app store, enter the three Xtream Codes fields from your activation email, and the channel list loads. 4K Sticks handle 4K UHD cleanly; older HD Sticks should be set to 1080p. A wired Ethernet adaptor is worth it if the stick sits far from the router.

Do I need an IPTV box?

No. An IPTV box is a piece of hardware; an IPTV subscription is the service that fills it. DrexTV works on a Firestick, Smart TV, Android TV, Apple TV, phone, tablet or computer you already own. A dedicated MAG or Android box is optional for households that want a living-room player, not a requirement of the subscription.

Can I watch IPTV on a Samsung or LG smart TV without a Firestick?

Yes. Samsung Tizen and LG webOS both run IPTV player apps directly, so a stick is optional rather than required. The player usually costs a few dollars as a one-off to the app developer — not a DrexTV fee — because those stores do not offer a normal paid-app route for this category. Android TV, Google TV, Apple TV and a computer also work without any extra hardware.

What is the best IPTV for live sports?

The one that still holds 50fps through the second half of a peak fixture, not the one with the longest sports-channel list. DrexTV carries about 4,200 dedicated sports channels plus pay-per-view event channels on every plan, encoded at source frame rate, and we dimension capacity for roughly three times average concurrency because Saturday afternoon is when the service is actually judged. Test that claim on the free 24-hour trial during a live match — a Tuesday-morning demo tells you nothing.

Is IPTV legal?

The technology itself is entirely legal — internet protocol television is simply how television is delivered over a network, and major broadcasters and telecoms operators use it. What determines legality is whether the content being carried is properly licensed for the territory it is viewed in. Licensing and permissions vary by country, so subscribers are responsible for holding whatever rights their local law requires for the content they access.

How many devices can I use at once?

Every DrexTV plan includes one simultaneous stream. You can install the app on as many devices as you like — a stick in the living room, a phone on the commute, a laptop in a hotel — because the limit is on concurrent streams, not installations. If you need two screens playing at once, an extra connection is $4.99 a month on any plan, with no change of term and no device registration step.

Is the free trial really free?

Yes. The 24-hour trial requires no credit card, no PayPal and no payment details of any kind. It gives you the same 24,000+ channels and 140,000+ on-demand titles as a paid subscription — the only difference is that it expires after 24 hours. When it ends, access simply stops. There is no auto-enrolment and no charge.

What is the difference between IPTV and Netflix?

Netflix is an on-demand catalogue of programmes it licenses or produces. IPTV is live linear television — the same kind of broadcast grid cable and satellite deliver — plus an on-demand library on the same login. A household running four streaming apps in 2026 is typically spending around $55 a month for rotating catalogues and still missing live sport, local news and home-country channels. DrexTV is $9.67 a month on the annual plan for 24,000+ live channels and 140,000+ on-demand titles. They solve different jobs; the comparison that actually matters is IPTV versus cable, or IPTV versus a stack of streaming apps.

Will IPTV buffer during live football?

It can, and the cause is usually local rather than the match. Evening-only buffering is almost always 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi congestion; a wired connection or the 5 GHz band fixes most of it. If every channel buffers, test your sustained speed at 9pm, not at noon. If only one channel buffers, that is a source-side fault and nothing on your end will fix it — message support with the channel name. We provision peak capacity at about three times average concurrency specifically so a Saturday 15:00 kick-off does not push streams down the bitrate ladder.

How long does it take to set up DrexTV?

About 5 minutes on most devices. Your credentials arrive within roughly 60 seconds of activation, and the remaining time is installing a player app and typing three fields. On Android TV, where no sideloading is needed, it is closer to two minutes.