Better and Cheaper Than IPTV

Re:Better and Cheaper Than IPTV by dtagames on Sunday July 19, 2026 @12:29PM (#48969515)

Thanks for the feedback and I'm sorry that happened. Because the data comes from a public GitHub list of channels, the app has no way to know what will be geoblocked for you (or not) or actually online at the moment (or not) until you try to tune it -- very much like an old analog TV.

But... TV Explorer does keep track of what's tunable (with status lights down the left column) and also lets you scan in the background to find the ones that are live for you right now.

https://tvexplorer.live/help/25-things-18

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Re:Better and Cheaper Than IPTV by SoftTalker on Sunday July 19, 2026 @02:03PM (#48970311)

Thanks, I'll play with it a bit more.

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Re:Better and Cheaper Than IPTV by pessimizer on Sunday July 19, 2026 @05:00PM (#48971620)

Magnificent thing you made, and the scanning is awesome. My problem is that it seems that I can't put more than one filter of the same type on i.e. (Spanish AND English), and if I switch between languages within the filter, the scan is reset.

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Re:Better and Cheaper Than IPTV by dtagames on Sunday July 19, 2026 @09:39PM (#48973506)

Thank you so much for that!

It does only allow filtering by one language at a time, but you can build your hotbar of the stations you like that you find across any filters.

The scan works on the displayed results. If you change the filter, it starts with the new list -- but all the results are saved regardless.

Hope that makes it a bit bitter!

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Re:Better and Cheaper Than IPTV by squigz on Sunday July 19, 2026 @07:11PM (#48972547)

In case anyone else runs into this: the Stats section was not shown for me by default and I had to enable it in Settings.

Really great site though!

Quick suggestion: let us resize the channel browser when it's horizontal, and perhaps allow collapsing it altogether

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Re:Better and Cheaper Than IPTV by dtagames on Sunday July 19, 2026 @09:41PM (#48973510)

Thanks so much for the compliment!

When your window is wide enough (on desktop), you should be able to drag the split point between the TV display and the channel list.

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