IPTV is live television delivered over your broadband connection instead of through an aerial, satellite dish or cable box. In Ireland it typically costs from €12 a month, works on the devices you already own, and needs nothing installed on the house. That's the whole concept. The rest of this guide is the practical detail.
The plain-English version
Ordinary telly arrives by aerial or dish: a signal broadcast at your house even when nobody's home to watch it. IPTV flips that. Channels stream to you over the internet the same way a video call does, and only when you ask for them.
From the couch, the difference disappears. You still flick channels. The remote still goes missing down the same cushion. What changes is the plumbing, and the bill.
How it actually works, start to finish
The mechanics are shorter than most people expect.
- You order a subscription, or a free trial, from a provider's site.
- Login details arrive by email, usually within a couple of hours with us.
- You install a player app on your telly, stick, phone or laptop. Our setup guide covers every device.
- You sign in. Channels load, and that's the system installed.
No engineer, no ladder, no drilling through the gable wall. Moving house means signing in at the new address.
What does IPTV cost in Ireland?
With us, plans start at €12 a month and fall per-month on longer terms; the full euro table is on the pricing page. Across the wider market you'll see everything from suspiciously cheap year-deals in classifieds groups to prices near ours. The gap between those two things is usually reliability, and sometimes it's your money vanishing. More on that in our guide to free IPTV and what's actually a scam.
What can you watch?
Lineups vary by provider. Ours carries 25,000+ live channels: Irish and UK staples, sport, news, kids' channels and music, plus 120,000+ films and series on demand, and language packages that matter in real Irish households: Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Lithuanian, Hindi, Mandarin, Arabic and more. If a specific channel is your dealbreaker, ask the provider to confirm it's carried before paying. A good one will just tell you.
What do you need?
Two things you almost certainly have: broadband that can hold a video stream, and a screen. As a rule of thumb, 20 megabits per second is comfortably enough, and most Irish broadband clears that easily. Fibre makes it effortless; decent rural fixed wireless copes better than people expect.
Try it without risking anything
We run a 24-hour free trial with no card, full service. Test it at your peak evening hour on your own broadband. If it convinces you, the plans are on one page in euro. If it doesn't, you've lost nothing but an evening's channel-flicking.