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For a UK household, the things that actually matter are: credentials in a standard format so you are not tied to one company's app, a verifiable registered company behind the service, card or PayPal payment so you keep chargeback rights, genuine British sport including blacked-out Saturday 3PM Premier League kickoffs, and a full-access free trial that needs no card details. Sportix Media is registered at Companies House (No. 14785236) and with the ICO (ZB491823), issues Xtream Codes and M3U logins that work in TiviMate, IPTV Smarters Pro or any player you prefer, carries 35,000+ channels and 120,000+ VOD titles, and offers a 6-hour trial with no payment method required.

It concentrates every risk into a single piece of software you do not control. If that app is removed from the Play Store or Amazon Appstore, if an update breaks playback on your device, if its signing certificate expires, or if the developer stops maintaining it, your subscription becomes unwatchable even though the streams themselves are fine. With standard Xtream Codes or M3U credentials the playlist is separate from the player, so any of those failures costs you the five minutes it takes to install a different app and paste the same login.

Yes. TiviMate, IPTV Smarters Pro and the Smart IPTV apps all support multiple playlists simultaneously. Add our Xtream Codes login alongside your current one, compare the two channel for channel on the same hardware and network, and delete the old playlist once you have decided. Your device, your app, your favourites and your recordings all stay exactly as they are — there is nothing to re-learn.

No, deliberately. We have not independently verified another provider's channel counts, uptime figures or prices, those numbers change without notice, and publishing invented specifications about another business would be both dishonest and legally reckless. When you see a neat comparison table on a review site scoring competitors out of ten, ask where those numbers came from — in most cases nobody tested anything. What we publish instead is our own figures and the credentials you can check yourself.

Xtream Codes is the de facto standard API format for IPTV subscriptions. You get three pieces of information — a portal or server URL, a username and a password — and any compatible player uses them to fetch your channel list, your EPG and your VOD library. An M3U URL is the simpler alternative: one long web address containing the same playlist. Because both are open formats, the subscription is portable between players and devices rather than locked to one vendor's software.

On a single connection Sportix Media charges £10 for one month, £20 for three months, £35 for six months and £45 for twelve — which works out at £3.75 per month on the annual plan. Two-connection plans run £15 to £60, three-connection plans £20 to £75. Every plan includes all 35,000+ channels and the complete 120,000+ VOD library. There are no sports add-ons, no contract and no auto-renewal.

Not if the new provider uses open credentials. The whole process is: claim a trial, open your existing player, add a second playlist using the new Xtream Codes login, and watch. You do not need new hardware, you do not need to uninstall anything, and you do not need to cancel the old subscription until you are satisfied. Running both side by side for a few days at peak time is the only reliable way to compare two services honestly.