The Channel List, Read by Who Wants What

Roughly what a large cable package carries, plus a great deal more from abroad. The American, British and Canadian networks; the sports tiers including ESPN, Sky Sports, beIN and TSN; news, children's and film channels; and national broadcasters from around sixty countries. The last of those is the category households most often discover they wanted.

The wrong question, and every provider in this market competes to answer it. Headline counts inflate trivially by counting regional variants, duplicate bitrates and feeds that died months ago. What settles it for a household is narrower: are the thirty or forty channels your four people actually reach for present, and do they hold at nine o'clock.

On all of them, with no upgrade fee, because the tier governs simultaneity and nothing else. Ultra HD covers the major sport, the pay-per-view nights and a run of film channels, and every one of those sits beside an HD copy — which is what you reach for when three screens are running and the line is working hard.

Ask on WhatsApp. Where it exists upstream and is simply absent from your categories, it is usually added within the day. Where we do not carry it at all, you will be told that plainly instead of being left on a maybe — which matters most for the national channel somebody in the house specifically wants.

Identical, because it belongs to the account rather than to the app. A Firestick, a Samsung set and a laptop all receive the same content. What you can vary per screen is what is hidden — and you should, since the favourites that suit the living room rarely suit the tablet the children use.