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Offsidestreams
Signing up
http://offsidestreams.com/site/

Cancelling your account:
1. Simply send an email to [email protected] with subject name "Cancellation - Information" .
From OSS "We get 500+ emails daily almost, so whether its for offsidestreams, kickoffstreams, etc etc etc, you must email us and be patient."
2. Use the Cancellation form on their website after you logged in.

Contact details: See 2 above

Channels List
Sportsnet World HD, OSN 1
New OSN 2, OSN 3, OSN 4
New Ten Cricket, UK Gold
New ITV 1, ITV 2
New ITV 3, ITV 4
New BBC One, BBC Two
NICK, DISCOVERY!
CNN, Sky Sports 1
Sky Sports 2, Sky Sports 3
Sky Sports 4, Sky Sports F1
Sky Sports News, BT Sports 1
BT Sports 2, Racing UK
BoxNation, At The Races
Sky Drama, Sky Action
Sky Sci-Fi, Sky Movies premier
Sky Movies family, Sky Comedy
ESPN UK, JSC +1 JSC +2 JSC +3 JSC +4 JSC +5 JSC +6 JSC +7 JSC +8 JSC +9 JSC +10
Premier Sports, Setanta Ireland
Sky One PPV Events
Kiss TV - Free, Heart TV - Free, SKY Poker - Free, NHK World - Free, Russia Today - Free,
AlJazeera English News - Free
AMC, Bravo
FoxSports 2, Spike
NBA TV, Sportsnet Ontario
FOX 5, USA
ABC, CHELSEA TV - Free
SYFY HD, FXX HD
TNT HD, FX HD
MSG Network, MTV 1
USA Network, CBS
NBC, ESPN USA
Fox Sports 1, Sportsnet One HD
TSN HD, HBO
CTV HD, NBC Sports HD
Bein Sports HD

SKY Sports 1 HD
SKY Sports 2 HD
Sky Sports 3 HD
Sky Sports 4 HD
BT1 HD
BT 2 HD
Eurosport 1 HD
Eurosport 2 HD
Sky News HD
Sky Sports F1 HD

Price: R69.01 p/m as on 7/8/2013

See later posts for EPG Setup Guide
You can also install their Android App

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NTV
Signing up
http://ntv.mx/?c=2&a=0&p=9&r=xbmc

Contact details: [email protected]

Channels List
5 Star
5 USA
Alibi
BBC One
BBC Two
Channel 4
Channel 5
Comedy Central
Dave
E4
Fox
Gold
ITV 1
ITV 2
More 4
MTV
Sky 1
Sky 2
Sky Atlantic
TLC
At The Races
Box Nation
British Eurosport
British Eurosports 2
BT Sports 1
BT Sports 2
ESPN
Motors TV
Racing UK
Sky Sports 1
Sky Sports 2
Sky Sports 3
Sky Sports 4
Sky Sports F1
Sky Sports News
Trace Sports
VH1
Viva
Setanta Ireland
Setanta Sports 1
AlJazeera sport in the works
Film 4
Movies4Men
Sky Action
Sky Comedy
Sky Drama
Sky Family
Sky Modern Greats
Sky Premiere
Sky Sci-Fi and Horror
Sky Select
Sky Showcase
Sky Thriller
TCM
Cartoon Network
Nick Jr
Nick Jr 2
Nickelodeon
Animal Planet
Crime and Investigation
Discovery Channel
Discovery Science
Eden
Nat Geo Channel UK
Nat Geo Wild UK
Yesterday
Al Jazeera English
BBC World News
CNN Int Europe
Fox News
Sky News
Discovery Home and Health
Home
SKY SPORT 1 HD
SKY SPORT 2 HD
SKY SPORT 4 HD
SKY NEWS HD

Price: R190.41 p/m as on 8/8/2013

Sign up with the link above and you can test drive the service for 1 week completely free, all premium channels included.

Works well on a 4mb line with no buffering.
There is also an instant tv guide to show what is on the channel.

You can test BBC One channel for free.

There is also more than 32 Norwegian, Swedish & Danish channels in a separate package for the same price.

Thought to post this for people interested in the sports channels and the free channels you can watch.
Hope someone finds it useful.
 
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You can get most of the sport channels free if you search. Also not HD, but at 1Mb/s I'm not picky. :)
 
xbmcfan said:
Free Channels(No charge)

After your 2 week trial you can still access the above channels for free.
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Which one provides those channels for free? NTV or OffsideStreams?

Does any of the two provide an rtsp, rsp or udp playlist for their channels?
 
TOMillr said:
Which one provides those channels for free? NTV or OffsideStreams?

Does any of the two provide an rtsp, rsp or udp playlist for their channels?
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The NTV has the free channels.
It's actually a new service, similar to Futubox but works better on slower connections. It is a bit expensive but they are adding new channels and features and you might be able to buy seperate packages in the future.
They are currently working on implementing a PVR service.

Both of the services have XBMC plugins, so you can watch the channels on Android, Apple, Raspberry Pi, Linux, or Windows devices. You can buy a cheap android media player and hook it up to your HDTV and use it as a replacement for DSTV.

If you want to watch more free channels, you might give Filmon a go.
It has lots of adventure sports, music video, news & lifestyle channels that you can watch for free. It doesn't have premium channels though. It also has a paid subscription option were you can get a DVR service and a couple of extra 'strange' channels. It also has a plugin for XBMC.
 
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Hm, if i look at the lack of any support on Offsidestreams.com and the lack of any secure payment options, I'm not sure if I should sign up with them...

Edit: And the license for their Zendesk support plattform has also expired. Scam site?
 
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NTV definitely has a nice list of channels there. TLC for the SO is a win, too. However the price is a little steep. :(
 
I just signed up for OffsideStream and from first glance it is amazing! So many sport channels including Sky Sports 1-4 so that is soccer sorted for me! There are many other sport channels aswell - busy watching some baseball.

So far so good. Also streams run very smoothly and start after 1-3 seconds. The XBMC plug-in also works really well. All this for 4pounds is a fantastic deal.
 
TOMillr said:
Hm, if i look at the lack of any support on Offsidestreams.com and the lack of any secure payment options, I'm not sure if I should sign up with them...

Edit: And the license for their Zendesk support plattform has also expired. Scam site?
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Not a scam site as far as I can see. Just registered and paid. Got sent my confirmation immediately and all streams are working perfectly!
 
I think I may just look into NTV some more. Their XBMC plugin will make things really easy and setup a less of a hassle. Also it offers a lot of channels I would watch, too.

Will check the trial out and in two weeks time make my decision then. Thanks for sharing!
 
I think I may just look into NTV some more. Their XBMC plugin will make things really easy and setup a less of a hassle. Also it offers a lot of channels I would watch, too.

Will check the trial out and in two weeks time make my decision then. Thanks for sharing!
 
weelzSA said:
Not a scam site as far as I can see. Just registered and paid. Got sent my confirmation immediately and all streams are working perfectly!
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But how I get hold of them and support when their own support platform isn't working anymore? Couldn't find any contact infos so far...
 
TOMillr said:
But how I get hold of them and support when their own support platform isn't working anymore? Couldn't find any contact infos so far...
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Yeah also can't find any contact info but not to worried about it to be honest. All that matters is I get what I paid for and so far this is the case. As mentioned the channels work great and stream really smoothly and all for 4 pounds!
 
Do you know if they provide m3u playlists with rtsp, rtp or udp streams?
 
TOMillr said:
Do you know if they provide m3u playlists with rtsp, rtp or udp streams?
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I dont think so. I just signed up as well and they only have an XBMC plugin. You will not find this plugin on their site though. you have to go to xbmchub.com on the forums section to get the plugin.
 
TOMillr said:
Do you know if they provide m3u playlists with rtsp, rtp or udp streams?
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No, because people previously stole their streams and posted the m3u playlists on the internet, those persons' ip's got banned.
The streams now work with tokens for increased security and are linked to your ip.

The streams work with a xbmc plugin and almost all mobile devices now run xbmc, except for smart tv's I can think of.
 
UPDATE: NTV Price has been reduced to E14.49 p/m, +- R190.41 p/m
Offsidestreams: New channel lineup - NBC Sports, Fox Sports 1 and ESPN1
 
xbmcfan said:
No, because people previously stole their streams and posted the m3u playlists on the internet, those persons' ip's got banned.
The streams now work with tokens for increased security and are linked to your ip.
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Hm, wouldn't RTSP with digest authentication do the trick there? Every login could be tied to a unique login/pass combination and an account could be automatically banned when it is used simultaneously by two different accounts.

I'm just asking because RTSP, RTP or UDP support would make streaming services compatible with DVBLogic's IPTV server LINK which runs on Windows and can than stream to basically every platform or media center client without the need to build or maintain dedicated plugins for everything.
 
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