[vel0city]

I forget the names of the services, but I've known a few people with a similar $10-20/mo IPTV pirate service that has pretty much every live channel and pay-per-view stream you could want. Local channels for pretty much every major city around the world. Every UFC fight. Every cricket game. Every rugby match. Every boxing match. Sixteen Sky Sports channels. International news channels. International local channels. Every HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, Starz, ScreenPix, MGM, and SkyCinema channels. Five MTV channels.

They also didn't have any hiccups watching the Tyson v. Paul match, which was also available.

They would even sometimes have access to the raw sports streams before the ad injection, so sports games would cut to stylized "Ad break in progress" scenes where there would have otherwise been ads injected for your region.

Pretty much all of these channels in a decent bitrate 1080p stream. You would somehow tie it into Plex so it shows up as if it was a cable box. Plex can handle transcoding for whatever target device you're wanting to watch it on. You didn't need any kind of odd front-end app from the IPTV provider.

That there are a few dozen million people around the world willing to shell out $10-20 to get practically every cable channel like this isn't too surprising to me.