Plain answers about IPTV in the USA.

What the service is, how a prepaid term works, what a lineup claim is worth, and the questions worth putting to any provider. No jargon and no hype.

What these pieces have in common is the distance between what a service can state and what a reader can check. A count is easy to state. A list is easy to state. Neither is easy to rely on, and telling those apart is most of the decision.

Everything here is written to be read before you buy anything, and none of it assumes you already have. Where a number is not ours to give, we say so rather than estimating one. Where a question has no single answer, we say that too, and set out what actually varies.