Imagine that you can watch dozens of different TV channels on your Android and iOS devices for free, without different freemium-premium traps, including the archive of transfers for the past week. And you have an IP-TV connected to your home, and you can broadcast the purchased package of channels to your smartphone and tablet. Plus an unlimited number of TV channels from any available IPTV playlists. It sounds great, does not it? Today, the Lifehacker will talk about how to implement all the buns described above using one application.
Peers.TV (Android | iOS) is the rare case when you honestly get a freebie for what the developer has promised you.
We persistently tried to find a place in which they want to deceive us, but somehow it did not work out. You put the application, you launch, and here they are – dozens of TV channels. For every taste, for children and adults, without banners and other lewdness.
Each channel, pre-installed in Peers.TV, can be watched not only live, but also look into the archive – the service stores all broadcasts in the previous 7 days. Did not have time for the match of your favorite team? Missed the series in which the murderer Laura Palmer was found out? With the ability to roll back into the past for a week, you can generally rebuild the familiar format of interaction with TV, viewing interesting issues and transmissions at a convenient time.
Favorite channels are recommended to be added to the favorites list (tap to an asterisk during viewing). Thus, they will always be at the top of the list and they will not have to be searched. In addition to its own favorite list, the user can look in the category “Popular”. This is where the most current programs are received. In simple terms, this is a daily updated TOP by the number of views.
Also, on the eve of significant events such as the New Year or, for example, the Olympics in Sochi, Peers.TV makes themed collections and notifies them through push notifications.
IPTV and playlists
In theory, pre-installed channels by default are quite enough, but, often, a person has special personal preferences that go beyond the content provided by public channels. Someone definitely needs Animal Planet, and another simply does not fall asleep without an informative report from Discovery. Actually, because of this, people connect IPTV. The beauty of Peers.TV is that it easily and freely allows you to expand the original list of channels using playlists in the format m3u and xspf.
The process of adding is extremely simple – just specify the address of the list and give it some name. The channels enrolled in the playlist automatically add to the list of channels in the main application menu.
If you talk about the channels that broadcasts the Internet provider of the user, they can also be added to the list. If, for some reason, there are no channels from the provider, the Peers.TV support service comes into operation. Judging by the communication with them, the support reacts actively to the wishes of users to add channels and solves technical issues with the availability of IPTV from the provider.
For all its coolness, Peers.TV wrapped in a very simple and intuitive interface. There are not a dozen buttons on the entire application that you can click.
Minuses
It should be understood that stream video is a lot of data that must be transmitted smoothly. Hence, higher requirements are imposed on the quality of the connection. With a weak unstable 3G, blunts and interruptions are possible, which, of course, does not add to the pleasure of viewing.
Also disappointment is waiting for users of the second version of Android. Peers.TV works only on green robots 4.0+.
In the rest, we have no complaints and can not be – we need to say thanks to the developers for such a quality and completely free application.
Peers.TV for Android – Google Play (for free)
Peers.TV for iOS – App Store (for free)
Web version of the Peers.TV service for viewing TV in the browser
