Is there a way to know if a provider is just reseller of another Chinese service?

[Gewber]

I’m not trying to call anyone out or anything but I’m curious to know if there is a way to decipher whether or not a provider is simply a reseller of one of the many cheap services that can be bought from any of the Chinese marketplace sites?

On related note has anyone used a cheapo Chinese provider and found them to be actually good?

Thanks

 

[Ferret.]

Just take a month as a trial and make your own mind up regarding resellers. As it goes most are resellers server owners dont get their hands dirty.

With Chinese sellers quality of the streams can be good. Downsides are playlists are a mess and all over, if you can cope with that then they just deicide to disappear ay will.

 

[mike123]

There might be suttle signs for e.g some mark the 50fps as UHD and sometimes FHD is actually missing

Some channels you expect to see are not there EPG not complete for UK and USA as a minimum

And some may not have TNT ultimate and UHD skysports main or any 50fps skysports or TNT sports

 

[Gewber]

Just take a month as a trial and make your own mind up regarding resellers. As it goes most are resellers server owners dont get their hands dirty.

With Chinese sellers quality of the streams can be good. Downsides are playlists are a mess and all over, if you can cope with that then they just deicide to disappear ay will.

I should have clarified in my OP that I meant trying to work out if its a Chinese reseller once you’ve actually taken a trial or a full subscription.

 

[mike123]

You have to look at the suttle differences price may also be a indicator but not always. Look at VOD content as well all these things will give you a idea. Marked up as FHD when its actually HD is another

 

[shineon58]

I use a cheap (I assume) Chinese service as a backup for my main provider. had it for around a year, no real problems with it, picture quality for the footy is good, no glitching, epg not perfect, but none really are I find. It has most countries tv, so disabling the ones you dont need takes a wee bit of time, I use IPTV smarters pro for this.
For less than £20 its worth it to me if there are issues with me main service.

 

[Wellyfish]

I’m not trying to call anyone out or anything but I’m curious to know if there is a way to decipher whether or not a provider is simply a reseller of one of the many cheap services that can be bought from any of the Chinese marketplace sites?

On related note has anyone used a cheapo Chinese provider and found them to be actually good?

Thanks

Can't answer your first question but I've been using "cheapo Chinese provider" as a backup for a while now - often it's better (and much cheaper) than my "primary" provider.

I use epgenius to do most of the channel sorting.

 

[Aristotle]

I’m not trying to call anyone out or anything but I’m curious to know if there is a way to decipher whether or not a provider is simply a reseller of one of the many cheap services that can be bought from any of the Chinese marketplace sites?

On related note has anyone used a cheapo Chinese provider and found them to be actually good?

Thanks

I have tried lots of the cheaper top tier marketplace services and currently use one of them for backup but these services do need curating and you also need to use a better epg as the one that usually comes with them isn’t great tbh.
As for knowing if a seller is passing it off as something else.
That could depends on how well they curate it and possibly make it look like a private service.

 

[remiknox]

Assuming the seller is using a cloudflare proxy and custom URL, there isn't an easy way to tell, other than knowing what those services look like. If they're changing the categories with IPTV Editor (etc.), it's even harder to tell.

 

[userlee5267]

There is one huge provider that a lot resell and do custom playlists themselfs .

Hard to tell sometimes

 

[safcsat]

As others have said, pretty hard to tell sometimes! Could be same service, EPG groups changed, pushed out to clients. I probably wouldn't worry too much if you are happy with the price and how it performs. Else you will be off down a rabbit hole for not much reason in all honesty.