Which feeds are truly 4K rather than upscaled, what your connection and hardware need to carry them, and how to stop a 4K stream stuttering while HD runs fine.
Plenty of services attach a 4K label to whatever they are already sending. The distinction worth caring about is whether the broadcaster produced the event in 4K in the first place, because upscaling a 1080p feed adds pixels without adding detail. The channels listed below are genuine Ultra HD feeds, carried at a high bitrate, and each one has an HD twin beside it in the list.
| Requirement | Minimum | Recommended |
|---|---|---|
| Internet speed | 25 Mbps | 50 Mbps, wired |
| Device | Any 4K-capable box or TV | Fire TV 4K Max, Shield TV, Formuler Z11, Apple TV 4K |
| App | IPTV Smarters Pro | TiViMate with hardware decoding |
| TV | 4K panel with HDMI 2.0 | 4K HDR panel |
| Plan | Any Tivo8k plan; 4K is included | |
$ 15 25 35 49 / 1 month
about $15.00 per month about $25.00 per month about $35.00 per month about $49.00 per month
$ 29 49 65 99 / 3 months
about $9.67 per month about $16.33 per month about $21.67 per month about $33.00 per month
$ 45 75 99 149 / 6 months
about $7.50 per month about $12.50 per month about $16.50 per month about $24.83 per month
$ 69 119 159 239 / 12 months
about $5.75 per month about $9.92 per month about $13.25 per month about $19.92 per month
All plans include the same 25,000+ channels and 120,000+ VOD titles. No auto-renewal, no contract, 7-day money-back guarantee. Prices in USD.
4K is worth it on a 55-inch or larger screen for sport and films. On a phone, tablet or small TV, HD looks identical and uses a quarter of the data. Tivo8k lists 4K, HD and SD versions of the main channels side by side, so you choose per channel rather than per plan. Read our Firestick guide for the decoder settings that make 4K play smoothly.
The free 24-hour trial includes the full 4K category.
Live television streamed at 3840 by 2160, four times the detail of 1080p, over an ordinary internet connection. The resolution is only half the story: a high bitrate matters at least as much, which is why a well-carried 4K feed looks better than a poorly compressed one at the same resolution.
A steady 25 Mbps carries a single 4K stream; 50 Mbps is comfortable and leaves room for the rest of the house. Stability beats headline speed here, and a wired connection to the box removes the most common cause of 4K stuttering outright.
Fire TV Stick 4K Max, Nvidia Shield, Formuler Z11 Pro Max, Apple TV 4K, or any 2019-or-later 4K television from Samsung, LG or Sony. Older Firesticks and budget Android boxes cap at 1080p regardless of what the stream carries.
No. Every plan from one month to twelve includes the 4K feeds. There is no premium tier and no upgrade charge; the only thing plan length changes is the price per month and the number of simultaneous screens.
Not meaningfully, and we would rather say so. Almost nothing is produced in 8K, so services advertising it are upscaling. Our page on 8K IPTV explains what genuinely broadcasts in it today and why a high-bitrate 4K feed is the better target.
A 4K feed needs three to four times the bandwidth of HD, so it fails first when something is marginal. Set the player to hardware decoding, move the device onto Ethernet if it is on Wi-Fi, and keep the HD copy of the channel as a fallback during peak hours.
