Three different buyers type the same phrase. The first runs a venue and wants television on screens customers watch: a bar, a salon, a waiting room. The second wants internal displays, meaning signage, dashboards, break-room screens and staff briefings on an internal network. The third wants to start a service and sell subscriptions. Guides on this query blur all three together, which is why they end up giving advice that fits none of them. The three split cleanly on one question: who can see the screen. Public viewing is a rights question first and a technology question second. Internal viewing is a network and capacity question. Reselling is a content licensing business, and licensing is the entire cost.

1. 1Customer-facing screens: rights question, then technology
2. 2Internal displays and signage: bandwidth and device question
3. 3Reselling: a licensing business, not a hosting project

No, and that holds for every consumer television subscription, not just ours. Consumer terms cover private household viewing. Playing the same feed where paying customers can watch is a public performance, a right sold separately. US statutory damages under 17 U.S.C. 504(c) run from $750 to $30,000 per work, and up to $150,000 where infringement is willful. There is a narrow exemption in 17 U.S.C. 110(5)(B), but read its wording: it covers transmissions from a station licensed by the Federal Communications Commission, or a cable system or satellite carrier, and it caps premises at 3,750 gross square feet for food and drink venues, 2,000 elsewhere, above which the limits are four audiovisual devices, one per room, none over 55 inches diagonal. An internet-delivered stream is not the thing that clause describes. Ask a lawyer about your venue, not a provider's sales page.

1. 1Public display is a right sold separately from the feed
2. 2The 110(5)(B) exemption is written around broadcast transmissions
3. 3Size, screen-count and screen-size limits all apply to it

Screens nobody outside your organization watches move the question from rights to capacity, and capacity is arithmetic. One 4K stream needs 15-25 Mbps and burns about 7 GB an hour. One 1080p stream needs 5-8 Mbps and about 3 GB an hour. Five 4K screens running eight hours a day is roughly 280 GB a day on a sustained 75-125 Mbps. Drop those same five to 1080p and you are at 25-40 Mbps and about 15 GB an hour. HEVC halves the bitrate of H.264 for the same picture, so a device that decodes it changes your numbers more than any app setting. Size the upload side of the line too if the same connection carries calls, and put wired ethernet on any screen that runs all day.

1. 14K: 15-25 Mbps, ~7 GB per hour, per screen
2. 21080p: 5-8 Mbps, ~3 GB per hour, per screen
3. 3Wire the always-on screens; leave Wi-Fi for the mobile ones

Our plans carry 1 to 5 simultaneous connections with unlimited installs, so the app can sit on ten devices while five of them play at the same moment. That ceiling is the honest limit of a household plan in a small workplace: a two-screen break room and a private office fit inside it, a floor of twelve televisions does not. Anyone selling you one login for a wall of screens is either overselling capacity or ignoring the rights question above, and both show up later. The catalog side is 54,000+ live channels and 219,577+ VOD titles across 190+ countries, which matters less than the connection count for this use. Count your screens first, then pick the connection tier, not the other way round.

1. 1Unlimited installs, but 1-5 concurrent streams
2. 2Count peak simultaneous screens, not total devices

Buyers in this market openly treat ranked lists as paid placement, and they are not wrong to be careful, so judge on things you can check rather than on a ranking. Three signals come up again and again in community threads about avoiding scams: crypto-only payment, refunds offered as store credit or gift cards, and a flat refusal to sell any trial. Any one of them is a reason to walk. Then ask for numbers a service has to stand behind: a stated uptime figure, a written refund window, and whether anything auto-renews. Ours are 99.99% uptime, which is about 53 minutes of downtime a year, a 7-day money-back window on plans, and nothing auto-renews with no card kept on file. The $5 24-hour trial sits outside that refund window because it is the test itself.

1. 1Crypto-only checkout, gift-card refunds, no trial: walk away
2. 2Ask for uptime, refund window and renewal terms in writing

The guides ranking for this query walk you through servers, panels and marketing, then go quiet on the only line item that decides whether the business exists: content rights. Hosting, transcoding and a player app are the cheap, solved part. Negotiating distribution rights territory by territory is slow, expensive and gated on volume you do not have on day one, which is why so many operations skip it and become the thing buyers are warned about. If you still want in, price the licensing first and build second. If the licensing math does not close, you are not starting a television business, you are renting bandwidth and hoping. Reselling someone else's line puts your name on their capacity and their outages, with none of the control.

1. 1Rights, not infrastructure, are the real barrier
2. 2Reselling means your reputation rides on another line's capacity