At $10 a month billed for 12 months, the total lands at $120 a year. That is the number to hold every provider's annual quote against. If a full-year price works out to less than about $8 a month, ask why: server costs and support do not shrink with volume in ways that make a channel list ten times bigger for a third of the price. If it prices out well above $10 a month, you are paying for marketing, not delivery. Get the total dollar figure before you get a percentage discount, since discounts are calculated off a number you have not seen yet.

The trial is a $5, 24-hour window and it is excluded from the 7-day refund policy that covers full plans, so treat it as a paid test, not a free sample. Use it to check three things: does live playback hold during a real prime-time window, does switching a channel away and back recover cleanly if something stalls, and does support answer inside the trial period rather than after it expires. A provider that refuses to sell any trial at all is one of the clearer signals to walk away from before you send a year's payment.

The plan carries 1 to 5 simultaneous connections depending on the tier, unlimited installs across your own devices, and a catalog of 54,000+ live channels and 219,577+ VOD titles across 190+ countries. Uptime is 99.99%, which works out to about 53 minutes of downtime across the entire year. None of that is a promise about any single channel or event; it describes the scale and reliability of the delivery, which is what a year-long commitment is actually paying for. Activation takes about 5 minutes once you pay, so most of your first day is spent testing, not waiting on hardware or a technician. Keep those numbers written down somewhere so you can hold the service to them later, rather than relying on memory when something feels slower than it did on day one.

1. 11-5 connections depending on plan
2. 2Unlimited device installs
3. 399.99% uptime, ~53 min/year downtime

Nothing auto-renews, and no card is stored, so a 12-month term does not quietly roll into a 13th month you did not agree to. If quality drops partway through the year, the 7-day window on the original purchase has usually closed, so your leverage is the trial you should have run first and your own record of testing during prime time. That is a reason to treat the first week hard, not to skip the trial to save $5. Write down what a normal evening looks like in week one: which channel groups load cleanly, how long a stream takes to start, and whether a stall recovers when you switch the channel away and back. That record is what you compare against months later if playback ever feels different, instead of guessing whether the change is real or just a bad night on your own WiFi.