Twelve months of IP4KTV is $120, charged once at $10 per month. A US cable or satellite bill in the $70-130 range is $840-1,560 over the same twelve months, and that is the base figure before equipment rental, regional surcharges and sports add-ons appear on the statement. The difference is $720-1,440 a year, verifiable against your own last bill rather than against a review table. Two smaller costs also drop out. Box rental ends, because the plan runs on a Firestick, Roku, Apple TV, Android TV box or MAG unit you already own. Per-room charges end too, since extra screens come from your 1 to 5 connections rather than from extra outlets.

1. 1$120 a year against $840-1,560 for a typical US pay-TV bill
2. 2No rented boxes: the hardware in your living room already works
3. 3Extra rooms come out of connections, not out of new outlets

Per stream the requirement is modest: about 15-25 Mbps for 4K and 5-8 Mbps for 1080p, halved in bitrate terms where HEVC is used. Volume is the part US households should check, because some plans still apply a monthly data allowance. Do the multiplication. Three hours a day of 4K is roughly 7 GB an hour, so 90 hours a month lands near 630 GB. The same viewing at 1080p is about 3 GB an hour, or roughly 270 GB. If your allowance is tight, watching more of the catalog at 1080p, or on HEVC streams where available, is the lever that moves the total.

1. 14K: ~7 GB an hour, so 3 hours a day is roughly 630 GB a month
2. 21080p: ~3 GB an hour, or roughly 270 GB for the same viewing
3. 3HEVC needs about half the bitrate of H.264 for a similar picture

Count screens at your busiest moment, not your average one. A weeknight where one person watches is a single-connection household; a Sunday afternoon with a living room screen, a bedroom screen and a tablet is a three-connection household. IP4KTV allows 1 to 5 simultaneous streams, chosen at checkout, and that cap is the only hard limit in the plan since installs are unlimited. Time zones make this sharper in the US than elsewhere: a household spread across Eastern and Pacific hours stacks its viewing at different clock times, which sometimes means fewer concurrent streams than the device count suggests. Size against the peak and the cap stops mattering.

1. 1Installs are unlimited; only concurrent streams are capped
2. 2Size for the busiest hour, not the weekly average
3. 3Exceeding the cap shows up as a stream that will not start

Four items, each a number or a date. The total, not the monthly headline: $120 for twelve months. The exit: a 7-day money-back window on plans, with the $5 24-hour trial excluded. The cap: 1 to 5 simultaneous connections, stated before checkout rather than after. And the uptime conversion: 99.99% is about 53 minutes across a full year. Two behaviors are worth confirming as well, because they decide how easy leaving is. Nothing auto-renews on IP4KTV, and no card is stored after checkout, which means the plan ends by lapsing rather than by a cancellation process you have to initiate on a phone call.

1. 1A total price, not a monthly figure with a hidden term
2. 2A refund window expressed as days, not as goodwill
3. 3No stored card, so ending the plan takes no action

In sequence, and with an overlap. Buy the $5 24-hour trial while your existing service is still running, so you are comparing rather than gambling. Load the credentials into a player on hardware you own and test during a live event, since that is the moment people decide. Check the two diagnostics that separate a service problem from a home network one: whether a failure is scoped to a single channel group, and whether switching away and back restores the stream. If the picture holds, move to the twelve-month plan at $120 and let the old service run to the end of its current billing period before you close it.

1. 1Overlap the trial with your existing service, do not replace it blind
2. 2Test on a live event, on the television you actually use
3. 3Close the old account only after the plan proves itself