Greek IPTV UK: Channels, Price and Value Compared

Verdict: for Greek IPTV in a UK home, the two-hour time gap makes catch-up and a correctly set guide the things to check first. On published data, VIPSATV is the trial to start with and the cheapest to pay monthly, and RoomateTV is the lower price from six months on.

Greece is two hours ahead of the UK, all year round, because both countries move their clocks on the same weekends. That one fact shapes a Greek household’s viewing more than anything on a plan page. An early-evening programme at home can start while you are still on the way back from work, and the guide in your player may be showing Athens time rather than London time. Before comparing the four services, it is worth being clear about what those two hours mean.

Two hours ahead: what that means for Greek IPTV in the UK

Here is the gap in practice:

• A programme at 19:00 in Athens starts at 17:00 in London.
• One at 21:00 in Athens starts at 19:00 in London.
• One at 23:30 in Athens starts at 21:30 in London.

So a late programme in Greece is a comfortable evening slot in the UK, and an early-evening one in Greece lands in the middle of a UK working afternoon. Which way that cuts depends on what you watch. Either way, two things follow: you want catch-up on the channels you care about, and you want the guide to show UK time.

Neither is something we can promise you. None of the four services publishes a Greek channel list, so we cannot say how many Greek channels each one carries, which ones, or whether they have catch-up. What we can do is tell you where to look.

Catch-up is the first question

In a player app, a channel with an archive is usually marked with a small icon or offers a ‘catch up’ option from its guide entry. During the trial, open the Greek group and check the channels you would watch most. Is there an archive at all? How far back does it go, a few hours, a day, several days? Can you start a programme that finished earlier in the evening?

If the programmes you want are early-evening ones in Greece, this is the check that decides whether the service works for you. A service with a large Greek section and no archive on it may suit you less than a smaller one with catch-up on the three channels you actually watch.

Greek script on a British screen

The second check is one that other language sections do not need. The programme guide for a Greek channel may well be in the Greek alphabet. Whether it displays properly depends on the player app and the device, not only on the service.

During the trial, open the guide on a Greek channel and look at the programme names. You want readable Greek text. If you see empty boxes, question marks or scrambled characters, the app or device is not displaying the script. Because the logins from all four services work in standard player apps, as an M3U URL or an Xtream Codes login, you can try a different player on the same device before blaming the service. If the guide shows ‘no information’ instead, that is a different problem: no guide data for that channel.

While you are in the guide, check the time. If the listings are two hours late, find the EPG time offset in the player’s settings and set it to minus two hours.

What the four plan pages say

The published figures, in our ranked order. The channel and on-demand counts cover every language together.

All four list Firestick and Fire TV, Android, Apple TV, iOS, Smart TVs, MAG boxes, PC and Mac. All four recommend 25 Mbps for 4K, sell multi-connection plans, and provide an account page where the channel list can be trimmed. For a Greek and English household, trimming the list down to the Greek group and the UK group makes the guide shorter and far easier to use. VIPSATV’s account page also lets you name each connection, handy if one screen is for the Greek side of the family.

Greek IPTV prices by term

Each service lists one price per term, with no separate introductory rate, so the listed price is also the renewal price.

• One month: VIPSATV £11.99, RoomateTV £13.99, Clixwatch and Streamtion £14.99 each.
• Three months: VIPSATV £28.99 (£9.66 a month), RoomateTV £31.99 (£10.66), Clixwatch £34.99 (£11.66), Streamtion £36.99 (£12.33).
• Six months: RoomateTV £44.99 (£7.50), VIPSATV £47.99 (£8.00), Clixwatch £57.99 (£9.67), Streamtion £60.99 (£10.17).
• Twelve months: RoomateTV £62.99 (£5.25), VIPSATV £66.99 (£5.58), Clixwatch £80.99 (£6.75), Streamtion £82.99 (£6.92).
• Twenty-four months: RoomateTV £89.99 (£3.75), VIPSATV £93.99 (£3.92), Clixwatch £112.99 (£4.71), Streamtion £116.99 (£4.87).

VIPSATV is cheapest at one and three months. RoomateTV is cheapest from six months on. Streamtion is the dearest over the longer terms.

A three-month plan is worth a thought for a Greek household that watches mostly at certain times of year. If your viewing picks up for a particular season, three months of VIPSATV at £28.99 costs less than three single months at £35.97. If you watch all year, the annual plans are where the value sits. Our monthly against annual comparison runs the full sums.

Connections for a Greek and English household

A connection is one stream playing at a time. The login can sit on several devices, but only as many will play together as the plan has connections. In a home where one person wants Greek programmes on the living-room TV while someone else watches English on a tablet, that is two connections at the busiest hour.

All four services sell multi-connection plans, with the options and prices on each plan page. Before you choose one, it is worth doing the sum the other way too. Two separate VIPSATV 12-month plans would come to £133.98 a year; two RoomateTV ones would be £125.98. Whichever is lower for your number of screens is the one to buy.

If grandparents watch on their own screen in the afternoon, when the Greek evening is under way, count that as a separate stream too. The time gap means Greek viewing and English viewing may not fall at the same hour, which can sometimes let one connection cover both. Check your household’s real timetable rather than guessing.

A trial day planned around Athens time

The trial runs for 24 hours without a card. Use them well:

• Start it mid-afternoon UK time. That puts the Greek evening, from around 17:00 to 22:00 in London, inside the window.
• Open the Greek group first. Look for your programmes before anything else.
• Check the guide for Greek script and the right time. Fix the offset if needed.
• Try catch-up on something that finished earlier. This is the check the time gap makes essential.
• Leave a channel running at your normal viewing hour. Only your own broadband can say how steady it is.

The free trial guide covers how each service’s trial starts.

Where we would start

VIPSATV first: the largest published catalogue and the lowest price for a month or three. Worth a look if you want to start small. RoomateTV second, for its lower price from six months on. Clixwatch and Streamtion are worth a trial if the Greek section at the first two does not have what you watch.

For the four compared beyond Greek, see our best IPTV services UK ranking.