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Fetch TV – Everything You Need to Know

With so much talk and excitement around the various forms of streaming TV these days, it’s easy to overlook the fact that Fetch TV has been delivering streaming TV into an ever-growing number of homes since all the way back in 2010. With a clever business model that is built on close ties with internet providers, Fetch delivers access to a wide range of premium live TV channels and a comprehensive library of current movies & TV. With one of the best set–top boxes on the market, Fetch TV is steadily growing in popularity, now boasting over half a million users.

The market that Fetch TV arrived in was one dominated, when it came to subscription TV, by conventional broadcasting via cable and satellite. Competing with established pay TV services on their own turf is therefore almost impossible – it’s prohibitively expensive and takes many years to set up.

The obvious answer was to set up an IPTV service, using the Internet as the platform to deliver multiple TV channels entirely via streaming. But in a country like Australia back in 2010, that posed a major problem, with the vast majority of broadband users on ADSL and internet speeds an unpredictable thing. Fetch’s solution to this was to directly partner with an internet provider – and the one they chose was iiNet. Launching with 14 channels and a triple-tuner set top box that enabled receiving and recording of free to air television, Fetch set about carving a unique niche in the Australian TV landscape.

Continuing to add channels as the service grew in popularity, Fetch TV extended their partnerships with internet providers, adding Optus to the fold (which ultimately led to the creation of the Optus Sport service, delivered via the Fetch TV platform exclusively for Optus customers and offering live coverage of English Premier League football).

Fetch TV Advantages

One of the key advantages of Fetch TV’s way of doing things is its adaptability; it was the first pay TV provider to directly support Netflix streaming on its hardware, for example, and current Fetch boxes work just as well at streaming Netflix, Stan, hayu, YouTube, Prime Video, 10 All Access, and others as they do streaming premium channels or live TV.

Naturally, the various catch-up streaming services from all five free-to-air networks are fully supported as well – making Fetch TV an easy single-box solution that covers all your TV and streaming needs.

Much of the Fetch advantage comes from its low cost, too; unlike other pay TV options, there’s no expensive hardware installation needed for Fetch TV – the boxes (there are three different models these days) can be rented for a modest fee every month, or bought outright if you’d prefer while the newly released box with 4K feature is only available for outright purchase.