Imax IPTV Channel List — 22,000+ Live Channels

What is actually in the Imax IPTV channel list?

The honest answer is that a channel count on its own tells you very little. Twenty-two thousand channels sounds impressive until you discover that eight thousand of them are duplicated feeds of the same handful of networks, or test streams that have not worked in a year. What matters is whether the specific channels you care about are present, whether they run at a quality worth watching, and whether they stay online during the hours you actually use them.

So rather than publishing a spreadsheet of every call sign, this page explains how the lineup is structured, what each section contains, and how to confirm a particular channel before you spend anything.

Sports channels

Sport is the reason most people move to IPTV in the first place, and it is where a weak provider is exposed fastest. A stream that looks perfect on a Tuesday afternoon means nothing if it collapses at kick-off on Saturday, when every subscriber in the country is watching the same fixture.

The Imax IPTV sports section covers the major European football leagues — the Premier League, the Championship, the Champions League and Europa League, La Liga, Serie A, the Bundesliga and Ligue 1 — usually with several feeds per fixture so you can pick a commentary language or switch if one stream stutters.

North American sport is covered through the ESPN family, regional sports networks, and the league packages that carry NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL games. Motorsport includes Formula 1 and MotoGP across practice, qualifying and race sessions. Combat sport covers UFC numbered events and championship boxing, including most of the pay-per-view cards that would otherwise be an additional purchase.

Beyond the headline leagues you will find tennis across all four Grand Slams, cricket including international tours and the major domestic T20 competitions, rugby union and league, golf majors, cycling grand tours, darts, snooker and a steady supply of niche competitions that terrestrial broadcasters ignore.

Movie channels and the on-demand library

Two separate things sit under the heading of films, and it is worth understanding the difference.

The first is live movie channels: the premiere channels, the genre channels showing action, comedy, horror and classics, and the regional film channels that run continuously. These behave like television — you join whatever is playing.

The second is video on demand, and this is where the 120,000-title figure comes from. The VOD library is a catalogue you browse and play at will, organised by genre, release year and popularity. New cinema releases are added as they become available, and the catalogue includes both current titles and a deep back catalogue.

Series are handled the same way. Rather than catching an episode mid-run on a live channel, you open the series section, choose a show, and get every season and every episode listed. Nothing is charged per title.

Entertainment, documentary and lifestyle

This is the broadest section and the hardest to summarise. It contains the general entertainment networks from each country, the reality and competition formats, the documentary channels covering history, science and nature, plus lifestyle programming from cooking to property to motoring. If you currently pay for a cable package, most of what you flick through in the evening lives here.

Kids and family

Children's channels are grouped separately so they are quick to reach and easy to keep an eye on. The section carries the main international cartoon networks, pre-school channels aimed at younger viewers, educational programming, and family film channels. Because the section is self-contained, handing a tablet to a child does not mean handing over the whole lineup.

News, business and weather

Rolling news is one of the strongest arguments for IPTV over a national cable package. Instead of one or two domestic news channels, you get the major international networks side by side — which is genuinely useful when a story is being covered differently in different countries. The section includes English-language international news, national news channels from dozens of countries, dedicated business and markets channels, and weather services.

International and regional bouquets

For viewers living away from home, this is usually the deciding section. Imax IPTV carries Arabic bouquets including the beIN Sports networks, MBC and OSN; Turkish national channels; Indian and Pakistani channels across Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil and Urdu; Latin American networks from Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Colombia; Balkan channels from the former Yugoslavia; Scandinavian channels; Polish and Romanian bouquets; and channels from across South-East Asia.

These are carried in their original languages, with local commentary rather than a dubbed international feed.

Quality, EPG and catch-up

Channels run at 4K where the source provides it, Full HD across the majority of the lineup, and SD on older or lower-bandwidth feeds. Your player will usually let you pick a preferred quality where more than one version exists.

A full electronic programme guide covers the vast majority of channels, giving you the familiar now-and-next grid rather than a bare list of names. Many channels also carry catch-up, typically covering the last few days, so starting late does not mean missing the programme entirely.

How to confirm a specific channel before you buy

This is the most practical advice on this page. Broadcasters rename channels, move frequencies and occasionally disappear, so any static list published today starts decaying immediately. Rather than trusting a document, do one of two things.

• Ask us directly. Message live chat or WhatsApp with the exact channel name and the country it broadcasts from. We will tell you whether it is currently carried, which bouquet it sits in and what quality it runs at.
• Take a free trial. A 24-hour trial line loads the real, current lineup on your own device. You can search for your channels, check them at peak time, and see the EPG populate — all before any money changes hands.

A note on realistic expectations

How many channels do you actually need?

It is worth pausing on this, because the industry has trained everyone to shop by channel count and that number is close to meaningless. Studies of television viewing habits have consistently found that households watch somewhere between twelve and twenty channels regularly, regardless of how many they receive. The other several hundred exist to make a package look larger.

What that means practically is that you should not choose a provider on whether it advertises 18,000 or 25,000 channels. You should choose on whether the fifteen channels your household actually watches are present, stable, and available in decent quality at the times you watch them. A service carrying 8,000 well-maintained channels is worth more than one listing 30,000 where a third are dead.

This is also why we encourage a trial rather than a longer channel list. Fifteen minutes checking your own must-watch channels tells you more than any document we could write.

Understanding bouquets and how the list is organised

When your player finishes loading, the lineup is grouped into what the industry calls bouquets — essentially folders. Understanding the naming convention makes a large list far easier to navigate.

Most bouquets are prefixed with a country code or region: UK, US, CA, FR, DE, AR for Arabic, and so on. Within each country the bouquets split by genre — UK Sports, UK Entertainment, UK Kids, UK News. Some channels also carry a quality suffix such as FHD, HD or SD, and occasionally a source marker.

The practical tip most new users miss: nearly every IPTV player lets you hide bouquets you will never use. If you only watch UK and US channels, hiding the other fifty groups turns an intimidating list into something that behaves like a normal television. In TiviMate this is under Playlist settings; in IPTV Smarters it is in the layout options. Doing this once, on the first evening, transforms the experience.

Favourites, search and getting to what you watch

Every recommended player supports a favourites list, and it is the single best five minutes you can spend after setup. Mark your fifteen or twenty regular channels and set the player to open on that list, and you will rarely touch the full lineup again.

Search is the other tool worth knowing. Rather than scrolling for a channel, most players let you type part of a name. Searching for a broadcaster name usually reveals every regional variant and quality version at once, which is the fastest way to find the specific feed you want.

What happens when a channel goes down

Being straightforward here matters more than marketing copy. Channels do occasionally stop working. A broadcaster changes an encryption key, moves a satellite feed, or an upstream source drops out. When that happens, the channel either returns within minutes or is replaced with an alternative source.

What you should expect from a provider is not a perfect record — nobody has one — but a fast, honest response. Report the channel by name in live chat and we will tell you whether it is a known issue, whether an alternative feed exists in another bouquet, and roughly when it should return. If a channel is genuinely gone for good, we will say so rather than leaving a dead entry in the list.

No IPTV provider carries every channel on earth, and any service claiming otherwise is overselling. Channels occasionally drop when an upstream source changes, and are usually restored or replaced quickly. What separates a service worth paying for is not a perfect record but how fast the gap is closed and whether support answers when you report it. That is the standard we ask to be judged on.