How to switch IPTV provider without losing a weekend

• Test at the time you actually watch. A trial that runs smoothly at 11am tells you nothing about 8pm on a Saturday.
• Open a 4K channel if you have a 4K screen. If that holds, everything below it will.
• Check catch-up and the guide, not just live channels — those are the parts that are usually missing on cheap services.
• Ask what happens when something breaks, and how quickly you get an answer.

Run both services for a few days. It costs a little and removes the one risk worth avoiding: a weekend with nothing to watch while a new service is sorted out.

Keep the old login until the new one has survived a full peak-time match. Then cancel, and only then.

Note the old playlist link, the username and any device MAC addresses before you cancel. If a refund or a query comes up, you will want them, and providers rarely make it easy to find afterwards.

A 24-hour trial with no card, setup help on every device you own, and a plan you can stop whenever you like. If the trial is not good enough, nothing is owed and nothing renews.