Trex IPTV planning guides, taken in the order a household needs them
This section gathers the five guides that do the deciding before anyone opens the order page. They are arranged in the sequence that tends to save the most second thoughts: the screens first, then the money, then the line-ups, then three real-shaped homes, and finally what happens between paying and the first evening of watching.
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A slow lap of the house with a notepad comes before every other decision. Note who uses each screen and when, then strike out the ones that never play while another is playing; whatever survives is the number of lines to buy.
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Fix a figure the household would be comfortable spending over twelve months, then fit the screens, the term lengths and the timing of each purchase inside it. The guide also covers the two habits that push budgets over and the one place families tend to spend too little.
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Picking between the three line-ups comes down to the person holding the remote rather than the postcode: who follows North American sport, who wants British and European television, and who mostly watches Arabic programmes. Read it viewer by viewer if your home is split.
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A couple sharing one television, a family of five with three screens busy at eight o'clock, and a group of tenants who move out in June. Pick whichever looks most like home and adjust the numbers rather than the method.
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Ordering is the short part once the shape is settled: the details arrive when the payment clears, each screen is set up once, and one person looks after the records. It finishes with the two small jobs a settled household keeps repeating.
None of these pages asks you to look at prices first. When the counting is done, the plans page sets the five term lengths side by side, so the figure you reach can be checked against the ceiling you wrote down at the start. Compare the five term lengths.
Worked out what you need?
Once you know how many screens and which line-ups, setting it up takes about a minute.