Which feeds are truly 4K rather than upscaled, what your NBN line and hardware need to manage, and why a 4K stream can stutter while HD keeps running.
Plenty of services slap a 4K label on whatever they were already sending. The thing worth caring about is whether the broadcaster filmed the event in 4K in the first place, because upscaling adds pixels without adding a scrap of detail. The channels below are genuine Ultra HD feeds carried at a high bitrate, and each has an HD twin sitting beside it in the list for the nights your line is under pressure.
| What | Gets by on | Better with |
|---|---|---|
| NBN speed | 25 Mbps | NBN 50, wired |
| Device | Any 4K-capable box or TV | Fire TV 4K Max, Shield, Formuler Z11, Apple TV 4K |
| App | IPTV Smarters Pro | TiViMate with hardware decoding |
| Screen | 4K panel with HDMI 2.0 | 4K HDR panel |
| Term | Any Xerquvatv term; 4K is always included | |
$ 15 25 35 49 / 1 month
Averages $15.00 a month across the 1-month term Averages $25.00 a month across the 1-month term Averages $35.00 a month across the 1-month term Averages $49.00 a month across the 1-month term
$ 29 49 65 99 / 3 months
Averages $9.67 a month across the 3-month term Averages $16.33 a month across the 3-month term Averages $21.67 a month across the 3-month term Averages $33.00 a month across the 3-month term
$ 45 75 99 149 / 6 months
Averages $7.50 a month across the 6-month term Averages $12.50 a month across the 6-month term Averages $16.50 a month across the 6-month term Averages $24.83 a month across the 6-month term
$ 69 119 159 239 / 12 months
Averages $5.75 a month across the 12-month term Averages $9.92 a month across the 12-month term Averages $13.25 a month across the 12-month term Averages $19.92 a month across the 12-month term
Every term carries the identical 25,000+ channels and 120,000+ on-demand titles — what changes is how long you hold the line and how many screens run at once. Nothing renews on its own, nothing locks you in, and each term is backed for 7 days. Listed in Australian dollars (AUD).
On a 55-inch set or bigger, 4K earns its keep for the footy and for films. On a phone, a tablet or a small kitchen telly, HD looks the same to the eye and uses a quarter of the data — which matters if you are watching on a mobile plan. Xerquvatv lists the 4K, HD and SD versions of the main channels next to each other, so you pick per channel rather than per term. The Firestick guide has the decoder settings that keep 4K smooth.
The free 24-hour trial opens the whole 4K shelf.
Live television streamed at 3840 by 2160 — four times the detail of 1080p — over your ordinary NBN or mobile connection. Resolution is only half the story: bitrate counts at least as much, which is why a well-carried 4K feed looks sharper than a heavily squeezed one at the same resolution.
A steady 25 Mbps carries a single 4K stream; an NBN 50 plan is comfortable and leaves headroom for the rest of the house. Steadiness beats the headline number, and running the box off an Ethernet cable rather than wi-fi removes the most common cause of 4K stutter on its own.
A Fire TV Stick 4K Max, an Nvidia Shield, a Formuler Z11 Pro Max, an Apple TV 4K, or any 2019-or-later 4K set from Samsung, LG or Sony. Older Firesticks and budget Android boxes cap out at 1080p no matter what the stream is carrying.
No. Every term from one month to twelve carries the 4K feeds. There is no premium tier and no upgrade charge; the length of the term sets the monthly rate and the number of screens, and nothing else moves.
Not in any meaningful way, and we would rather say so plainly. Almost nothing is filmed in 8K, so anyone advertising thousands of 8K channels is upscaling and relabelling. A high-bitrate 4K feed is the sensible target, and it is what we actually send.
A 4K feed wants three to four times the bandwidth of HD, so it is the first to fall over when a line is marginal. Switch the player to hardware decoding, move the device onto Ethernet if it is on wi-fi, and keep the HD copy handy as a fallback during the evening peak.
