Tivo8k catch-up: rewind live TV, then choose how it sounds

Catch-up on Tivo8k turns live television into something you can start late. For each channel that carries it, our servers hold a rolling record of recent broadcasts, and a catch-up-aware player can start any program inside it from the first frame. Every plan includes it, beside 25,000+ channels running live.

Two limits apply. Replay exists only on the channels configured to keep an archive, not across the whole line-up, and each of those holds its own amount of past broadcast, which differs between channels and can change. That is why this page quotes no number of days.

Finding the Tivo8k channels that keep an archive

The set is configured channel by channel and moves, so check rather than assume:

1. Look beside the channel name. Players that support replay usually flag archived channels with a small symbol, often a clock or a curved arrow, next to the name or inside the guide grid. Unflagged channels still show what they aired earlier, but selecting those entries does nothing.
2. Rewind during the trial. The Tivo8k free trial runs for 24 hours with the archive switched on, so you can go back on the channels you care about before paying.
3. Ask a person. Message support on WhatsApp with the channel name; they can say whether it carries replay at the moment.

Where replay sits in your player

Catch-up is a player feature as much as a server one, and your sign-in method decides whether the player learns that an archive exists. With the Xtream Codes details, the app can ask the server which channels hold past broadcasts; a plain M3U link often arrives without that information, and the replay option never appears. Our Xtream Codes walkthrough explains each field. Menus move between versions, so treat these as directions:

• TiviMate. Replay lives in the TV guide. On a marked channel, scroll back past the current time, highlight a finished program and select it; many versions also offer to restart one still on air. The steps to add your login to TiviMate use the route catch-up depends on.
• IPTV Smarters Pro. It depends on the build. Some give replay a home-screen tile where you pick the channel, then the date, then the program; others open past programs from the guide layout inside Live TV. The IPTV Smarters Pro setup covers the sign-in.
• Anything else. Patchy: some apps draw last night’s listings without being able to play them.

Replaying a match or a film with the sound you choose

This matters most in a house that cares how television sounds. Whatever the broadcaster packed into the feed (a second commentary, an original-language track beside a dub, an audio-described track, a subtitle stream) normally travels with the replay. Every step below is conditional twice over: the channel has to have sent the option, and the app has to show it.

A match, from the first whistle

The game kicked off while you were still on the road. If its channel keeps an archive, step back to its listing in the guide and start it from kickoff. Once it plays, bring up the audio menu: when the broadcaster supplied more than one commentary, the choices sit there, and switching works as it does live. If the feed carries one track only, look through the Tivo8k sports line-up for another broadcaster showing the same competition with its own commentary, which may or may not be archived.

A film, from the opening scene

A film channel began at eight and you sat down at a quarter to nine. Restart it from the beginning, then visit two menus: audio, for an original-language soundtrack aired beside the dub, and subtitles, for a broadcast subtitle stream your player can draw. Live channels send subtitles less often than library titles carry them, so an empty menu points to the feed or the app, not to a setting you missed.

Catch-up, the library or a recording: which one fits

Catch-up handles live broadcasts you missed by hours, on archived channels, until each program drops off the back of the archive.

The on-demand library handles films and series whenever you want them. Nothing there airs at a set time, so nothing expires, and it is where the widest spread of audio tracks and subtitles tends to be.

A recording handles what you mean to keep. In TiviMate it belongs to the Premium tier, and whether every audio and subtitle track survives in the file depends on the app. While it records it uses one of your plan’s screens, so a single-screen account cannot record one channel while you watch another. If that matters, compare plans by number of screens before you order.

When Tivo8k catch-up shows nothing

Go down the list in order.

1. Do live channels play? If they stall too, the archive is not the issue: see what to check when Tivo8k is not working.
2. Is the channel marked? No symbol means no archive, and its earlier entries are for information only.
3. How did you sign in? If the account came from the M3U link, add it again with the Xtream Codes details from the WhatsApp chat.
4. Is the guide loaded, and on the right hour? A replay is requested by start time, so an empty grid leaves nothing to select and a wrong time zone opens the replay in the wrong place. Getting the Tivo8k TV guide right explains loading, refreshing and the offset.
5. Is the program still held? If something from an hour ago opens on the same channel and the older one does not, it has aged out.
6. Can the app do it? If the program opens in TiviMate or IPTV Smarters Pro but not in your usual app, the app is what is missing.

If a recent program on a marked channel still refuses, message WhatsApp with the channel, the program and the time it aired.