Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and more on Tivo8k, from the serial to the cricket

Which language each channel speaks

The South Asian group names twenty channels. Almost every one of them broadcasts in a single language, so a minute with this table saves a lot of scrolling later:

Telugu and Malayalam have one named channel each, so if either is your main language, look beside Gemini and Asianet during the trial. And the Hindi film channels air plenty of South Indian and Hollywood films dubbed into Hindi, so a film you know in Tamil or English may turn up there with Hindi voices.

The South Asian channels on Tivo8k, by name

• Colors
• Sony TV
• Zee TV
• Star Plus
• Sony Max
• Zee Cinema
• Star Gold
• Sun TV
• Vijay TV
• Zee Tamil
• KTV
• Gemini
• Asianet
• Hum TV
• Geo TV
• ARY
• PTV
• NTV Bangla
• Sony Sports
• Star Sports 1–3

Cricket on Tivo8k, and whose commentary you hear

In many South Asian homes the sports channels matter more than any serial. Cricket reaches the list through several groups, each with commentators of its own, wherever that broadcaster holds the match:

• Star Sports 1–3 and Sony Sports, the Indian networks. Indian broadcasters have often produced one match in several commentary languages, English and Hindi above all, sometimes as separate channels and sometimes as extra audio tracks on one feed.
• Sky Sports Cricket, in the United Kingdom sport group, with British commentary.
• Fox Sports 501–507 in the Australia and New Zealand group, and SuperSport 1–13 in the Africa group.

On match day, open the game, give it a few seconds, then open the audio menu. If a Hindi track sits beside the English one, switch; if there is only one, try another broadcaster in the list, if one carries the match. No series, tournament or match is promised, because rights move between broadcasters each season. Tivo8k cricket and the other sports sets out which networks sit in which group.

Films and series: Hindi, Tamil and English tracks

Live film channels play each film in the language they air it in: Hindi on Star Gold, Zee Cinema and Sony Max, Tamil on KTV. The on-demand library of 120,000+ titles is where the choice widens. Where an Indian film was supplied with more than one soundtrack, a Tamil original beside a Hindi dub for instance, you will find either two labeled entries or two tracks inside one title. English subtitles follow the same title-by-title pattern there, while live channels mostly send none. Check two or three films you actually want during the trial before counting on either.

Choosing the track in IPTV Smarters Pro and TiviMate

1. Sign in with the Xtream Codes details from your WhatsApp chat, not the M3U link. The Xtream route passes each stream’s audio and subtitle list to the player; a bare playlist often does not.
2. Start the channel or film and let it settle for a few seconds, since some players only read the tracks once playback has begun.
3. Open the track menu. In IPTV Smarters Pro the audio and subtitle buttons usually appear on the overlay when you tap the screen or press the center button. In TiviMate they sit in the playback menu instead. Layouts move between versions, so treat these as directions rather than exact paths.
4. Read the labels. Tracks are often named with short codes such as hin, tam, urd or eng, and sometimes just Track 1 and Track 2. When they are unnamed, play each for a few seconds.

Each sign-in is shown screen by screen in the IPTV Smarters Pro walkthrough for Tivo8k and in the TiviMate setup guide.

Three languages, one Tivo8k account

In plenty of South Asian homes abroad, three languages share one television budget: grandparents on an Urdu drama, a parent on a Hindi serial, teenagers on anything in English. One plan handles it, since each screen picks its own channel and track. Two screens cost $25 a month or $119 a year; three cost $35 or $159; five, for a large joint family, $49 or $239. Each term is paid once and nothing renews, as Tivo8k plans for two, three or five screens lays out.

Prime time arrives in the afternoon

India keeps UTC+5:30 all year, Pakistan UTC+5 and Bangladesh UTC+6, and none of them changes its clocks. A serial at 8 p.m. in Mumbai therefore airs at 2:30 p.m. in London in winter, 3:30 p.m. in summer, and mid-morning in Toronto. The guide converts listings to your clock, as the Tivo8k EPG page explains. On channels that keep an archive, catch-up replay lets the evening viewer start that serial from the top hours later.

What the South Asian list does not cover

• Punjabi, Kannada, Marathi, Gujarati, Sinhala and Nepali are not named as languages in our list. If one of them is what your family watches, ask before you pay.
• Bengali rests on one named channel, NTV Bangla from Bangladesh; channels from West Bengal are not named.
• No Pakistani sports channel is named, so we cannot point you to cricket with Urdu commentary.
• No children’s channel in a South Asian language is named. The kids’ channels in the list are English and French.

Send the exact channel name on WhatsApp and support will say plainly whether it is there. The other groups, country by country, are in the complete Tivo8k channel list.

Other languages on Tivo8k

All of them on one page: Languages.