Lit IPTV
TV Guide, Catch-Up & Replay on Android TV & Fire TV
The Lit IPTV app for Android TV and Fire TV now has a redesigned program guide, catch-up replays you can start straight from the guide, a Continue Catch-up shelf, and a built-in stream quality checker. This guide walks through each one on the big screen, and it is honest about the single thing that decides how much of it you actually get: the guide data and the catch-up archive come from your IPTV provider, not from the player. Lit IPTV is a media player only. It does not include, host, or sell channels, subscriptions, guide data, or recordings, so you bring your own M3U or Xtream Codes playlist and Lit IPTV lays out whatever your provider supplies.
The redesigned TV guide on the big screen
Open Live TV and switch to the guide to see a cable-box style grid: a channel list down the left and a timeline of programmes across the top. The guide opens at the current time rather than dumping you at the start of the day, so what is on now is right there and you scroll left into earlier programmes or right into later ones. Navigation is built for a remote, with D-pad support throughout, and the now line marks the current moment across every row. Empty stretches show a clean No programme info placeholder instead of black gaps, and the date label updates as you scroll back through midnight so you always know which day you are looking at. The basic guide is free; it lays out whatever electronic programme guide your provider makes available.
Catch-up and replay live TV from the guide
Where your provider offers catch-up or archive, past programmes become replayable directly from the guide. Replayable blocks are highlighted in gold with a replay icon, so you can see at a glance what you can go back and watch, while past programmes that are not archived stay dimmed. Select a gold block and the programme starts playing from the beginning, and you can pause, seek and skip through it like a recording. Be clear about where this comes from: catch-up depends entirely on your provider archiving that channel, so if they do not offer catch-up for a programme, only current and upcoming listings are available. No player can invent an archive that the provider does not keep.
Continue Catch-up: pick up where you left off
When you start a replay and stop partway, it is saved to a Continue Catch-up shelf on the Home screen, separate from your movie and series resume points, so a burst of replays never pushes your films and shows out of Continue Watching. Reopen a replay from that shelf and it resumes exactly where you left off, with a broadcast clock in the player showing the moment in the programme. There is also an in-player replay switcher that lists the other archived programmes on the same channel, grouped by day, so you can jump between them without leaving the player. Resuming a replay is a Pro feature.
The built-in stream quality checker
Provider channel names love to claim FHD or 4K, but the real stream is often lower. The stream quality checker, on its own button on the player controls, shows the truth: it compares what the channel name claims against the resolution actually being decoded, and lists the real resolution, video codec, video and audio bitrate, frame rate, decoder (hardware or software) and buffer. If a channel labelled Full HD is really only 720p, you will see it, which makes it easy to pick the best source for a match or a movie. The quality checker is a Pro feature.
Setting it up on Android TV and Fire TV
On any Android TV or Google TV device (including many Sony Bravia, TCL, Hisense and Onn sets), install Lit IPTV from the Play Store and sign in with the short code shown on the TV that you type on your phone, so the playlist you already connected, guide data included, syncs across automatically. On an Amazon Fire TV or Firestick, sideload Lit IPTV using the free Downloader app with the code 9588685, or enter litiptv.com/litiptv.apk, then use the same phone-code sign-in so you never type on the remote. Once you are in, everything above, the guide, catch-up highlights, the Continue Catch-up shelf and the quality checker, is available with your synced playlist. Note that a Roku TV, a Samsung Tizen TV, an LG webOS TV or an Apple TV has no native Lit IPTV app yet, so on those you cast or AirPlay from your phone, or plug in a Firestick or Android TV box.
What depends on your provider (the honest part)
Two things are worth repeating because they cause most confusion. First, the guide is only as complete as the EPG your provider sends; connecting by Xtream Codes rather than a plain M3U link is the surest way to get full guide data, since Xtream Codes carries the EPG alongside the channels. Second, catch-up and replay only exist where your provider archives the channel, and how far back you can go is set by their retention, not by the app, which is why the guide only marks the recent, still-playable past as replayable. Lit IPTV reads and displays what your provider supplies and adds the interface, the highlights, the resume and the quality tools on top, but it never includes or generates channels, guide data, or recordings of its own.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What is catch-up and replay in Lit IPTV on Android TV?
Catch-up lets you replay a past live-TV programme straight from the guide, where your IPTV provider archives that channel. In Lit IPTV, replayable programmes are highlighted in gold in the TV guide; select one and it plays from the start with pause, seek and skip. It depends on the provider offering catch-up, since the app does not keep an archive of its own.
How do I replay a past programme?
Open Live TV, switch to the guide, and scroll left into earlier programmes. Any block highlighted in gold with a replay icon can be played back: select it and it starts from the beginning. If you stop partway, it is saved to the Continue Catch-up shelf on Home so you can resume where you left off.
Why are some past programmes greyed out and not replayable?
Because your provider is not archiving those programmes. Catch-up only exists where the provider keeps an archive of a channel, and how far back it goes is set by their retention. Lit IPTV marks only the recent, still-playable past in gold and dims everything older, so gold always means it should actually play.
Does catch-up work on Fire TV / Firestick?
Yes. Sideload Lit IPTV on your Fire TV using Downloader code 9588685, then sign in with the short code shown on the TV that you enter on your phone. Your playlist and guide data sync in the cloud, so the guide, catch-up highlights and Continue Catch-up shelf all appear on the Firestick with your account.
What does the stream quality checker show?
It shows a stream's real, decoded quality versus what the channel name claims: resolution (for example 1080p vs a Full HD claim), video codec, video and audio bitrate, frame rate, whether it is using a hardware or software decoder, and the buffer. It makes it easy to spot a channel that is labelled higher than it really is. It is a Pro feature.
Is catch-up free or a Pro feature?
The redesigned TV guide is free. Resuming catch-up replays and the stream quality checker are Pro features. You can subscribe to Pro in the Lit IPTV app on your phone with the same account, and it syncs to your Android TV or Firestick automatically.
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