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Nightmare TV

Native Windows / Android TV / macOS IPTV player on libmpv — BT.2390 HDR tone-mapping, Atmos/DTS-X passthrough, 4-stream multi-view, DVR recording, channel editor, parental controls, TMDB info. Bring your own Xtream/M3U playlist. 14-day trial.

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Cost / License

  • Pay once or Subscription
  • Proprietary

Application types

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Android TV  Sideload via Downloader app or USB stick (no Play Store yet — closed test recruiting). Auto-detected remote profiles for Onn 4K Pro (channel-up/down fix), Shield, Fire TV, Mi Box, Chromecast with Google TV. v1.6.0+.
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Features

Properties

  1.  Privacy focused
  2.  Support for Themes

Features

  1.  End-to-End Encryption
  2.  No registration required
  3.  No Tracking
  4.  Portable
  5.  Ad-free
  6.  Picture in Picture
  7.  Hardware Accelerated
  8.  Cloud Sync
  9.  Lossless Audio
  10.  Dark Mode
  11.  Support for 4K
  12.  Watch Live TV
  13.  Android tv
  14.  Support for IPTV
  15.  MultiView
  16.  HDR Support

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Nightmare TV information

  • Developed by

    Tevfik Çapar

  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Commercial product.

  • Pricing

    One time purchase that costs $79, and / or subscription ranging between $3 and $6 per month.

  • Alternatives

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  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Arabic
    • Turkish
    • German
    • Russian
    • Spanish
    • Italian
    • Portuguese
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What is Nightmare TV?

Live on the Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/9PLPLGHTVB5G — one-click install with auto-updates. Product ID: 9PLPLGHTVB5G.

Nightmare TV is a premium native IPTV / live-TV player for Windows 10/11, Android TV/Fire TV, and macOS, built on a libmpv 2026 playback engine. Where ExoPlayer- and VLC-based competitors stutter on 4K HEVC + DTS, Nightmare delivers studio-grade decoding plus real BT.2390 HDR tone-mapping (per-frame peak detect, gamut desaturate) across platforms. Bring-your-own-playlist: M3U / Xtream Codes / XMLTV. Player only — no content.

CURRENT VERSION: v2.0.11 (July 2026). Recent highlights:

  • Android TV D-pad navigation rebuilt from the root cause (Live TV no longer traps focus on later pages; sidebar focus now clearly visible).
  • Black-screen auto-recovery on Android TV, now actually working in release builds; two new manual video-compatibility modes for stubborn GPU drivers.
  • Windows: fixed live playback freezing after the window lost focus, plus a ground-truth pixel-based freeze detector.
  • Large feature batch: on-device recommendations, unified cross-playlist search, voice search, Live Sports Radar, Playlist Time Machine, Rewind Live, Panic/Quick-Hide Mode, LAN remote-control system, opt-in diagnostics dashboard.
  • Crypto payment option; macOS credentials moved to Keychain; RAM-based lite tier for low-memory Fire TV Stick.
  • Fire TV Cube support fixed (remote/D-pad, hardware decode, activation state); 60-second guided setup wizard; zero-paste activation.

CORE ENGINE & FEATURES:

  • libmpv 2026 native: HEVC Main10, AV1, VP9, VC-1, DTS-HD MA, EAC3, AAC, PGS subs.
  • Dolby Atmos / DTS-X / TrueHD bitstream passthrough over HDMI (WASAPI exclusive, Windows).
  • Hardware-accelerated decode (D3D11VA on Windows, platform decoder on Android TV), GPU shader cache.
  • Built-in XMLTV EPG, multi-day timeline, scheduled per-program recording (works even on single-connection accounts).
  • Multi-view (4 streams), Picture-in-Picture, M3U Editor (non-destructive rename/regroup).
  • Profiles + PIN + child mode. Cloud Sync — AES-256-GCM end-to-end encrypted across Windows / Android TV / macOS.
  • Country grouping, unified smart search across Xtream connections, natural-language EPG search, TMDB metadata, M3U dedup on load.

Pricing: Gumroad (Merchant of Record). Monthly $5.99 or yearly $29 subscription; lifetime $39 (1 device) or $55 (3 devices, summer sale — normally $79). 14-day full-feature trial, no card. 14-day money-back guarantee. Sold on Gumroad, Microsoft Store, and (Android TV) GitHub Releases.

Privacy: no accounts; anonymous aggregate onboarding milestones only — no playlists, no viewing history. License delivered by email after purchase.

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