You can also just run a docker that emulates hd home run with an iptv subscription. $30-40 a year on z2u and you get basically every channel in the world

It’s really only necessary if you want fairly reliable access to sports, local news channels, and/or want to see live tv actually live though. And if you want to use Jellyfin rather than a proper iptv client like tivimate or uhf you’ll need something that can customize the playlist to skip 95% of the channels. Iptv usually comes with literal thousands of channels. iptv applications are fine with but live tv in Jellyfin is an afterthought so once you get past 1-200 channels or so it can really make shit drag to a crawl. Tbf this makes navigation of the guide easier, you don’t have 10,000 foreign language channels you’ll never watch to scroll through, but if you’re watching for sports it can be a pain bc a lot of providers add and delete channels for specific game streams so you might have to constantly edit the playlist to add game channels and prune dead streams. Though I think there are some projects like teamarr that try to mitigate this