SuperBox S1 Pro Review - The "free" live TV works well, but is this legal?

[Music] superbox so is this thing even for real is it legal and why is it more expensive than other android box things that's what we're going to talk about in today's video so superbox sent this to me asking me if i wanted to do a review on it i've had other people in the past asked me if i wanted to review android boxes and i've used a few of them and honestly i'm not really impressed with them but this one intrigued me because of the claim for free live tv and free video on demand so the real question is does it work and yes it actually does this works it has free live tv free video on demand we'll talk about the legality of this just here in a bit so one thing i do want to talk about the specs on this thing they're not really that impressive but the overall performance of this so far has worked fairly well it's been fairly responsive with the remote so it's not been too sluggish or horrible so this is an android box and all of the android features work as expected this even has root which is really cool i don't really want to talk about the features of this box so i want to kind of get down to the nitty gritty which is the live tv and the video on demand live tv it absolutely works and the navigation ports actually pretty good it's fairly intuitive and it works in a straightforward way and it works really well one thing that i know a lot of people would really like this for is live sports you can navigate through all of the live sports it even has a spanish and filipino tv that's kind of random but also kind of cool and this thing has more stations than i could count i just tried to scroll through all of them i don't watch a lot of live tv so i don't know what any of these are but it has so many stations on this thing and actually the video quality coming from the live tv is really quite good so video on demand that also works pretty well it's more or less what you would expect from other services like amazon prime or netflix or something like that it it doesn't have that kind of polish on it and most likely you'll end up searching for a video or tv shows and kind of just hope it has it and it has most of the popular things as for quality i've kind of seen hit and miss with quality some quality is really good some is not so great also closed captioning some of the movies have it some don't some of the tv has it i don't even know if it's possible to turn off closed captioning i haven't found a way but that's that's kind of interesting so let's get real for a minute how is it even possible for this to be legal with live tv it's just a one-time fee just paying for the hardware there's no monthly subscription or anything how is this legal so i actually reached out to the rep who asked me if i wanted to review this i didn't get a real straightforward answer if it was legal or not i went to the website and it states this watching a stream of movies tv shows sporting events won't violate us copyright law superbox is just like any other android tv box on the market we cannot control what software customers will use so this is actually true the hardware itself on this is perfectly legal that is what they're selling the fact that they have this in effect on their website is definitely a red flag though and when it comes down to it there's the blue tv and blue video on demand these are the two apps that let you watch live tv and video on demand and while if my memory searched correctly they're not actually installed on this box when you get it this is set up in a way that it's basically very easy to download and install those apps and the reality is you don't get live tv you don't get video on demand without those apps so the the claim that they have for live tv and video on demand is only true if you download those apps which yeah are they legal probably not so i'm not exactly sure what's going on here but i kind of suspect that the apps may even have built-in vpn that routes you to servers in china or something there's something going on i will let you decide for yourself how legal these apps are or are not i do want to talk about the price for this a bit these uh are selling on amazon for 300 to 400 and if you compare that with other android boxes with similar specs i mean you're looking around fifty to a hundred dollars so what is the big price difference what do you actually get when you pay that extra money for one thing i will say they've run a lot of updates on this so you will get hardware that has more regular software updates which is a good thing uh i think really the main thing though is the blue bot and blue live tv apps i've never seen these apps before i don't know how easy they are to get i am not going to look at getting them and installing them on other android devices but i suspect when you pay that extra money those apps are actually what you are paying for you're not going to get extra special performance with the hardware on this if you want just an android box you could certainly get something with better specs for a much much lower price so honestly this is kind of an interesting concept i i must admit i was actually quite impressed with the live tv and the video on demand as far as how well it worked don't necessarily recommend using it but overall this is as advertised um with the the caveat that it's probably not really legal if you install those apps that they advertise so uh i'm curious what your thoughts are on a box like this if you would ever use something like this yeah let me know in the comment section below i'll also have some links if you want to purchase this or or just look this up on the website and get more details so you can research for yourself thanks [Music] you

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Length: 7min 18sec (438 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 30 2020