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

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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

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