Has anyone had any experience with the octastream tv box.
A friend told me about it. Available at Amazon and Walmart for $299.
He said no other charges and he get tons of tv & movies!
Something seems fishey.
I want no part of the “pre-loaded” boxes. They may have content, but you have no control over any of it. I prefer to purchase what box I want, install what I want to install, purchase premium apps/sources, RD, etc all in my name and IPTV service providers of my own choosing. You would get no control of any of that in a box like this. Troy did a review of SuperBox or something like that (which is similar to this one) and it failed per Troy with flying colors. No thank you.
This is that similar box review: SuperBox Alternatives – Why You Should Avoid This Device
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I knew this was a real lot of garbage, but my friend didn’t know it was preloaded with IPTV that he has no control over.
Hate to bust his bubble, so just let him live in bliss!
He thinks it’s the greatest and no amount of reasoning can convince him otherwise.
As for me, I’ll stick withTroy and the advice of the “insiders” here!
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I got the Vsee box 3 plus and it works great.
Rarely do I get any problems and it streams better than my old Direct TV streaming box ever did.
I just ordered the latest OctaStream elite max and from the YouTube videos it looks like the greatest thing since powdered sugar !
It has a bevy of international channels and even has porn.
If the whole idea is about cutting the cord why should I care about control ?
Plus I have been able to side load anything I want on the plus with no issues.
I have a couple of those boxes. Well, there is a different name on them, but they all look identical and the specs are the same. Gave up on them due to their “updater” apps that need to be ran. So many tweaks had to be made to make the stupid things work. Gave up when I discovered Troypoint and all the info. Now my cheap ONN box works perfect for all my needs.
My brother in law as a superbox and thinks it’s the best on the planet. Well, that was until I showed him my ONN cheapo box and he did a big facepalm at how easy it is to use. LOL. Also, the ONN runs faster, is less glitchy, buffers less, and is FAR less confusing to use.
I bought one of these loaded boxes as an experiment about 4 years ago, figuring if I could get 3 to 4 years out of the IPTV service, that would at least pay for it. I ended up with a bit over 4 years of acceptable performance before service problems developed so at least I broke even. The thing about these devices is they usually have the cheaper hardware and specs on the market, although the one I got had 128 gbs of internal storage. All things considered, I wouldn’t buy another one of these loaded boxes and definitely prefer higher quality “empty” streaming devices instead.