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There's more streaming via the Internet than you might realize, but you can tune in to everything from anywhere in the world with the vSeeBox V5 Pro Live TV Streaming Device. Tech expert Dave Taylor walks you through an unboxing and initial setup, including demonstrating a variety of key features and live demos. It's an impressive device.
Disclaimer: As with any Android set top box, you can use this in a variety of ways, some of which might be more, or less, legal than others. Please be thoughtful in how you use the vSeeBox device.
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0:00 Introduction
2:00 Unboxing with Close-Ups
3:41 The Remote Control
6:23 Device Setup and Configuration
8:30 On-Screen Feature Exploration
9:32 Video on Demand (VOD) Service
12:15 Live Streaming Options
13:31 Settings and YouTube
15:07 Disney+
15:44 Commentary and Conclusions
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the latest generation streaming box
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let's check this
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[Music]
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out Dave Taylor here with my little Vio
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TV and Vio like so many television
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makers have their own built-in operating
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system which gives you access to a fair
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number of streaming channels but this
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gives us a whole another level of access
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this is the VC box V5 Pro so this is
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their fifth generation device they have
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gone through a lot of evolution since
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they first introduced their product
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about what three years ago and this one
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is a live TV streaming box in the
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industry jargon they call it an OT ipv
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and Ott stands for for no reason I can
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understand over the top it means that
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you can stream directly from the
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internet you don't need to cable you
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don't need an antenna just as long as
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you have a good internet connection this
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thing will interface between your
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internet and your television and give
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you a ton of features and ipv is IP
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television or Internet Protocol so the
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unit runs Android 12 it's a quad core
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arm processor with 4 gig of RAM 32 gig
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of storage and an external USB you can
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plug in it's separate purchase up to 2
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TBT for additional store storage or an
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archive of movies and TV shows that you
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really like so there's more to talk
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about this but I wanted to go through
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the whole unboxing and setup experience
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so I have my unboxing tool be careful if
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you try this at home and it's easy
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enough just obviously cut through the
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plastic I'm sure we've all done this
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plenty of times and we'll go ahead and
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see what's in the
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box one thing right off the bat is I
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like that they have little tiny cutouts
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for your fingers it's a tiny simple
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little feature that makes a world of
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difference when you're unboxing things
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so Props to them for that and then the
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main unit this is actually surprisingly
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small you can see that it's about 4 in
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around and maybe an inch thick and then
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the ports on it let's see it is a V5 Pro
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8K ultra high definition is what it says
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on the front and on the side there is a
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space for a Micro SD card also known as
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a thin film or TF card and there's two
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usba ports and on the back there is
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ethernet and audio visual out and
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Optical out and HDMI out and source for
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your power and of course there's also a
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little tiny antenna option there's going
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to be a lot more in this box let's see
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what else we have so we have a power
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supply that's pretty
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straightforward and then on the other
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side of this we have all right see it's
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underneath oh there's lots of stuff
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under here so there's this 8K HDMI cable
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and I can just pop the ends off because
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we won't need them and then there is a
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tiny antenna so you can put this on and
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that gives you access to some local
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broadcast channels and then we have a
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very nice big remote control there's a
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lot of options here with let me open
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this up shortcut buttons
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for YouTube Netflix Amazon Prime video
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and Disney on the bottom here's a
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closeup put it sideways so you can see
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things bigger but you can see on the top
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there's input options and then there's
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numbers so you can go straight to a
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favorite Channel there's a very typical
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round navigation button and a home
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button and there's a microphone button
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because it allows voice input which is
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fantastic and volume and channel and
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then there looks like those four colored
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buttons are probably user assignable for
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favorite channels and then those those
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four shortcuts for YouTube Netflix Prime
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video and Disney now one thing that I
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did not plan ahead with is that I need
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two AAA batteries and I'm going to also
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need to figure out how to open it I bet
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it goes like this well well I'll put
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batteries in in a moment we'll get there
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but in the box is
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also instructions so that's everything
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that comes in the box and that's pretty
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darn nice so I'm going to go ahead and
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put this box over here to get it out of
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the way and let's maybe move the Vio a
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little bit so rather than use the
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instructions I'm just going to plug the
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darn thing in so let's just see what
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happens so we need to give this power so
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I just happen to have a power cord in
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the back here
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and so now we have that
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and typically setup is going to take
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about five or 10 minutes so probably I
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will be skipping past a couple of the
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more unexciting parts but let's get
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there and see what happens so let's
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see here's my power and we'll plug it in
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and then I'll use the
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HDMI to connect it to my television
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and then I'll have to actually switch
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the input on my Vio so we can actually
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see what the device is sharing with us
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so let's get this un stretched out and I
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will plug this into the
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HDMI and then plug it into my
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television let's see I think we want
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this one
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HDMI1 and then while we're at it why not
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let's go ahead and add that antenna
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so I'll screw that on and then just tilt
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it up and we will hope that that
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actually is
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Meaningful so now let me switch things
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around so you can see what's on the
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screen better and I'll also take
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advantage of this moment to add those
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AAA batteries to the remote control so
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I'll be right back all right batteries
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are in the remote and we're ready to
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switch inputs to HDMI 1 so let's just go
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go to V5 Pro how about that the TV's
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already identified the
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device and now we need to pair the
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remote control with the unit so I'm
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going to
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hold volume down and okay at the same
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time there we go now the remote control
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set up I'm going to pick English
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USA and we'll go next and I'll take this
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but notice that these are all the
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resolution options that's because my
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television that I'm using isn't actually
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a 4K unit they don't make 4K units this
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small so when you plug it into a higher
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resolution television you'll also get a
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higher resolution option
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here and let's see scale 95% we want to
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make sure that those little corner white
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angles are all visible and that all
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looks good so we'll keep moving
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and we are in oh boy this is going to
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take a while for me to find where I am
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cuz we're in GMT +
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5 or actually are we minus five I think
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I'm going in the wrong direction let's
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do Min -
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5 no minus 6 go M daylight time okay
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we're good there now I'm going to use
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Wifi so I'll have to set it up for Wi-Fi
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and I'll come right back once I've
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logged
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in let's see if we'll connect to the
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wireless
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network it is Wi-Fi 6 compatible which
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is good because I have a Wi-Fi 6E mesh
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Network and it looks like it worked with
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it and there's a disclaimer and
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basically they're saying that you use
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this the way you want they are simply
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providing you the hardware I can agree
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with that setting complete okay and what
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happens next and here we go here's the
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home screen so now you can see that
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there are
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pre-installed common and popular
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streaming options we'll get back to
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those and then there are some other
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options you can use including air screen
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which I believe is
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for AirPlay let's see so this would be
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how you would use with okay so AirPlay
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uh chomecast mirrorcast DLNA all of
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those that's really cool but I'm going
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to actually press the home button on the
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remote to get back here and then the
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service they have is called Heat Ultra
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and that offers over 1,300 live
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channels and it gives you HD and 4K
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video on demand content a program guide
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and 7-Day playback so let's see we have
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Heat live we have heat video on demand
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and we have Heat Ultra so let's do Heat
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Ultra and looks like that might need to
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be
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installed looks like we're in the
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installation process and it's receiving
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initial data and notice that the little
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VC box V5 Pro itself is showing me the
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current time and there's a tiny blue
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light that indicates that it is
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successfully working which is great so
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now let's see so it's Ultra so let's see
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what movies there are and so it shows me
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content from different services that
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doesn't mean I have access to them of
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course but some of them are actually
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free so like Pluto TV is free so let's
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choose this and then I'll use and again
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I'm just using the directional arrows on
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the remote and let's choose action genre
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and let's say last year's movies
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and I have to admit I have not heard of
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any of these but let's choose H
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Mulan and now I'm going to press
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play and let's see if it works and I
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actually have my TV muted so let's
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unmute
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it and that's a beautiful picture and it
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was mighty easy to get here so now
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let's go
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back
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and that was movies let's go to TV
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series and see what's on
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there and again we have all these
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options let's just choose
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peacock and go
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to um well not a big fan of most of
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these series but we'll pick Night Court
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and let's just see so this is season 3
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and I'll pick this
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episode
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and I'm unclear whether it will want me
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to log in apparently it doesn't how cool
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is that great well this looks genuinely
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not
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enjoyable sorry that's my taste um so
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now the question would be what do we
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have for live streaming and that let's
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see speed
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test and I don't understand what this is
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on the right so let's choose it and it
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looks like that is just a show that
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they're highlighting so let's go back
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out of video on
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demand and so that's that so let's go to
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Heat live and again it'll probably need
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to do a quick install and this only
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happens the first time you use one of
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these
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and allow Heat live to access photos
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media and files on your device I'll say
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don't allow for now oh I see so I push
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down and it changes what channel I'm on
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but if I choose okay then I can get a
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list of all
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channels and I'm going to actually mute
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this because I don't have rebc right so
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that'll take care of that and now let's
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see so here here's all the different
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program options or Channel options and
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let's see AMC West American movie
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classics
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and well it looks like I actually have
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this channel which is interesting
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because I don't subscribe to it so I
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think part of what VC box is offering
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and this is why they have that
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disclaimer is that they might have
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reverse engineered some of these
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streaming channels so that you have
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access to content that you otherwise
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wouldn't so that's pretty interesting so
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there's system settings Launcher
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settings software update always a good
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thing to do and let's look at system
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info so not a lot of exciting
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information there but this looks pretty
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slick and I will go let's just go into
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YouTube and try that
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option and this is familiar to everyone
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I'm sure and I'm not going to sign in
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I'm just going to go to home oh maybe it
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insists that I do that let's go to
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music um so looks like I can just ignore
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the signin part and I can just step
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through and we can find sure let's try
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Santa Claus is coming to town and again
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I do have this muted so let me unmute
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for a second and of course we have
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ads and it's all absolutely beautiful
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and you can see there's zero lag with
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any of this streaming which is great
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I've REM muted it until the ad's over
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I'm not a big fan of advertising and I
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know I have ads on my
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channel um so let's just get to the
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actual uh
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video
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and okay so that works apparently I have
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have actually chosen a video that's not
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a video it's just a still image which is
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actually kind of funny um but you can
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see that there's an enormous amount of
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flexibility and since I didn't have to
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sign in to TCM let's just see if I have
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to sign in to Disney I would assume I do
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but let's see what happens sorry Disney
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plus not
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Disney so here I can sign up or sign
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into my existing account and then access
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it through this set toop box but let's
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go back to
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home and that's all the key features let
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me jump back on camera and give you a
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little bit more on the specs I have to
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admit I'm really impressed that was easy
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to set up it didn't require me entering
15:47
a credit card or anything and it was
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pretty darn easy to navigate as a
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complete newbie and figure out what was
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where with a little bit of practice
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maybe an hour of just laying on the
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couch and pushing different buttons to
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see what happens I would become an
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absolute Pro and be able to jump to all
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my favorite channels and do some of that
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programming on the remote that might be
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OB uh might be an option I don't know I
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haven't tried it yet but let me tell you
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a little bit more about the Box itself
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so as I said it's a quad core arm
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processor with 4 gig of RAM 32 gig of
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onboard storage so those shows I was
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watching I could have recorded how cool
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is that and there's those USBS on the
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side they're both usba but I can plug in
16:31
up to 2 terabyt of additional storage so
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I could just pick a movie channel for
16:37
example and just record record record
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record and then go to that DVR feature
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and watch it anytime I want it decodes
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h264 10bit HDR so as you saw every
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single image I watched was crystal clear
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it looked beautiful there was Zero
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buffering very impressive actually um it
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can do 6K at 60 frames per second or if
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I had a more capable television 4K Ultra
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HDR Wi-Fi 6 Bluetooth 5.0 so it does do
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Bluetooth which should allow you to hook
17:12
up a pair of bluetooth headphones and
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then watch and listen to content without
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bothering anyone else this is
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particularly useful if you like to watch
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shows late at night and not bother
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anyone else in the house big win with
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Bluetooth and then finally we also saw
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that Heat Ultra and the Heat live and
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the heat video on demand Services which
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are a way to consolidate all of the many
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many many live channels that they have
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and as you saw a lot of video on demand
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content including what looks like it's
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from a lot of pay channels some of which
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required me to log in like I couldn't
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get to Disney plus but some of which
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like AMC was available so that's pretty
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slick now disclaimer I am not endorsing
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you not paying for a subscription
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service if it's something that requires
18:03
a subscription but it's up to you to
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decide how you would want to proceed you
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could simply skip those channels or you
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can watch everything and just sort of
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keep moving forward and don't worry
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about it that much that's up to you
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that's your choice and so some people
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have said they do have some buffering in
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that case I will say that the VC box or
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maybe it's the Heat Ultra service
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whatever it is is they have multiple
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servers around the world and you can
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simply go into settings and try a
18:34
different server and that should get rid
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of your buffering and that's everything
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I think this is a keeper this is
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something I'm going to leave plugged
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into my TV because it gives me so many
18:45
more options and it's so much more
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straightforward in a lot of ways than
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the Vio operating system is so that's
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what I got I really would encourage you
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to check it out and look at the options
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out there for overthe toop ipv or OT ipv
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again I don't know where those acronyms
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come from um but this is one that's
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definitely on the top of the list right
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now and it's fast and it's powerful and
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has a lot of capabilities and as you saw
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it's pretty darn easy to get started so
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just don't feel at all intimidated and
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it comes with this great remote with a
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ton of features so one to check out I am
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going to ask you to subscribe to my
19:27
channel click or tap on that subscribe
19:29
button and then go ahead and hit that
19:32
Bell icon for notifications of my new
19:34
content as you can tell I'm very honest
19:37
I'm very straightforward I don't play
19:39
any tricks just going to tell you the
19:41
good and the bad of the devices that I
19:43
check out and I get my hands on a lot
19:45
give me a thumbs up if you found this of
19:47
value always appreciate that excellent
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now this let me just hold it up this is
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the VC boox V5 Pro live TV streaming box
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and it is
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$339 at VC boox tv.co and that might
20:05
sound a little spendy but this is
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something where you'll be able to use
20:08
this for years and it's entirely
20:11
possible that you won't need to
20:12
subscribe to any other services cuz this
20:14
will give you so many options including
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a ton of video on demand so that's what
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I got I think I'm going to go back and
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Hunt through the channels to try to find
20:23
something I want to watch which means
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I'll catch you in my next video
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[Music]
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