New Android Box and IPTV

[Electric_Andy]

Question for you techy people please. I've just bought a new android TV box. On the home screen there's a native App called Live TV. Great, I thought, watch the snooker without going into iPlayer. But it was IPTV and had every channel on there possible. I mean, red bull TV, ESPN, sky1, and what looked like every regional channel in the US. Plus Discovery channel and WWE, UFC etc.

How is it doing that? I thought they were all paid for subscription channels? Has it been side loaded with a dodgy all-access server connection or something?

Edited to add: it was new from Amazon

 

[classic33]

Anything to do with Prime, given it's from Amazon.

 

[Electric_Andy]

Anything to do with Prime, given it's from Amazon.

Nope. Those channels are available through Prime but you've got to subscribe. I currently have everything for free. I've not paid for anything apart from Netflix and Prime video

 

[fossyant]

It's probably a "dodgy box" if you can get onto the subscription chanels.

 

[Electric_Andy]

It's probably a "dodgy box" if you can get onto the subscription chanels.

Weird. All I can think is that someone bought it, logged in/hacked it, then returned it without logging out of IPTV. Either that or it comes that way out of the box as a way of the manufacturer selling more units?