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Airbox Spain, the air is clear. Raspberry Pi's all round then.

10/29/2013

10 Comments

 
Some of you may have seen a previous article about Airbox Spain and might wonder what's happened to it. I'll tell you.

Following a pleasant chat to clear the air with the guys at Airbox, I decided to remove in its' entirety the article relating to the bad service of that company and the poor performance of its' product. I wasn't asked to, forced to or otherwise induced to.

It must be stressed that my only experience of the Airbox product was through our mutual client who was totally dissatisfied with it, and that experience may, or may not be the norm. I am not in a position to say one way or the other because I just don't know. I can only form my own opinion of what I saw.

The points that really concern me about all of this are that they never once asked about, nor made mention of, our mutual customer to see if there was anything they could do to resolve that persons problems and never addressed the points mentioned but preferred to make 'sarcastic' (their word) comments about me and my business. Says it all really.

Airbox assure me that theirs is a solid and reliable product worth every cent of €279 for 12 months followed by a monthly subscription.

They also assure me that they developed the system which they are charging you for, that broadcasts the paid for premium content over the internet to your Airbox which is totally illegal without the content owners permission. Premium content owners never give their permission for this to anyone.

That opportunity has now passed and I hope this is my last diatribe on the airbox product as I feel everything has been said that can be said at this time.

What I will tell you all about though, is that if you want something that performs a similar (not same) function to airbox for a lot less, is that you mosey on over here - click here.

Here you can get all the help you need to set up your own Raspberry Pi IPTV box and get TV, sports and movie channels with no subscription. The only outlay you will have is for the Raspberry Pi and the bits to get it going which amounts to roughly €60 which is over €200 saving for your first year alone.

Links to all the free software and advice and guidance in how to put it it all together are provided by knowledgeable and helpful people who have already done it themselves and are happy to share their experiences with you. The guys over there will even source the equipment for you.

Even the non-techies are building their own IPTV boxes!!

So the bottom line is;

Currently, you can pay Airbox Spain €279 for your first year then pay them a monthly subscription.
OR
You can pay €60 with NO subscription.

You pays your money and makes your choice but just remember one really really really important point. Anyone streaming premium channels over the internet and then charging you for it is acting illegally because they do not have permission from the content provider to do that.

It is rebroadcasting and rebroadcasting without the content owners permission is always illegal and internet servers are an easy target for the broadcast companies to find, shut down and fine. Just so you know.


All registered trade marks and brand names acknowledged.
Airbox and Airbox Spain mentioned in this article refers to:
Airbox Spain, C/ Flecha 9, Urb La Siesta, Torrevieja.
Tel: 0034 691 429 558
10 Comments
paul wright
3/19/2014 08:18:49 am

Very true.This is a total con as usual

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Andrew Knight
2/10/2016 04:41:22 pm

I paid the full amount, had at best ten hours of tv, spent 40 hours doing the performing monkey act of reloading the bios etc....
Airbox don't want to know me now its fecked and have not replied to my e-mails.
Managed to contact Jason who was very nice but told me he has nothing to do with the brand and would charge me 25 euro to look at it, don't think I'll bother.
Worst money i can think I've ever spent.
Poor company, poor performance, what more do you need to hear.

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Clive
2/11/2016 10:22:24 pm

Sorry to hear of your plight Andrew.
Your experience does not surprise me following the conversations we had and the messages they felt obliged to send.
To be fair, some people have had a good experience of the product but it appears that if something goes wrong, you're on your own.
Before anyone says I'm being unfair, I can only comment on what is 'out there', and it's almost all bad.

W Moro
3/30/2015 05:37:24 am

I have been using the service for some time and, while I was unhappy that some links didn't function, accepted their explanation (from "Tom" who, of course, does not provide a last name) that they are at the mercy of internet providers.

Then, two weeks ago, ALL LINKS on their MOD 4 service became unusable and I got the same response from Tom.
"search" on MOD stopped working.
Clearly, something more is wrong but, when I complained, Tom told me that, unless I had programming expertise and something constructive to add, I should just use MOD 2 AND 3 " LIKE OTHER CUSTOMERS".
After saying this was a "B.S." response he reverted to me saying this was unacceptable language.
If anyone wants to see the email exchange write to: morowk@gmail.com and I will forward all.

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Clive
6/15/2015 04:50:12 am

The comments above are those of their owners and have been given freely and without coercion.

Anybody taking exception to them must raise the issue direct with the poster and not me.

Free speech is a right and I won't be taking away anybodies rights to respond to any article I publish.

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Peter Hanton
7/11/2015 05:52:40 am

I am thinking about purchasing one of these set top boxes, can you advise which one and cost.

Thanks

Peter

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Anonymous
10/7/2015 12:59:40 pm

Airbox Spain is a waste of money, constantly does not do what it should. Hugely frustrating trying to watch anything on it.

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marshall pickersgill
8/30/2016 12:46:46 pm

had an airbag for almost 3 yrs now, after a dodgy start with it crashing etc and getting no service etc (about 4/5 months back in 2012) the service and quality has vastly improved and hopefully we will use the airbox for many years to come as it can be used anywhere in the world with decent wifi

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Clive Gray
8/30/2016 11:00:16 pm

Hi Marshall,
Glad you managed to finally get things working, many haven't. It's probably got better since they moved away from the Raspberry Pi setup.
If they're still performing with Android boxes, it'll never be perfect as they tend to need constant maintenance at the back-end.
I waited to get a proper IPTV system that actually delivered BEFORE I released it to market, unlike many of the fly-by-nights out there.

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frank gillingham
12/14/2016 12:34:04 pm

I had one of these for a while, found issues with many items not working. Also tried the Kodi / Android boxes and found them to be difficult to use and also unreliable.

In the end, ended up with a different box and service, much easier to use and reliable. https://tvtech.sharepoint.com/Pages/britishiptv.aspx

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