Is TVFix a Scam? (Yes, Here's Why) - Krazy Ken's Tech Talk

[@ComputerClan]

Hey all! Enjoy the new episode! If you like these scam-busters, feel free to leave a "like" on the episode because that helps me gauge interest. Simply put, more likes = more episodes! Thanks! And thanks to Linode for sponsoring!

[@FerintoshFarmsPhotography]

You're kind of annoying in these videos, too much over acting with the over reactions that make the video really long winded. Could be cut down to 8 minutes easy.

[@Cartrigger]

Thank you for actually doing it! I suggested this :D

[@DarkStar3147]

Hahahaha!!! People actually believe shit like this. People, it's simple: There are IPTV providers out there that for $10 or $20 USD per month will give you like 3000 channels from the Americas (all of it) and the EU in SD, HD and 4K. Moral of the story? Just pay for the damn thing hahah. Computer Clan: Love your page, bro! Keep up the good work

[@cpyt]

I don’t care about linode and none of your subscribers do either so stop getting sponsored by linode because nobody cares and you’re just annoying us.

[@almostgayasamriscol]

@@nevergonnagiveyouup4189 yeah I used to work for the company both 1 and 2 are true. In more detail the screen caster is bought bulk and we rebranded it for each different brands. If u look closely there's diff brands between the photos, reality, etc. Look in the marketing materials its a waving guy and in Ken's hand its says TVFix

[@GyroCannon]

"This product has not been approved by the FDA" is technically correct lol The FDA is too busy validating food and drug products to look at TV accessories.

[@UnknownName5050]

You mean letting poison through and killing billions

[@defaultkid99]

@@UnknownName5050 somebody's been watching conspiracy videos

[@_barncat]

too busy taking bribes from pharma companies

[@ironnoah9461]

@@defaultkid99 their name is IntendedConsequence 🤔

[@coolvoice7]

FDA=Frankly Dubious Advert😄

[@SuperSmashDolls]

I think the funniest part of this scam is the idea that a team of university scientists and engineers were involved with this. Like, as if they just came up with some scientific phenomenon that makes copyright unenforceable and content magically free?

[@brianlawhorn9773]

I was surprised it wasn’t even a sketchy Android TV box, just a bad Chromecast.

[@Alex-fv2qs]

Yeah, I was expecting s cheap clone of the newer version of the Chromecast

[@monad_tcp]

@@Alex-fv2qs it's not even that because it's not cheap

[@lance_374]

@@monad_tcp Cheap for the seller, just not for the customer.

[@AllanSavolainen]

And there already is cheap but working Chinese chromecast clones, so they atleast could have made a working product. Perhaps they've bought inventory of some failed product or something.

[@FuckTheState]

In my country we use android boxes with some specialized app to get free channels.

[@Rusty_Nickle]

It amazes me how far we've come in society that nobody recognizes an antenna anymore

[@jessemiller2335]

tell someone of gen z that you can get free tv channels using an antenna, they’d be shocked. that’s why everywhere on youtube there’s videos like “GET FREE TV CHANNELS NOW WITH THIS SIMPLE TRICK!” and it’s just an antenna. quite literally barely anyone gen z even knows that there was a time where this was a very common thing to do. i thought 2000s was still somewhat of the prime for vhs and over the air tv but it wasn’t, everything was just switching to digital, everyone had cable, there were dvds, but there just happened to be some tapes in my childhood, but otherwise most gen z’ers born after 2000 might not even know wtf any of this is despite them being in their prime just years before

[@pikachuchujelly7628]

I was discussing TV with a guy at work and told him how I get all these free channels with an antenna. He asked me if that was legal, and I said, "Bruh, it's just like how you listen to radio in your car."

[@bonkman6463]

@@jessemiller2335 Im gen z and I've known about that since I was a kid. don't spend time with anyone else though so I don't have any idea of what others know, but I thought it would've been something that is known by most. I guess everyone is more different than I realize

[@CantankerousDave]

I've seen online comments from people who think that watching over-the-air TV signals is piracy.

[@bonkman6463]

@@CantankerousDave bruh

[@tyta1]

I became suspicious already with the 10-year research at a Tokyo university, but the "top military engineers" made it seem completely ridiculous 😂 Why would you need those to test a TV box?

[@bob_the_bomb4508]

To see how easy it is to break it! We’re good at that :)

[@RestoreTechnique]

10yrs of research down the drain 😞

[@ids1024]

Presumably their sophisticated sensitive radio receiving technology has military applications as well. This seems like a particularly absurd scam origin story, but I guess it might seem credible if you know absolutely nothing about radio technology or copyright law, nor have any common sense.

[@NorthStarBlue1]

Making vague implications that there's a connection to military technology is another old marketing tactic, it gives the illusion that the product is precision built and high quality without actually saying anything about the quality of the product. Cause, y'know, armed forces have never had sub-par equipment that was designed by the lowest bidder. The main thing is it causes the consumer to make assumptions about the product, thus the manufacturer can't be blamed if/when it falls short of even the most basic expectations.

[@ids1024]

@@NorthStarBlue1 Like VPNs with "military-grade encryption", when most of the internet is already using "military-grade encryption" these days. In those cases it's technically true, but deceptive. Here they're making claims that are absolutely nonsensical lies, so they may as well claim they received the technology from inter-dimensional aliens.

[@molIymawk]

kudos to you for going through the hassle of twitter’s advanced search. really annoys me when someone goes looking for a tweet, and when the username comes up with no result, they give up. never seen your videos before but this is great. thanks for the video man

[@subparlario4916]

Even though you waste money on these garbage products, you're spreading knowledge about _how_ garbage they are, which is worth so much more. Keep on making these videos, man! You're doing God's work! edit: damn i was just trying to tell krazy ken that i love this kind of content, y'all really didn't have to start an argument in the replies

[@JJ_Skippy]

Don’t forget that the ad revenue he’s making on these videos is probably making back way more than what the product cost.

[@PhayzinOut]

Someone's gotta take one for the team 🤷

[@sagichdirdochnicht4653]

Well of course, he's gonna make back the Money he spends on that Crap. The real Problem is, that the Scammer Companies sold another Item. However, Videos like that are priceless for educational Purposes. All of those Scam Products have a very similar "vibe". If you've seen a couple of those Scam Products and their Commercials, I'm sure many who would otherwise fall for the Scam might sense there could be something fishy going on don't just buy immediatly. Same goes for really any Kind of Scam. If you've seen your first say 10 Phishing Mails, Scam Mails, Scam Calls, etc. most will become "immune" to that. That's why I allways wish Videos as that get widespread. The more People that are Educated about Scams, the less People will fall for them. Also, while there is no bloody Way in Hell I'd fall for those more then obvious Scams - I've been on the Internet far to long for that - those Videos are still highly entertaining to watch.

[@SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648]

God rebuke 'em for a thing that's merde-ier than merde. There's a wicked psychology (and spirituality) behind this stuff, I would aver. I think there is such a thing as being so conditioned to expect abuse that one plays along with it.

[@2010ngojo]

Still giving money to these scammer, which is still a downside.

[@gamba9740]

My grandfather bought one of these about 2 years ago- I felt horrible when I had to tell him that it was a scam.

[@wireframedotsrgl4481]

Going into this video, I thought "oh, it's just an Android SoC device running Kodi with a bunch of plugins" I wouldn't have thought it would be even worse than that

[@ComputerClan]

Right? x_x

[@soniccookie655]

I had totally forgotten Kodi existed until just now.

[@rudeskalamander]

What is Kodi?

[@soniccookie655]

@@rudeskalamander It’s basically a program that lets you have all your media in one place (music, movies, TV shows, etc). A lot of people program add-ons for it, many of which let you illegally stream content.

[@MrLuigge]

@@soniccookie655 not only thst but you can have all TV paid channels and content you want on there...

[@Diggy22]

Reminds me of when Rabbit TV was around. A co-worker bought one as a present for me. All it did was hyperlink me to Crackle and Hulu (back when Hulu had a free plan option).

[@iPsychlops]

As someone who just got licensed to operate ham radio, it's laughable that a device that small could pick up low frequency low power radio waves...

[@eins2001]

I too enjoy a good ham radio and cheese sandwich

[@imthemistermaster]

@@eins2001 ham Sammy certied

[@hyvahyva]

@@eins2001 I prefer spicy ham radio (it's been sent via vacuum tubes(

[@blakksheep736]

Ham radio?

[@UrDadLes37]

Heh.

[@Dirk_Strider]

The "stock photo" of the author of that scam article appears to actually be an image generated by a GAN, as in "This Person Does Not Exist". The giveaway is the eyes being in the exact center of the image along with the indistinct asymmetrical but almost-plausible background of "Maybe it's trees? Maybe it's a wall? Is he in a greenhouse?"

[@anthonynorton666]

This reminds me of those scams where a company claims their device brings you free channels with no need for cable. It's a digital antenna. Apparently, some people have forgot that television stations still broadcast.

[@Tim85-y2q]

At least a digital antenna is actually providing a legitimate and legal service that functions (more or less) as advertised.

[@anthonynorton666]

Good point. It's the spin that implies that you couldn't get those channels for free before that's scammy. The consumer could have gotten those channels with any antenna if there in the right location which also is a factor in their product. A more honest approach would be to present something unique about the product like price or design feature.

[@pikachuchujelly7628]

There's no such thing as a digital antenna. An antenna just picks up signal, and the TV decodes it. I'm using the same antenna my grandma had in the 70s, and it works with anything.

[@larryjohns8823]

One ad show it working on a boat moving in the water. NOPE! You would spend all you time rescanning to find channels.

[@SkiBumMSP]

@@pikachuchujelly7628 Exactly! Any good UHF TV antenna will pick up the digital signals, such as that 30-plus year old one I have on my roof. When I was getting the roof and siding replaced on my house, the contractor wanted to take the antenna down. I told him I want it put back and I showed him why. A college football game in high-def happened to be on at that time on my then brand-new high-end Mitsubishi Diamond series High-def rear projection TV (long since replaced with my current LG OLED 4K TV) and he could not believe that I could pick up HD signals like that over the air. This was back when digital/HD TV was just coming out.

[@scrumpycat2611]

The advertisement is so bad that it's like a comedy sketch.

[@BillAnt]

I was mesmerized by the chick's ripped jeans.... that's about it. lol

[@CanMav]

Ken needs to have a "Hall of Shame" for the worst products... this belongs there.

[@clockwood4171]

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[@ishkar5k]

@@clockwood4171 do you speaks england?

[@ChaseMC215]

@@clockwood4171 Sadly not Ryuko from KILL La KILL, which Ken likes.

[@EpicNess300]

Oh hell yeah

[@SKCro.]

I own one of these (it was given to me by a neighbor, I didn't buy it) and I can confirm it's not HDCP authorized. Disney+ refused to cast. Oddly, screen mirroring worked rather decently for me (but that may just be because I was using older devices to AirPlay to it.)

[@almostgayasamriscol]

Hi Ken I'm actually a former employee at this company who made a bunch of the products in your scambusting videos. I quit and have no loyalty to it. Hit me up if u want any more info on anything. This is a generic account cuz they company has a habit of sueing anybody and everybody. I honestly would love to do like an AMA or something just that always I'm worried that I'll be threatened with a lawsuit haha And trust me there are LOTS AND LOTS of other products u guys have not even heard of that will be popping up in videos like this! The company is a gold mine for that kind of stuff!!

[@yodasscrotum]

Reddit AMA ??

[@calebwhite6173]

Get this to Ken

[@agy234]

Who is behind it?

[@blakksheep736]

Come see this, Ken.

[@Reap3r07sis]

Yes!! do a Reddit AMA!!

[@FunnyHaHa420]

Yeah, anything that "Takes Germany by storm" can't be a good thing.

[@Flobbie]

These scam investigation vids are always a treat!

[@Your_Local_Weirdo75]

i agree

[@ThePrufessa]

Go to sleep

[@Your_Local_Weirdo75]

@@ThePrufessa ?

[@ThePrufessa]

@@Your_Local_Weirdo75 I wasn't talking to you but you can go to sleep too.

[@Your_Local_Weirdo75]

@@ThePrufessa why are you telling people to go to sleep

[@ChristianH.1]

Thanks for reviewing all these products. I get at least a text per week for these products. I never order them but I’ve always wondered if they work. Thanks to you, my suspicions are confirmed that they don’t.

[@Ginger_Dalek]

I've seen similar products advertised. They did go as far as "explaining" the "loophole". Basically, the claim is that in a given country any subscription/encrypted TV service has, "by law", got to be available via free-to-air transmission, but can be done using "secret" frequencies that providers don't want people to know about.

[@clockwood4171]

beleive it or not ryoko is on up and up great product wifi service and data cheapest that can be bought anywhere else and service is the best and they back there product the service allowes me 10 others to use it as well at same time with no loss in wifi signal anyone i give my access code too can use it my self and ten others at same time its great dont miss out on the cheapest data around

[@clockwood4171]

p.s they give ya 500mbs free upon purchase as well no a scam its true

[@Tim85-y2q]

Even if that were true, it wouldn't apply to things like OTT content though as they're not actually "TV service" so it's not even a good line of BS.

[@LegoWormNoah101]

Similar to how in the U.S, the ".1" sub-channel in a TV channel is required to be free to view over OTA.

[@justaweeb14688]

@@clockwood4171 you need to declare ads

[@baerishlyakita3711]

I find it hilarious that they claim the University of Tokyo researched a technology that would enable consumers to access various channels, in a country with extremely strict regulations on their airwaves, enough that every Japanese TV must have an IC access card to prevent anyone from pirating unauthorized TV channels.

[@PaulGrayUK]

TV Caster is probably a typo for TV coaster so your energy drinks have a coaster - bless. Another clue was DVR - Downward Vertical Resting - a technical term for placing a can upon the coaster.

[@raven4k998]

WOW this is worthless sponsored by linode🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@SuperCosmicMutantSquid]

I love these tech scam videos. It's not just a way to see what to look out for, I just love you roasting these scams.

[@yeeterlol]

Even if TVFix was real, you'll probably gain more money if you reported the vulnerability to cable companies.

[@raven4k998]

8:01 is it me or is that sat dish really really broken??

[@haroldfridkis9657]

That's piracy.

[@casualcrisis6349]

i would never willingly give corrupt companies any knowledge. i love piracy, you get what you want without having to consume it *as* unethically as you do under the regular methods capitalism enforces

[@wolfetteplays8894]

@@casualcrisis6349 so paying artists is unethical??? Okay then… you’re the type of person I hate. You whine and cry and scream about how workers are getting exploited, but I bet you’ve never bought a CD or painting from an independent artist in your damn life 😂😂😂😂

[@ns3421thelocomotive]

@@casualcrisis6349 piracy is actually a really bad idea

[@VoidHalo]

I remember right around the time of the digital switchover a lot of devices seemed to pop up out of nowhere that claimed you could just plug it into your USB port and get free TV somehow. I assumed they enabled streaming services of some sort until one of them explicitly said it's actual TV channels. So that just set off all sorts of alarm bells in my head. IF it works, it seems like the legality of it would be the same as the old cheaters boxes for cable TV back in the 90's. Or hacked cards for satellite receivers around the same era and into the 00s. Which were basically looked upon as theft in a lot of places. From a legal standpoint.

[@madden8021]

This series needs to expand to Website and VPS hosting scams that say "Free" or could in the end just rip you off and steal your money or worse "Hack your computer".

[@longislandstu]

But think about this… You connected a seemingly worthless device programmed by who knows who to your home network! Perhaps it’s doing something else.

[@kbhasi]

When I saw the thumbnail, I thought it was one of those tiny TV antennas that pick up almost nothing, but what was actually given was quite different from what I expected. It's as though these scammers (probably all the same people) scan Alibaba and come up with lies!

[@raven4k998]

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[@boutrosboutrosboutrosboutros]

You are so kind and generous to these scammers. "probably not" really is absolutely not! thanks for another great video exposing all the crap out there. people are scammed daily, you are one of the good guys fighting back

[@DeathMetalDerf]

Any time someone "doesn't want the public to know about" something, it's ALWAYS 100% TRASH.

[@TheKnobCalledTone.]

"x hate him! Something something one simple trick!"

[@clockwood4171]

ryoko ok product read my experience with ryoko and viotta data based out ov england viotta is and there actual ryoko made in china

[@LegoWormNoah101]

@@clockwood4171 dude, get your [KENSORED] together

[@haroldfridkis9657]

Stealing cable is against the law.

[@Stereocsx]

Here is a example from this trash (Oil company’s doesn’t want the public to know about) and the product. Well, that’s a magical box that saves fuel scam

[@riccardofilippi2648]

I bumped into this channel today... Smart, entertaining and at the same time methodologically rigorous. Awesome!

[@RaduTek]

At 4:05 that FDA disclaimer is followed by a product name: Kailo. That product is another scam/placebo effect that was started as a crowdfunding campaign. It is a patch that claims to relieve any pain instantly. Spoiler alert: it doesn't work.

[@vinnygi]

I got blocked from their Facebook page because I kept pointing out that the underlying “technology “ was physically impossible.

[@mattschm5486]

Thunderfoot debunked them a year ago. If I remember it was a 400$piece of plastic with some conductors on it working as a „bioantenna“ to relieve pain. Looks like this is the same scam company

[@vinnygi]

@@mattschm5486 I wish I had known that before they blocked me, I would have linked to it.

[@doughnutsfowler]

I remember a usb key that you could buy for like $19.95 that "Unlocked hours of streaming content" on your PC/Mac with an internet connection. My Mom bought one because she wanted to reduce bills, but got scammed for her trouble.

[@tomfale7225]

Yeah I Remember Buying One of the ( Fx TV) Or Some Similar BS ? What a POS It Only Got Free Channels & Very Poorly If at All 😮

[@brenthaymon280]

There was a product called "Rabbit TV" that said you could get hundreds of TV channels on your computer for free.

[@stuartcastle2814]

I can think of a couple of ways these sort of illegal streaming boxes work. One way is that (for Cable, Satellite or Freeview style DTV) they just have a load of low end PCs with capture cards hooked up to the relevant Cable, Satellite and DTV boxes, each of which is set to one channel. These are often just piled up in someone's house. I've not seen any recently, but our local papers used to often show photos of the Police walking into a bog standard looking house, and walking out with armfuls of Cable boxes, but I've no doubt it still goes on. The other way is using a bunch of old PCs logged into the various streaming services with stolen account details. They stream the data, probably using something like Kodi to the customer's boxes. In either case, the user is supporting a criminal. While the user is unlikely to have any action taken against them directly, they run the risk that one or more of the services that is being streamed will detect it, and either take action against the streamer or cut their access (probably both). In the event that the Police are involved, they run the risk of these boxes losing ALL access to the streaming content, as the servers it connects to will be blocked or taken offline. The third option is that this is a scam, and the box doesn't offer free access to all those services. It's just a cheap knockoff client that can stream from DNLA, or whatever streaming protocol your phone uses for wireless mirroring, with your phone being the device that accesses the services, presumably with your own account details.

[@CRaDISHOfficial]

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[@daneo617]

I was honestly shocked to see how many local channels I now get just from opening up a 📎 & sticking it in the coax hole in the back of my smart TV 🤷🏻‍♂️ don't by those expensive antenna

[@ChrisKewl]

I have to jump in and say there is no such thing as an "Digital Terrestrial Antenna". Television antenna technology hasn't changed because of digital ATSC. The antenna you had on your roof prior to 2009 will still work today, as long as it was properly taken care of.

[@christopheralthouse6378]

👍 THIS! I get SOOOOOO irritated with all of these "Digital Antennas" being advertised as if only THEY can allow access to modern OTA broadcasting...BUNK! All an antenna does is provide a means for broadcast signals to reach a TV tuner, THAT IS IT. The part that actually makes the difference between being able to decode a digital broadcast signal or not is the TV TUNER ITSELF. THAT is where the signals get decoded, then split into separate audio and video channels and then finally put onto your screen with the audio playing through the speakers. Analog tuners are designed for analog signals while digital tuners are, surprisingly enough, designed for digital signals. THAT is the part that will need to be capable of receiving digital signals to watch modern digital OTA broadcasts, NOT THE ANTENNA. I have a new set of rabbit ears on my SmartTV at home for watching broadcast TV. It is in NO WAY different from the rabbit ears antennas I used as a child to watch analog broadcasting, even including a "loop" antenna for...some reason... In any case, my SmartTV is, of course, designed with a built-in DIGITAL tuner and, surprise of all surprises, my VERY archaic (yet sold as modern... whatever...I never had kept any of my old antennas from childhood and it was cheap so idc...) antenna has NO PROBLEM receiving the TONS of digital OTA broadcasts in my area. Why? Because ALL IT HAS TO DO IS PROVIDE A PATH FOR THE SIGNALS TO TRAVEL. If we still used analog broadcasting, it would give me those analog channels provided my TV had an analog tuner. However, since analog is out and digital is in and thus my TV has a digital tuner...it gives me digital channels. Folks, it's about the TUNER, NOT the ANTENNA. Sadly, it seems every antenna manufacturer has bought into the marketing tactic of labeling antennas as digital (my soul dies a bit each time I see this 😒) so my word of advice is this...if you do need to buy an antenna, just go for the el-cheapo options. This really is the rare case of more money not equaling better quality. Any antenna will receive any channels that are available in the area and that are strong enough to be received, regardless if it's a cheap set of rabbit ears or a super expensive "digital rectangle", either one will do. The only reason that I would ever recommend shelling out the bigger bucks would be if you lived in a VERY remote area where some power-boosting of your antenna may be needed to amplify the weak signals that you're receiving, which some "digital rectangles" do provide...again, SOME. The ones that mount flush to the back of your TV will not provide that, look for ones that include a power adapter to provide that power boosting. However, if like the majority of the country, you live in a densely populated area with plenty of strong broadcast signals ripe for your easy picking, a simple cheap set of rabbit ears should do perfectly fine to provide you with access to TONS of free OTA digital broadcasts ready for your instant HD...or even 4K...or however many K's we're up to now...viewing pleasure. Now, cue the [digitally smooth jazz]...😅☺️😁

[@martinmbuthia1965]

@@christopheralthouse6378 Awesome breakdown! I've been cheated and I feel a bit hurt and rather dumb. Now I know how antennas work! 😊 Gracias!

[@MorbidEel]

even when not properly taken care of ... mine has a few pieces broken off and it still works :P

[@christopheralthouse6378]

@@MorbidEel Mine is actually partially defective out of the box... believe me, I REALLY meant it when I said el cheapo, this brand couldn't even afford the quality control to ensure that both "ears" were actually AFFIXED SECURELY at each base! 😅😣😵😅 Therefore, only one of the two "ears" is actually firmly affixed at its base and sending signals through to the TV along with the loop. The other ear is simply flopping in the breeze, so to speak...😅 And yet still, I get beautifully sharp HD video from the crap ton of Digital OTA stations that are available in my area...from a shoddily manufactured, half-defective el-cheapo ancient set of "digital" rabbit ears... Which, of course, aren't actually digital at all... they're just really crappy overpriced rabbit ears that were still the cheapest on the shelf...😅😂🤣

[@rtw777]

That was another scam when digital broadcasts replaced analogue. Scammers were going door to door offering cheap aerial upgrades, which just meant climbing on the roof, climbing off again and then charging for no changes at all.

[@mimikyoo]

gotta love how scam products always go for the "decades of research from a university" angle

[@mastahc411]

You're a braver man than I. Ain't no way I'd let that thing on my wifi

[@raven4k998]

oh common what's the worse that can happen that it freezes up oh wait it does that according to him🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@twilightparanormalresearch186]

@@raven4k998ok? You trying to make a point

[@Tim85-y2q]

The craziest thing about this is that most of the people who would be suckered in by it probably couldn't get past the set up anyway, making it less than worthless to them.

[@spontanioussponge]

I didn't expect the outright lie about what it does, I thought it might at least be for playing IPTV streams from m3us, even if you have to supply them yourself.

[@pepethepatriot7524]

That's exactly what I was thinking at first too! Wow, this thing is a bigger scam than I anticipated!

[@kantraa]

this. not even iptv?? lmao at that point i would just download one of the hundreds of free iptv clients out there :P

[@Xnoob545]

@@pepethepatriot7524 I thought it'd be a useless piece of plastic or just not ship at all

[@tw11tube]

@@kantraa Maybe the IPTV is part of the optional "TVFix Antenna" they tried to sell as accessory after selling the "TVFix Caster"...

[@melgross]

Whenever you see an ad on KZbin that says “taking the world by storm”, you know that all of those ads are from the same company, and that it’s a fraud.

[@TheSonicsean]

Holy cow I was expecting a knock off Android TV box filled with pirate software. I guess it really is technically legal.

[@cy-one]

0:45 "Taking Germany by storm." I'm a tech geek. I'm a German. I'm in Germany. I've never heard of this thing ;)

[@ZacabebOTG]

I was half expecting it to connect to some aggregation site of pirated TV streams, like those "free tv" USB sticks that just contain a bunch of links. I guess the absence of that is what makes it "100% legal"...

[@4450krank]

I half expected it to brick any tv it was pluged in to 🤣

[@clockwood4171]

ryoko gives 500mbs free upon purchase then through viotta the cheapest purchased data that can be bought no where no one no data supplier in canada can touch there data prices cheaper buy almost haf the cost even after factoring in the exchange on the dallar difference for real

[@dnb5661]

@@clockwood4171 Are you paid to advertise that company? I see your replies everywhere on here.

[@Laugh1ngboy]

I know I'm late but the thin tv antenna is actually military technology. There have been several attempts to make antennas needed for communication smaller for military use. Sadly it is mostly relegated to just bending it correctly and attaching a better noise filter. They figured that out some time in the 50 or 60's with CB radios.

[@schmourt]

my thoughts are that they used the older network logos to target people in their late 30s/40s/50s who grew up on cable and think that free cable networks sound good. they'd recognize the old logos more

[@visaman]

Or the ad is 25 years old.

[@wakkowarner8810]

It’s only 100% legal if you don’t get caught using it. :-)

[@exilsaarlander9813]

Looking forward to another scam busting, have seen the original German ad a few times. There was also another ad video where it claimed it is able to unlock HD+ (Widely used System in Germany to receive certain private owned stations in HD) which is highly illegal over here. Sure that'll work 🤔

[@tahaak]

Andauernd „dieses Produkt erobert Deutschland im Sturm“ was weiß ich. Geht einem so auf den Sack. Kann KZbin den Schrott nicht endlich mal rausfiltern? Jedes mal will ich mein Smartphone an die Wand klatschen wenn diese dreckswerbung kommt

[@gentuxable]

@@tahaak of course not, KZbin makes money as long as people fall for it. - Natürlich nicht, solange KZbin damit Geld macht, werden sie das nicht filtern. Die einzige Möglichkeit besteht darin, dass keiner mehr drauf reinfällt und die Betrüger auf dem Mist sitzen bleiben.

[@graphicsgod]

These type of devices are super popular in Asian and Spanish countries.

[@apri1979]

Where did you see the ad? I never heard about this piece of „high-end-technology“.

[@HyperSnap01]

@@apri1979 This Ads are in smartphone websites @Andreas Woll es gibt kein deutsches Original sieht man auch am Video.

[@MashifyLV]

The main issue with these scams is that most (if not all) of them are also available on Amazon. So a person would go "if it's on Amazon, it should do at least SOMETHING right?".

[@gentuxable]

At first I thought this is like a newer version of dreambox which loaded some shared keys, which actually worked at the time but was not really legal. But nowadays those keys get changed quite often and have some other DRM protection which is highly unlikely that there would be a "legal loophole" to exploit.

[@therealxunil2]

You CAN get a device that accesses radio waves and feeds them to your TV. We call it an antenna

[@SuussyBakka]

9:08 Computer Clan: tells us that he got copyrighted *proceeds to show the copyright content* Apple: we’ll f*cking do it again

[@thomasleary1807]

I don't really need a video like this to confirm my suspicions of a fraudulent product, but I am glad you're helping some folks who might be less familiar with these fraudulent marketers. I think it would be really nice in future scam-busting videos if you direct folks toward legitimate products that actually work and fulfill at least some of the promises that the item being busted claims.

[@Lemurion287]

The initial ad proved it was impossible. They claimed to use "low frequency" waves but don't have the hundreds of meters of antenna low frequency would require....

[@NiSE_Rafter]

I like how it costs more than a legitimate normal Chromecast that actually works

[@NordRageLevicus]

One minute in I can already tell it is sus [insert over-used video game reference here] Just get a vpn or just pirate. Never pay for piracy, if you got the money and if it is available in your area just buy it legit. This already looks like piracy for profit which is shady af.

[@NordRageLevicus]

Piracy is never legal btw, even where I live where it is technically legal to download foreign content, when it comes to local content you are gonna go to jail. My family had american channels cause we installed a satellite to bootleg said channels in the early to mid 00's, it only worked for a year and a half when they started incrypting their signals like this guy said. I remember watching pay-per-view of robots the movie over and over again and my parents were okay with it cause they would not be charged from it. As I said it got patched a year and a half later and we had a completely useless big ass satellite on my old childhood home.

[@skranz4901]

Hi, German here... I think I would have noticed, if this think takes Germany "by Storm". In fact, most households I know don't even use cable over here, but satellite TV. But that may be regionally different Keep up the work! And I'd happily translate, if you stumble upon any more German and reach Google translate's limits.

[@RavenBlack74]

The Indian voice in the advert should shout "SCAM" to anyone.

[@You_took_my_crutches_away]

RASCIST

[@RandomBitzzz]

This reminds me of an IPTV looking thing I saw on the shelf at WalMart 5 years ago. It made some of the same claims about free tv this, and free tv that, but in the end, I suspect it was just a collection of bookmarks to services like Crackle and Tubi. The device looked like a small thumb drive. I couldn't believe WalMart would carry such a scammy looking product.

[@raven4k998]

it's a made up government that's what government sanctioned and approved it

[@denniskruse4534]

1:50 yes there are and have been similar product "advertisements" in German KZbin ads with the same opening sentence, the same poorly computer generated voice and video structure. those products are smartphone lenses with "incredible" zoom, nightvision goggles that "only military uses", GPS tracker, super glue, etc

[@RestoreTechnique]

I can't help fantasising about taking revenge on these scammers. As much as I enjoy these videos, it makes my blood boil 😤

[@christopheralthouse6378]

One does have to admire the skillful use of just about EVERY scammy marketing tactic available though...even to the extent of hiring a foreign actor to read off of a script that she obviously DOES NOT understand! 😅😂🤣

[@TubeOPaste]

The 'tweet' displayed at 3:48 was supposedly posted on April 31st 😂

[@kurichan355]

Should’ve been posted on april 1st

[@plumjet09]

It’s a perfectly cromulent date, like February 30th.

[@OzRetrocomp]

"Mom, can we have a Chromecast?" "We have a Chromecast at home" Chromecast at home:

[@iamlorddems3859]

the ad reminded me of those old clear tv and rabbit tv ads

[@woah-dude]

it's interesting how every android powered product needed a decade of dedicated development in a lab.

[@monad_tcp]

It's almost like things take time to be developed and you can bullshit your way with just marketing or even money.

[@TheKnobCalledTone.]

I think it was a bad translation. What the ad meant to say was "developed about a decade ago".

[@ImmaFiringNoLazors]

it's interesting how every android powered product is groundbreaking military technology developed by elite american scientists looking to destroy the monopoly

[@monad_tcp]

@@ImmaFiringNoLazors while in fact making the monopoly stronger

[@tsuyunobradley4439]

My friends and I engineered our own Android mobile phone board and design in a few weeks. All we need is manufacturing facilities, that's it, you can have an Android device made and shipped in under a year.

[@torrarosa7064]

You crack me up, Krazy Ken, every time.. Love your uploads.. When I need a good laugh I tune into your channel.. Cheers.. 🤣

[@robertdragoff6909]

There’s an old saying that I learned from a PSA (public service announcement) years ago. If it sounds too good to be true, a bell should go off in your head. When I saw this, Big Ben started gonging in my head! This thing screams scam even if you don’t know all the things that you need to get it work. Thanks for letting us know.

[@blankblank4642]

This bloke is a technical, funny, scam buster, many thanks for your content.

[@galaxy2100]

0:45 I‘m from Germany and I can officially confirm to deny that this thing is taking us by storm 😂

[@tcpratt1660]

Two things from Germany that take the world by storm, and I wholly approve: Die Mannschaft, and Military History (both Visualized and Not Visualized - "Die Panzerkampfwagen is the life for me!")

[@SarafinaSummers]

I'm from America. This thing uses identical language to every scam product sold here!

[@InfectiousGroovePodcast]

With the streaming wars still out of hand, people are going to continue to fall for stuff like this and try to find any alternative they can. I hope that the rest of 2023 sees content providers realizing that they need to have more bundled apps and services.

[@Pharaneo]

I found your channel during my quarantine. Thank God I had my 3 shots already. Now I'm here to say "thank you!". Really, your way of presenting your topics is unique an entertaining. Greetings from southern Germany 🤟🏻

[@Pharaneo]

By the way; in Germany "pay-TV" is thing in sports (soccer mainly). Since 10 years or so I didn't see one person with classic "pay-TV". I'm shocked there would be a market for something like that.

[@drsmooooovedre7819]

LOVE your channel bro! PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE do a review on the Portable Kinetic Molecular Heater! 👍🏽🙏🏽👍🏽

[@cujoedaman]

You know, I actually learned something. I didn't know they sent satellite signals as microwaves. It's one of those things I never thought about and never needed to look up :D

[@raven4k998]

yeah tv device that's not approved by the food and drug admin so you shouldn't eat the device🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@cujoedaman]

@@raven4k998 BUT IT LOOKS SO TASTY!

[@h8GW]

Legit nearly all of our wireless communications are done with microwaves. Ever have your wifi go on the fritz when you were using the microwave oven? Turns out they use the same microwave frequency.

[@cujoedaman]

@@h8GW Never had that issue, but if it happens, I'll keep an eye on who's using the microwave :D

[@SarafinaSummers]

@@cujoedaman So the reason that it has some of that language is because of people like my husband with pacemakers. But it also should mention it being part 15 compliant.

[@brianoconnell6459]

There's also the "rabbit" . Let's put it this way, it was a cheap USB drive from the dollar tree.

[@ernstoud]

Sponsored by Linode. Of which I regularly see port scans on my IP address. Excellent video nonetheless.

[@kantraa]

linode is shady af and theyre sponsoring every tech youtuber out there. just buy a raspberry pi or use Vultr

[@TheKnobCalledTone.]

Still better than RAID Shadow Legends

[@spondulix99]

BTW, there is no such thing as a Digital Terrestrial Antenna (6:38). An antenna designed to receive at a given frequency, or within a given frequency band, receives digital and analog signals equally well. Only the receiver behind the antenna discriminates between digital and analog signals.

[@andywest5773]

"Are they somehow harnessing all of these airwaves and signals and converting them and broadcasting them over the internet...? They would somehow need to setup antennas... and have all these servers to re-encode all these things and broadcast them." A company called Aereo actually did this ten years ago. Each customer was asssigned their own individual antenna stored in a remote warehouse somewhere. It was an innovative idea, perfectly legal, and well executed. However, in a tragic failure of the American justice system, they were sued out of existence.

[@stonerdoomclown]

huh, that doesn't sound legal..im gonna look into this

[@andywest5773]

@@stonerdoomclown It was illegal in the sense that the Supreme Court ruled that Aereo's service constituted a "public performance", but that is a bizarre interpretation. They were deemed to be essentially the same as cable companies, but then denied the mandatory copyright license (Section 111) that such companies are entitled to. In other words, they got screwed. The only thing they really did "wrong" was to defy large, powerful broadcasting companies and their lawyers.

[@bland9876]

I heard that way back in the day you used to be able to buy giant satellite dishes that could pick up free television but that's long gone.

[@nicholas_scott]

I honestly thought it was going to have an installed and setup KODI. That’s a free app that gives you everything for free.... but.... not legally.

[@Superboologan1]

Always a good sign when any ad repeatedly tells you how legal it is

[@catholiccontriversy]

Yay. Someone on Facebook sent me an "article" on Facebook for this since I'm really into tv. Immediately my scam alarm went off, but the website was a masterpiece of deception. Anyone who knew what they were really talking about would immediately say "no, that has nothing to do with their claims," but to nom-experts it sounds legit. I also looked into the tweets and they didn't exist, and all sorts of other "bootleg sources."

[@froznpyro]

Ah yes, I too am a fellow human that is really into tv.

[@twilightparanormalresearch186]

Hello fellow humans I like to breathe, and walk on leg and television

[@HailAnts]

This is a modern equivalent of the old tabletop satellite dish that was nothing more than an indoor VHF antenna that was sold thru magazines back in the 80s..

[@catholiccontriversy]

The "article" I read for this was talking about how there is "a new standard in tv broadcasting that's coming that will change the tv landscape, don't get left behind," and yes, there is ATSC 3.0 coming, which is going to be a transition similar to the DTV transition, and this has nothing to do with it. There was also mention about how "the FCC has determined that tv must be accessible, and there can't be infringements on your ability to receive it," and I'm thinking "that just means it's illegal to forbid someone from putting up a giant TV antenna to receive over the air broadcasts, and you can't create harmful interference with licensed broadcasts." There was also that HBO lawsuit where people were making pirate decoders with simple RadioShack components that HBO lost since they didn't use proprietary encryption and so they had to find other ways to transmit their signal. Like, everything they cited was true in terms of laws and technology advancements, but none of it had anything to do with their claims. It's the equivalent to "inflation has risen 10% in the last 8 years, and yet wages have remained stagnant, this kind of financial pressure is exactly why Bernie Sanders is right about redistribution," "ok son, but I'm still not going to buy you those concert tickets."

[@dashcamandy2242]

"The FCC has determined that TV must be accessible, and there can't be infringements on your ability to receive it." 🤣 I know it's part of some product's marketing wank, but that is a hilarious statement!!! Analog OTA TV in my area in 2009: 13 available channels. Some from towers as far away as Needham, MA (WGBH Boston), over 100 miles away. Under absolute perfect conditions, sometimes we could receive - quite poorly - far-distant channels we hadn't known of, often 3-5 more, but conditions had to be just right. Digital OTA TV in my area in 2009: 1 available channel - sometimes - with plenty of pixellation, stutters, dropouts. Hope you like UPN (now an independent station that plays CoziTV, Logo, and the occasional "public access" show), whose tower is 6 miles away "as the crow flies," because that's all you (sometimes) get! And that's after _three_ different indoor "Digital TV" antennas because the rooftop antenna couldn't pick up anything at all. So we made the jump in 2011, after two years of no TV at all, to Cable. As an added benefit, we got to ditch AOL dial-up (and our landline) because we already invested in having 350' of coax buried, might as well get the internet service too...

[@catholiccontriversy]

@@dashcamandy2242 "Ability to receive" doesn't mean there has to be something to receive. Maybe there's something with PBS being available because they're government, but the government can't force NBC or ABC to have an affiliate in every market because they do over the air. I'm just saying if one want to put a 30 foot antenna tower in one's backyard (or whatever zoning limitations are), legally speaking noone can stop them so long as it only receives and doesn't transmit (because the fcc isn't a fan of amateur broadcasting). I'm sorry to hear you can't get any over the air channels since those are actually what makes cable so expensive (that and sports channels). If you can live without CBS and CW and local news, and watching everything a day later, I recommend hulu plus for major network shows (FOX, ABC, NBC) and sling or philo for the cable channels. I saved $50 a month doing this.

„People were making pirate decoders using simple RadioShack components“ just sounds like HBO has modulated and not encrypted the signal at all. Demodulation is very easy and you can for example receive SSB using two AM shortwave receivers near to each other (utilizing the internal oscillator of one of the receivers). It‘s not even piracy/descrambling in my opinion. Otherwise, you could say the same for demodulation DAB/HD Radio/Digital Radio Mondiale as these standards also rely on QPSK and other modulations.

[@bruceholroyd7063]

I wasn't going to buy this anyway when a store purchased analog/digital antenna does the same thing!

[@DerekWitt]

What's this I'm detecting? It's Scheiße! We could see this a mile away. Love these scam busting videos, Ken!

[@samsimington5563]

I can't help but wonder what Linode's net worth is from a realistic perspective since almost nothing runs on Linux that people will actually use

[@FerintoshFarmsPhotography]

That digital DRM stuff really makes me mad. We can't use our Chrome to watch live TV anymore cause they forced the DRM requirements higher and it made ours obsolete.

[@Sanrasxz]

And what is "your Chrome" exactly?

[@damian9303]

@@Sanrasxz Chromecast

[@RazorRevenge]

Something I don’t understand, the Amazon fire stick is small but I’ve got several family members telling me to get one. How would that work compared to this?

[@emdotrod]

If a screen caster can’t play SD videos you know it’s a scam

[@briantidwell651]

BRO, I’ve been LOVING your performance in the new season of The Afterparty… that noir episode was the BALLS👍

[@nikkiofthevalley]

Hey Ken, I found a subtitle mistake. At 5:53, what I assume is supposed to be "transmitted" is instead "transmitte&d". I'm not sure if you can change subtitles after the video is uploaded, but if you can, you should probably fix that.

[@murderer2022]

obviously you can change it during upload and after upload. not even years after. and yes, please fix this .

[@jodybillings3841]

This thing was promoted on Facebook for a long time. I filled a few complaints and their crack team decided the add was fully legal and not at all a scam. They refused to hear any of the details of how this was fake. Just an other example of where Facebook will run any add they are paid enough for.

[@twilightparanormalresearch186]

I mean they remove church pages and leave up known isis recruitment pages

[@camptube7621]

Watching something for free that usually costs, that’s never legal 🤣

[@onlygknows7793]

when you hear that Indian accent 98% of the time it's a scam. This is same company that calls my mom to tell her that sherif is coming to take her to jail unless she buys a gift card at Walmart. The guys name is Rakesh Kumar sorry I mean Brad Johnson from India with a thick Indian accent. The local cops are in on the scam and that is they are never shut down. It is a multi billion dollar industry for India.

[@JonathanLaRiviere]

Scam buster vids are my favorite. Keep ‘em coming! You *could* go full hot take and scam bust Elon Musk’s traffic tunnel 😬😳 regardless, thanks for helping us protect our grandmas from these filthy scams!

[@JupiterCrusher]

what does an actual tunnel have to do

[@zardoz53]

Just found this and had a good laugh. Thanks CC. Most of the websites shown here are auto-bot (AI) produced, scanning for items posted elsewhere on the WWW and composing a webpage for the scammer. They scam at such a ferocious rate that the scammers do not check these pages. The idea is to get a broad-brush approach to traffic 😅to their servers.

[@wrexhammusic]

I signed up to an illigal service. For something like £10 a month I get Live subscription and pay per view UK, US, Astralian and Canada TV channels as well as the latest and greatest movies and series streaming through an app on my Fire TV stick. That's cheeper than Sky were charging just for the UK channels to watch legitimatly and they did a free trial, so I signed up for the trial and liked the service so much I've decided to pay for it. Been doing this since 2016 and never looked back. HUGE money saver and more content than I know what to do with.

[@tomfale7225]

If It's Legal What Is The Link Please ?

[@pixiendixie4211]

Similar product used to be called "rabbit tv" and it was garbage then too.