I was wasting time browsing Taobao last night and came across some interesting-looking IPTV boxes: apparently, you buy this box for about 2000RMB, hook it up to the internet, and you can stream a few hundred domestic/foreign TV channels in HD. I'm 99% sure these aren't strictly legal and they're just rebroadcasting satellite feeds over the internet somehow, which makes me suspicious as to how reliable/good quality the streams are.

Do any of you guys have experience with one of these things? Do they actually work? Seems like a good deal for streaming sports etc.

http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=...cket=20#detail

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