There always seems to be something new to watch, whether it's a sporting event or a new movie or series on a streaming service. 
 
But paying for multiple subscriptions can be expensive. So, what if there was a way you could have access to thousands of channels for only a small price?
 
Define Wireless on Peach Street is a small shop, not where you would necessarily look for tv services. But visit with a streaming device like a Roku or Firestick and you could leave with access to thousands of channels and services for a $50 set-up fee and a $20 subscription.
 
When we heard of the business it sounded too good to be true, so we bought a streaming device and visited the store ourselves and set it up. 
According to the salesperson they put on two apps, Bee TV and Define Wireless, after you connect to Wifi, you have access to over 3,000 channels, from movies to local news, and sports.
 
The device worked as promised, but how does it work?
Matt Wiertel, the Director of Sale and Business of Velocity Network said it's a fairly common act called jailbreaking. So what you are doing with a firestick is really adding additional software to that or going around the software to then install applications or apps that aren't supported through Amazon Fire or Roku TV depending on what streaming device you are using to jailbreak", said Wiertel.
 
Although it may seem easy, jailbreaking could be dangerous to your device. "Obviously one of the fallbacks or pitfalls of jailbreaking obviously, you probably could reset the device to its factory defaults, but then when it's in its jailbroken form, it's not going to operate as it normally would in that controlled environment", explained Wiertel.
 
Wiertel said bypassing software to get free content is nothing new, but streaming made it far more prevalent. Wiertel gave some background of when this act began, "it goes back to the days of cable descramblers, if you go back fifteen to twenty years ago, people were buying cable descramblers to descramble signals on cable tv, yes that was illegal. You were getting access to services that you weren't paying for."
 
While this has happened before, that doesn't make it right. Wiertel said streaming services could take action to protect their trademarked products. "It might be that Amazon says 'hey we want to keep an open architecture to allow apps to run outside of our store'. But I could see just like the cable unscrambler buttons, those went away just like when the encryption caught up and once the cable systems could encrypt all the channels, those basically became a dinosaur overnight", said Wiertel.
 
We reached out to Define Wireless multiple times over several weeks and on Tuesday, they responded, describing how it works. According to Define Wireless, their host provides the content and servers and they buy in to the network. They say they are similar to the apps Pluto and Plex. Unlike other local apps they do not offer movies or series as they are not allowed to be stored on servers or broadcast. 
 
We asked for an interview, but have yet to hear back.