Citations:dodgy box

English citations of dodgy box and dodgy boxes

Noun

• Cormac Murphy (21 April 2008) "Crackdown on illegal 'dodgy box' decoders" Evening Herald (Dublin)

  UPC Ireland, the country's cable TV provider, has hit back at owners of the so-called 'dodgy boxes' by scrambling network codes to block out illegal viewers. The decoders can be bought for a once-off payment of €110 and give owners access to more than 130 channels.

• Jan Battles (18 January 2009) One in five cable customers has a ‘dodgy box’ The Sunday Times (Irish edition):

  Almost one in five Irish cable television customers has an illegal decoder to unscramble channels that they are not paying for, according to industry estimates.

• Billy Keane (6 April 2015) "The tale of the man who really has it all figured out" Irish Independent; reprinted as "Meet The Man Who Has It All Figured Out" in The best of Billy Keane (Ballpoint Press, 2016) →ISBN p. 122:

  There's a large ear on the gable wall bringing TV in through a dodgy box.

• Aoife Dooley (2016) "NETFLIX AND CHILL" HOW TO BE MASSIVE (Dublin: Gill) →ISBN p. 125

  IF YE DONT HAVE NETFLIX THEN THE DODGY BOX WILL DO.

• 2017 April 26, Gordon Hunt "Are dodgy boxes illegal? The EU has its say" Silicon Republic

  Earlier this week, eBay announced it was removing pre-loaded dodgy boxes, meaning those with Kodi Android software already on them.

• 2017 June 30, Ian O'Riordan, "Pat Hickey interview avoids the hard questions" The Irish Times p. 6 Sports

  The Untouchables showed up on our dodgy box during the week, right on that scene where Al Capone is attending a performance of the opera Pagliacci.

• 2018 December 10, Brian O'Connor "When will sport on subscription TV reach a breaking point?" The Irish Times p. 10 Sports

  The modern equivalent of the ‘dodgy box’ is illegal streaming.

• Lisa McInerney (13 May 2021) "Track 10: Tall Tales" The Rules of Revelation (John Murray) →ISBN

  'I got one of them set-top boxes,' her father said, without looking over.

  'It's a dodgy box,' Ryan said.

  'It is not. I got it from one of the lads, it's preloaded, that's all, it's not dodgy.'

  'That's the definition of dodgy,' Ryan said.

• 2022 February 22 thread Twitter

  @JohnzoHayze: I love the way we Irish as a nation just decided to universally refer to fire sticks as the “dodgy box”

  @EoinDonovan98: There's a difference between a "dodgy box" and a "fire stick".

• hail_hail (30 April 2023) "Celtic v Zombies - Live Match Thread || FT: 1-0 (Jota)" (post 87) Kerrydale Street

  I paid for Via play to ensure I got a quality reliable stream and the stream on Amazon is awful. I'm getting a better stream on my dodgy box.

• Conor Pope (6 October 2023) "Dodgy boxes: Could I end up in court if I own one?" The Irish Times

  Then there came the legally questionable dodgy boxes. They plug into a television and if they have certain apps installed users can stream content directly from the internet on to their televisions.