I'm not one for unboxing so I'll spoiler the pics below (it's the box and remote), but I got the Vbox and the Hitron modem yesterday. My services don't go live until the Aug. 2 but I figured I setup the Vbox to test it out and use it as an Android box until then.
The first thing I noticed was how small the box is. It's freaking tiny. It comes with a remote, batteries, HDMI, etc. One cool thing about the remote is that it has a keyboard on the reverse side and also has a mouse mode you can turn on and wave at the screen to click on things.
Configuring the box with the remote takes a little getting used just because it's obviously not pure Android and you have to deal with VMedia's UI. That said, once I got used to it and the different ways I was able to customize things I was happy with it. One weird thing that seems to happen though is if you download an app from the Play Store you can access it by going through the Play Store but it won't show in your apps folder unless you reboot the device. Not sure if it's like that for all apps because I only downloaded one app but yeah, minor inconvenience.
I plugged it directly into my Shaw modem and downloaded NFL Gamepass to check the video quality and it would only stream at 1600kbps, which obviously sucks, but turns out that it's actually the limitations of the Android app and not the Vbox. You can get a 4500Kbps stream using the browser version of Gamepass but I'm not sure if that'll work on the Vbox due to Android devices not having Flash (I know I can sideload). Looks like there's a Gamepass add-on for Kodi, so I'm going to give that a shot tonight and see what kind of quality I can get.
Oh, and a tip for Gamepass (I'll also post this in cutting the cord thread). The regular price in Canada is something like $324.99 for the entire season + playoffs and Super Bowl, but if you proxy yourself in New Zealand or Brazil you get for $250, which is almost the same price as NFL Sunday Ticket. I actually like Gamepass better than Sunday Ticket because you can watch condensed versions of the games where they basically cut all of the commercials, instant replay, etc., and just go play-to-play, which results in the games being about 30 min long (LOL, NFL), and it also has the all-22 coaches' footage if you want to go full football nerd.