on 06-10-2024 13:23
Hi,
I just have Virgin Media coaxial cable M250 broadband. That's it.
Does Virgin Media offer a TV Box/Stick with remote control where I can watch live TV channels via Wi-Fi, no coaxial cable is required to be plugged into the TV box? Everything is through the Wi-Fi Internet. When I say live TV I am talking about freeview/freesat channels. Does the TV box support wi-fi 6?
When I went on YouTube to check virgin media tv services it is like in the 90s with so many coaxial cables, splitters, ethernet cables that puts me off. Isn't it wireless wi-fi?
Can I have multiple TV boxes in the same house?
06-10-2024 14:50 - edited 06-10-2024 14:51
VM do offer a Stream box that works totally off of WiFi. The bad news is that if you are in one of their legacy cable franchise areas you are restricted to one of these per account. If you want multi room you have no option but to go with the broadcast product, which requires coax to everything for the live TV.
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on 06-10-2024 14:55
As nodrogd mentioned VM has the stream box.
However it's definitely worth keeping in mind Sky Stream which works in much a similar way and would work very well with VM broadband and might be a little cheaper.
on 06-10-2024 15:47
How did you access YouTube? Was it through a smart TV? Most (all?) TVs these days have wifi access and an inbuilt set of apps to stream TV. See https://www.cordbusters.co.uk/
on 06-10-2024 16:15
This is what you get from Stream, note that recording is not available.
https://www.virginmedia.com/virgin-tv-edit/tips-and-tricks/stream-from-virgin-media-channel-guide