on 24-04-2022 08:17
Hi
I am due to move to Virgin from Sky Q and have heard that I need to have a TV aerial to receive channels such as BBC1, BBC2, ITV etc.
I am having a second mini box installed and I think that I was told that an engineer would need to install additional cabling.
My Sky Q mini box didn't require any cabling whatsoever so why is Virgin different?
Any advice would be appreciated as I am beginning to have second thoughts about switching.
Many thanks
on 24-04-2022 08:58
@LBWILTS wrote:I am due to move to Virgin from Sky Q and have heard that I need to have a TV aerial to receive channels such as BBC1, BBC2, ITV etc.
That's not correct - VM carry the PSB channels in EPG positions 101, 102, 103 etc. You can view all the channels Virgin Media carry, at the bottom of this page . There's nothing stopping you from having a terrestrial antenna installed and using that with any inbuilt Freeview tuner that your TV may have - but you don't need to do so.
@LBWILTS wrote:My Sky Q mini box didn't require any cabling whatsoever so why is Virgin different?
Virgin Media is a cable operator unlike Sky. All VM TV boxes need 2 connections..
1: The physical co-ax cable is what carries your live TV channels.
2: The internet connection (be it Ethernet cabled or wireless) is used for OnDemand, streaming and various updates.
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