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Virgin TV 360 Mini Boxes
I am considering moving from BT Broadband with an old style Sky+ box to Virgin Broadband and Virgin TV 360 with the Sports package. Connectivity of the Broadband router and main TV 360 box is fine as...
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hi Roy247 thanks for the reply. Our house has coaxial cabling throughout and coax points in each room. I have a Sky+ box currently which has an output I use to push out into the coaxial cabling which then provides a signal throughout the house for both terrestrial TV and whichever Sky channel the Sky+ box is on.
I am wanting the VM TV 360 box to do similar but sounds like it wont. I can get a couple of Mini 360 boxes but if they cant use the existing cabling could be a bit of a mess to run new cabling.
I want to use the VM TV 360 but seems limited to one room only for me.
Hi Kiki2,
You do need Virgin coax connections to each box and also a network connection, that can either be ethernet cable or wifi. It might be possible to run the coax around outside walls to where you want the mini boxes depending on your property and the mini box locations.
If you want to distribute the output from the V360 boxes to coax you need both a HDMI to Composite Video converter plus a modulator. A lot of kit for what is now sub-standard video (HD looks dreadful on a Composite connection).
What you cannot do is use your own coax system to distribute Virgin’s network. The frequencies used will actually conflict with Freeview/DAB radio if used on the same system. VMs coax is designed to keep these signals out as any ingress will corrupt the entire network segment, resulting in all the Virgin customers in the street getting disruption to or loss of their services.
Thanks all for the feedback. I am now much wiser about what my options are. I will have a think.
Do you know if Virgin offer a site survey type service where someone could come out and tell me where they will run the cables etc before I order?
