I want to move over to a stream box
I'm actually trying to move over to a Stream Box from an existing V6/360 box because of ongoing issues with boxes always overheating and fan noise/HDD noise. I don't need the recording feature of the existing box, and something that runs much quieter and cooler would be idea. I rang customer services figuring it would be a welcome request as the 360 boxes are being killed off anyway. I was told it is not possible, the only way to do it was an additional £10/month fee and have it as a second box. This seems ridiculous. I'm actually trying to do VM a favour here as one of these days their dodgy hardware is going to set my house on fire. I was also hoping the Stream Box, which uses a different distribution mechanism (the broadband line not the dedicated TV coax) may resolve the sounds and sync issues which have emerged over the last few weeks and for which I am still awaiting a report back on some sort of fix. Was the customer service droid accurate, or could he just not be **bleep** doing what was necessary to recreate the existing package with a Stream Box rather than V6/360?
Is it possible to get a recording box with Stream?
We recently switched from Sky, where we'd been a customer for over 10 years. We hadn't realised when we switched that we'd only get the Stream box and that we can't record. At first it wasn't an issue, but not everything becomes available on the watchlist, and my husband is annoyed that we are paying for Sky Sports but he can't watch later if we're out; on Sky he'd be able to record his football matches and watch later in the day. This is the main reason why we wondered if it's possible to get a set top box to be able to record. Considering the additional cost for Sports it feels like a slap in the face to not be able to watch it later. Sky made us send back our Sky Q boxes so we can't switch back, and new contracts now only have their version of Stream! Why are these companies charging us so much money but we're losing the ability to record our entertainment to watch when we want?!Flex subscriptions dont work
I have been with Virgin for 13 years and never have I encountered such poor / non existent customer services! I signed up for Sky Sports during the £18.75 a month offer. But it has not activated. Customer services tell me they cant add it, as it needs to be done my end. But when I try to add the subscription I just get an error messages. The stream service is abysmal. Online chat keeps kicking me out. Then the bot comes back to ask the same stupid questions. No reply from my online complaint 2 weeks ago. Telephone support hang up on me and dont call back I was asked to send proof of my offer to narender bhatt at the virgin email address which I did, and still no reply!! Truly shocking experience. Looks like ill be missing the start to the F1 season!!Flex / stream not allowing subscriptions to be added
I have recently joined Virgin and had a Flex stream box installed. My first impression is that I'm very happy with the box, it is proving to be alot quicker than BT. However, I'm unable to manage my Stream Box subscriptions so I can't add/remove any subscriptions to the box (Sky Sports or TNT Sports etyc). When I try doing it through the box, I just get an error message telling me there's a technical problem at the moment and it shows me a QR code that takes me to virginmedia.com/manage-stream. When I use this link and log in to my account, I can see that Stream is on my account but when I click on Manage, I get an error message again and I'm unable to add or remove anything. This has been going on for five days now. I've checked online and found quite a few posts on this forum about this so I'm not the only one having this problem. However, I haven't been able to find any solutions to this. I have raised the issue with the help line and they sent out an engineer to change the box but that didnt work. The engineer then spent an hour on the phone trying to resolve the issue but without any joy. Having looked through old streams on this community it would appear that the box / account hasnt been activated correctly, in a previous stream from 2022 it was suggested that someone from Virgin help team send a "hit" to the box and that activated it. However I can not get through again on the help desk to make that suggestion. Has anyone else had this issue recently? Does anyone have any ideas of how to approach this and how to fix it? Based on previous posts, calling VM seems pointless as customer service don't seem to know what a Stream Box is. Is anyone on this forum able to help?TNT sports on stream box
Hello , I'm new here and recently ordered a stream box where i am told i can add extra subscriptions i am wanting to add sky sports and TNT for the football and UFC. My ex husband has virgin media and records the ufc due to the time its on. with the stream box i can not record ,but would i be able to access the ufc event the next day on stream ? this is a deal breaker for us, if we cant then i may have to just suck it up and change the order and pay the extra for the virgin package thanks in advance LyndsayStream / My Flex Plan Issue
I am looking for help with an ongoing issue with the ‘My Flex Plan’ page. I consistently get the message: Sorry, something's gone wrong! We're having some technical issues so we can't add this right now. Please try again later. I have tried to add services such as Disney+ through live chat and received the activation emails, but I have been unable to complete setup due to the loading issue. Does anyone have a fix for this?Help! Stream activation failure but being billed when have no content to watch
Hi, Elderly parent's (Dad who is David the account holder) account who give me authority to interface with VM on their behalf and is documented on VM records every contact as I'm their son John living at same address. Just before the last price increase on Stream box & before the name Flex became live I added Sky Sports HD (£18.75) & TNT Sports (£10) via their My VM account web portal but it failed to complete. I was straight on email to raise that I didn't want to re-sign this new 18 month contract that was made aware of afterwards not before but both bounced back saying can't contact VM via these addresses. Dad has VM emails mirrored on his phone but never said anything about any new emails recording these changes. Looking tonight they were still unread blush so we have missed this and they've not raised it to me. Having read the email history now a 18 new contract was issued adding the 2 channel packs. So I presumed it would be corrected when the prices went up as we would be paying less but didn't. Mum came at me in a raised voice on walking in from work tonight that VM had debited £123.20 when our contract is £71.00 without any non-inclusive charges for their anytime landline service and those 2 channel packs. Some of that was smoothing I tried to explain but bill said normally new price would be £100.00 (£71+£29). We have not had access to that content we've been billed for! How do we get this sorted out please? Can ring 150 at 8am tomoz to try to get a low wait time to connect to an agent? If forgetting the 2 channel packs going forward and staying at £71pm is an option without being hit with early disconnection fees that would be acceptable please? Cheers John/Dave/Moira.New but old, love this feature!
Hello all, As above, I'm new to Virgin Media but old in RL and I've already experienced Streaming from previous provider. However, I'm over the moon with this new feature (didn't have that before). When I turn on my set in the morning, I have my BBC news channel going into the right hand lower corner. Just one click and tada, I'm watching the news. Granted, an APP seems to be missing, the weather app. I guess it'll be available at a later time. Meanwhile, must admit that in my corner of Scotland, you can't rely on the current providers. They say it's sunny and warm but in reality, it's pouring rain and on the cool side 😹. I'm glad of the switcheroo. My FLEX is lightning ⚡ fast, good choices of apps, channels and more. So thanks VM!
