Posted 2 days ago
Virgin Stream or VBox What`s on offer?
Hi. Hoping for some help please. Currently I have SKY Q and a 2TB box with 5 mini boxes around the house. We`ve just had Virgin Media install fiber in our road so looking to have an equivalent set up with their equipment. I do NOTwant the stream option. I`m old school and prefer the hard drive in a box with "satellite" receivers around the house. If I go to Virgin site, all I see is the streaming option. Have they stopped the VBox or just pushing stream service (like Sky do with their Glass offering)? Thanks.
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sorted byIn these XGS Areas like yours, it's broadband only. So you can opt to add VM Stream but that's the closest you'll get to TV. There's no full featured cable service in these areas.
With Stream, you can't get multiroom either. So it's one box per household with fewer channels, lower quality feed, and no recording.
You options would be to take VM Broadband and keep Sky Q. Or to get VM Broadband and then get some YouView boxes of your own and use them on the VM Network. This will give you a more comprehensive TV service similar to Sky with as many boxes as you need including recording several channels at once. Extra channels can be added via Now TV on monthly packages - But these packages can only be streamed live or on-demand. No recording the premium channels.
If you MUST have the full featured TV option where you can record everything, your only two options now are Sky Q or BT/EE TV Pro. That's it.
You'll want a 360 box as the main box and Virgin mini boxes.