Virgin Media Stream TV - New Streaming box

No UHD - only HD for sky sports and tnt sports. They do have a red button sky sports plus service. Not sure how it compares to sky service. If you order Tv you would get a 360 streaming box.

Yes had RTE and Channel 4 App for a limited time.

Eurosport shut down in the UK and Ireland alas. Much missed!

I think TNT Sports took on some of their content (eg cycling, tennis), but they have to be paid for as a separate premium sports package.

Set a VPN to Australia and go to 9now. They're showing it.

The 360TV box still has RTE Player (Virgin Media version) Channel 4 etc etc, under On Demand → Catchup → RTE Player, Virgin Media Player, TG4 etc and of course can record RTE and BBC on local hard disk in TV360 Box, and timeshift on RTE (no fast forward though they want you to watch the ads) and with a lot of other channels too you can timeshift through the ads.. In my case even though FTTH is eminent but won't be rushing to move over as have 1Gb broadband on coax and would be forced over to using their new streaming box (beermat sized) and no recording of RTE or BBC etc, case of better the devil you know..

My 360 box has a faulty HDD so I'm thinking about this stream box, two questions, do I need to get fiber cable installed to the box directly from outside? and two, is it any good for recording bbc, c4 and rte? Thanks

Anyone with a 360 box and a hard drive should hold on to it for as long as they can. I now have fibre fitted outside my house but I am still on the HFC network. Unless they change rules and let you record BBC, RTE or CH4 I will drop the Tv part completely if I switch over to fibre.

You can go back on the guide and just replay a programme on some channels as if you recorded them, no it’s not through the players but as I said it doesn’t include BBC or RTE afaik. You can record some channels also but again not BBC, RTE or C4.

You can’t record any Channel 4 anymore afaik because they’ve just recently added the Channel 4 app.

It mightn’t need to be using Virgin Media broadband to work but you can’t get the streaming box without also getting Virgin broadband.

Sky Stream is the only streaming TV you can get without also having to get the provider’s broadband.

Tempted by a very good offer from Virgin for broadband, phone and tv, can anyone who has Virgin Stream tell me if " recording " RTE is the same as Sky Stream, ie you put the programme on some kind of watch list or play list and when you want to watch it, the box digs the programme out of the RTE Player for you ? And presumably forces you to watch adverts ?

Can you demand a 360 recording box instead of one of those shoite streaming pucks? Got one of those in the last week from eir. No recording of BBC or RTE makes it next to useless. Looking to cancel eir within cooling off period. Just left sky so hoping virgin is an alternative? But might end up be with maybe the Mrs recontacting to sky.

House is connected for both openeir ftth and I think Virgin ftth.. but I'll double check the virgin connection.

Seems like I'll have to get the Mrs to try signing up for sky

I have a Virgin Media 360 Box but haven't watched it in about two years we mostly watch Netflix. I've recently found myself needing to record Match of the Day on BBC1.

We are a concession customer so we don't pay for TV (they offered me free TV for Life years ago as I let them dig up my garden to lay cables for the entire road)

My question is they came out about a month ago to prepare the road for fibre and they mentioned to my wife that once the fibre is installed my analogue box (coax?) will become obsolete and they will swap out my equipment for the new streaming box.

I take it that means I cannot record BBC anymore?