Freeview on Virgin Media

[bclark1605]

Can I watch the free view channels if I have a Virgin media connetion. I subscribe to broadband. If i can get the free channels what equipment do i need?

Thanks

[gmb45]

you can only watch virgim media tv with one of their boxes, unless you want to go down the cardshare route with the starview 6-7 and kryptview A750-780 but these boxes are unreliable and illegal,( google for info on c/s ) why dont you just get a normal terrestrial ( dvb-t ) freeview box ?20 ish if its just freeview you want.

[pantomime horse]

Can I watch the free view channels if I have a Virgin media connetion. I subscribe to broadband. If i can get the free channels what equipment do i need?

Thanks

if you have an itgate or any other linux box

you can get free to air cable channels by connecting to cable feed

but remember it will only be free to air channels

[pantomime horse]

you can only watch virgim media tv with one of their boxes, unless you want to go down the cardshare route with the starview 6-7 and kryptview A750-780 but these boxes are unreliable and illegal,( google for info on c/s ) why dont you just get a normal terrestrial ( dvb-t ) freeview box ?20 ish if its just freeview you want.

the guy is asking about FTA channels so any linux box should work

I know my itgate 210 and 200 still give FTA cable channels anyway

[Sirus]

You still only get about 10 fta chnls with 3rd party cable boxes. A fair load of free typical ones are encrypted, although I'd say if you had an original box with the N3 card(even without a package) then the card would clear those fta chnls also... I think that's their hustle this time round.

3rd party cable boxes are useless for fta.. best just using regular freeview

[gmb45]

these are the channels that was left after nag3-->

BBC1
BBC2
BBC3 / CBBC
BBC4 / CBEEBIES
BBC News
BBC Red Button (ETVS10-16)
ITV
ITV2+1
ITV3+1
ITV4+1
CITV (ITV_hid2)
Channel 4
Channel 4+1
Five
CNBC
some shopping channels

not sure if they still are tho