iPlayer, YouTube etc.).Īt present, no long contracts are involved with Stream, which means you can add or cancel TV add-on packs or subscriptions every month if so desired, and it can all be paid for via a single monthly bill. So we’ve packed faves like Sky Sports, Sky Cinema, and Netflix (if you subscribe), as well as the free channels you can’t live without (like BBC, ITV, and Channel 4), into one clever little box – and put you in charge.” A total of 40 “ free channels” (they mean Freeview) and various “ favourite” apps (e.g. The latest invites for this make no mention of it being a trial, although confusingly a spokesperson for VMO2 informed us that it was.Īs the related customer invite page states: “ We think entertainment should be simple. The new Virgin Media Stream product essentially supplies a modified version of the palm-sized “ mini box” device that they already offer alongside their premium Virgin TV 360 service, albeit without an internal hard disc and with modified TV360 code.
More recently, the CEO of VMO2, Lutz Schueler, appeared to confirm that the final product would launch before the end of 2021 ( here). But this time there’s no mention of a trial.īack in April 2021 we reported that Virgin Media had begun wider trials of a new TV streaming product ( here), which would be a similar solution to Sky’s rival Now TV platform, albeit one that is only available to Virgin’s own broadband customers (at least for now). Some of Virgin Media’s (VMO2) UK ultrafast broadband ISP customers, specifically those who don’t already take their Pay TV service, are once again being invited to take their long-awaited TV streaming ( IPTV) product – simply called ‘Stream’ – and it will come “ at no extra cost“.