When Virgin Media announced that it was to make a Freeview box available to customers not able to get cable TV in their area, internet speculation was rife that it would be an IPTV box offering on-demand content to rival BT Vision's offering.
Well, we received our V-Box Free TV this morning and we can confirm that it's a Freeview adapter and nothing more.
Well a bit more. It uses relatively little energy and you can mount it vertically and horizontally or attach it to the back of your flatscreen TV out of sight and control it via remote eye for a start. In fact, if it looks familiar that's because it's practically a re-badged, slightly re-designed version of TVonics MDR-200 adapter. We're rather fond of that particular £50 effort even though it's a little on the expensive side. Virgin is asking for £40 for the V-box-Free TV from broadband subscribers excluding those who susbcribe to its 'up to' 8MB broadband and Talk Anytime bundle who can get one free.
A Virgin Media spokeswoman told "A World of Digital" that Virgin is 'keen to introduce more advanced services (such as IPTV or PVR) further down the line'.
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