topic Re: Apple TV 4K used away from home in TV

Apple TV 4K used away from home

603090569 — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 15:12:18 GMT

Obviously Apple TV 4K is meant to be used with EE Broadband, but if I was to use it away (e.g. if I travel to another city for a night or two) would the EE TV app and the freeview channels/EPG still work despite being on a separate Internet connection?

Or is it the same as the TV Box Pros where they require connection to your EE Broadband in order to stream live channels

Re: Apple TV 4K used away from home

Profile closed — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 15:37:22 GMT

@603090569 wrote:
Obviously Apple TV 4K is meant to be used with EE Broadband, but if I was to use it away (e.g. if I travel to another city for a night or two) would the EE TV app and the freeview channels/EPG still work despite being on a separate Internet connection?
Or is it the same as the TV Box Pros where they require connection to your EE Broadband in order to stream live channels

I’m going to make an educated guess that the live TV channels will only work in the EE TV app when connected to EE broadband, more for security reasons and the deal they had to do to get channels on the box in the first place than anything else.

@DarrenDev can probably confirm. The EE TV app channels on the Apple TV use Unicast, not Multicast like the Pro Box, so there is no technical reason (connection via a Smart Hub), needed in that sense.

Otherwise, you can take the Apple TV 4K with you if you wish and watch via the installed apps, including live versions of channels, just not I suspect, the ones via the EE TV app.

Just use iPlayer, itvX, Channel 4, My5, NOW and Discovery+ apps instead.

Re: Apple TV 4K used away from home

Midnight_Voice — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 15:50:14 GMT

@603090569

They don’t have to be on your EE broadband, but they have to be on somebody’s EE broadband, and there they will use the EETV account that is on that broadband (if any) not your account.

So for most practical purposes, the answer is no, it won’t work.

But anything that the Apple TV Box can do outside of the EETV functions, it can do just as well in another city. i.e. anything a non-EETV Apple TV box can do, so it may still be useful to take it travelling, as long as you just use the regulars apps it provides.

Re: Apple TV 4K used away from home

DarrenDev — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 17:19:33 GMT

Spot on @Midnight_Voice - the subscription is on the broadband line, not the device.

Re: Apple TV 4K used away from home

Midnight_Voice — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 21:07:44 GMT

@DarrenDev

Indeed - I was quoting an acknowledged expert on the subject (bows) 😛