Television in the Home Network on the Tablet, Smartphone and PC

The FRITZ!Box distributes the TV signal of your cable connection throughout the home network. With FRITZ!App TV or other software you can receive all of the free-to-air digital television channels available with your cable connection on a PC, notebook, tablet or smartphone.

Features

With the FRITZ!Box you have the following possibilities in your home network.

  • Receive four TV programs simultaneously.
  • Multiple devices can receive the four channels at the same time and select between them.
  • Electronic program guides are transmitted along with teletext, alternative audio channels and subtitles.

Requirements

  • The FRITZ!Box is connected to your cable connection.
  • Suitable TV software is installed on computers, tablets and smartphones with which you would like to receive TV programs.

TV Software

Tablets and smartphones receive television broadcasts especially conveniently with FRITZ!App TV. FRITZ!App TV is available for free from Google Play and from the App Store.

PCs and notebooks receive television channels using the free VLC media player or comparable software. Get the VLC media player at http://www.videolan.org/vlc.

Instructions: Watching Television with FRITZ!App TV

FRITZ!App TV receives all free-to-air channels available at the cable connection which your FRITZ!Box found during its channel search. The channel search starts automatically once the FRITZ!Box has been connected.

  1. Start FRITZ!App TV on your tablet or smartphone.

    The channel list appears in FRITZ!App TV.

  2. Select a channel.

    The program will be played. FRITZ!App TV is operated as follows:

FunctioniOSAndroid
Switch channels Wipe Wipe
Exit program Pinch fingers Back
Back to channel list Exit Back

Instructions: Watching Television with VLC Media Player

With the VLC media player you can receive all free-to-air channels available at the cable connection which your FRITZ!Box found during its channel search. The channel search starts automatically once the FRITZ!Box has been connected.

  1. Start the VLC media player.
  2. Open the user interface of the FRITZ!Box.
  3. Select "DVB-C / Channel List".
  4. In the "Channel List for VLC Player" section of the window, click with the right mouse button on "Create Channel List".
  5. Select the command "Save destination to ..." or "Save link to..." and enter a storage location.

    A file with the name "tvsd.m3u" will be saved for SD channels or "tvhd.m3u" for HD channels.

  6. Drag the file and drop it into the window of the VLC media player.

    The available channels will be displayed.

  7. Select a channel.

    The program will be played.

Instructions: Restarting a Channel Search

  1. Open the FRITZ!Box user interface.
  2. Select "DVB-C / Channel Search".
  3. Click on "Start Channel Search".

    The channel search may take several minutes. The channels found or updated are listed in the "Channel List" menu.