[5] VBox TV Gateway technology was first used in its XLV Professional product line unveiled at the Satellite 2006 Show in Washington, D.C., targeting the hospitality, digital signage and enterprise markets.
[6] It debuted at the Mobile World Congress ShowStoppers event in Barcelona, Spain on February 23, 2014[7] and was first reviewed by CNET UK.
[8] VBox Home TV Gateway is a network TV tuner and digital video recorder providing both front and back ends, capable of recording and streaming multiple channels to multiple devices at the same time.
[9] Unlike standard set-top boxes it does not have an HDMI or other video or audio outputs that directly connect a television, instead its multiple DVB tuners receives the live TV RF signal from satellite, cable TV or terrestrial antenna and streams the decoded video over a local area network to any UPnP-enabled player such as a smart phone, tablet computer, smart TV, computer, or game console.
All VBox Home TV Gateway devices support free-to-air (FTA) content, models that end with CI also support encrypted pay TV content with single or dual Conditional-access module (CAM) Common Interface (CI) slots; there is no support for CI+ CAMs.