Live TV Without Cable Box

Funtela · Feb 6, 2014

Is there any way to watch live TV on my XBone without having a cable box ? Maybe using one of my or one of my friend's Uverse/Xfinity online account ? I'm mainly asking because I want to start watching The Walking Dead when it returns & I don't have a cable
box in my room.

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BlandNumber4 · Feb 6, 2014

setting up live TV on 2nd TV without cable box.

I have xbox one set up on my 2nd TV without cable box. I am with time warner cable. Main TV has cable box. Is their a way to set up 2nd TV? 2nd TV is connected to cable without box.

x24hrs2livex · Feb 6, 2014

Xbox One TV w/ No Cable Box *Help*

Do you have a cable box? Or did you think you could watch tv without having a cable box?

Matthew Marion · Feb 7, 2014

The Xbox One needs a cable box to be able to switch channels.. You can plug in any HDMI enabled device to the HDMI pass-through on the Xbox One but it will only give you the image that device is sending. When you have a cable box attached, the Xbox one is
able to change the channel that box outputs through IR, effectively controlling the cable box. You can connect a computer (that has a video card with HDMI out) to it and watch stuff online, or if you have a cable subscription for your other rooms you can use
some apps that require authentication with those subscriptions like FoxNow or FXNow, I don't know if any of them will be streaming The Walking Dead though. I wouldn't count on it. If your provider has its own app it may be available through there.

Matthew Marion

The Xbox One needs a cable box to be able to switch channels.. You can plug in any HDMI enabled device to the HDMI pass-through on the Xbox One but it will only give you the image that device is sending. When you have a cable box attached, the Xbox one is
able to change the channel that box outputs through IR, effectively controlling the cable box. You can connect a computer (that has a video card with HDMI out) to it and watch stuff online, or if you have a cable subscription for your other rooms you can use
some apps that require authentication with those subscriptions like FoxNow or FXNow, I don't know if any of them will be streaming The Walking Dead though. I wouldn't count on it. If your provider has its own app it may be available through there.

x24hrs2livex

Do you have a cable box? Or did you think you could watch tv without having a cable box?

oROLLNxTHUNDERo

So without a cable box just plug the xbox one HDMI cable to the tv and the kinect to the back ?

MaximumExtreme

I'm wording if its possible to turn the cable box on without having to turn on the X1 when the cable box is conned to the X1 and not the tv itself. Hmmmm?

BigHemi45

HD component cables for my cable box into my TV and the HDMI for my cable box Into the X1 so I can watch it with or without the X1. My surround works perfectly when watching TV through the X1 with this set up.

Live TV Without Cable Box