With a Fritzbox Cable connected to the cable connection, you can watch TV on your smartphone or laptop.This even works without cable Internet access.Watching TV without a TV – the option has become more and more interesting since there are TV cards, live TV apps and mobile projectors.Or a Fritzbox Cable.Because it also has an integrated DVB-C tuner, with which you can access the live TV program on your laptop or even your smartphone in the home network.We will show you how to set up and use the program for you:In order to watch TV via your Fritzbox Cable, you must first activate the live TV function in the user interface.You can do this via the browser on your PC or smartphone:Because the Fritzbox is now restarting, your WLAN is not accessible for a few minutes.You may have to reconnect your PC or smartphone to the WLAN of your Fritzbox afterwards.Once you're reconnected...After 5-15 minutes, the channel search is complete and - if everything worked - has found some TV and radio channels from your cable provider.In the menu above "Live TV" you can see which transmissions are currently active.You can run up to four streams at the same time - i.e. watch TV on four different devices at the same time.On "Channel list" you will find the programs that your cable provider offers you.Here you will find channels in SD and HD quality.HD has the higher resolution and gives you a better picture:In the next chapter we will show you how to watch the channels on your PC.Perhaps the easiest and cheapest (because it's free) is to watch cable TV via the Fritzbox Cable with the VLC player on your PC or Mac.In short, the VLC Player (original name: Video LAN Client) is a donation-financed, open-source player for almost every imaginable video and audio format.It works in its own version for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android or iOS.On the Fritzbox you first download a channel list, which you can then open on the VLC player:You can zap by clicking on "<<" or ">>".You end the program by clicking on the stop button or by simply exiting the VLC player.Important: If you close the VLC player, you will probably have to transfer the channel list again the next time you start it.To do this, simply drag and drop the channel list again onto the main window of the VLC player.So do not delete the channel lists once they have been downloaded.Your name is:By the way, if you plan to watch TV or listen to the radio in this way every day and use the VLC player, a small donation to the non-profit project would be fair.We mentioned it briefly above: your cable TV access usually also gives you access to some radio stations.You can also use the Fritzbox Cable to listen to the radio on your PC or laptop.In the TV on the PC chapter, we have described in detail how this works for TV stations and radio stations.Here again in a nutshell the instructions for radio stations:You can also zap here by clicking on "<<" or ">>".A click on the stop button ends the radio program.Watching TV with the Fritzbox on your smartphone is even easier than watching TV on your PC.Because Fritzbox provider AVM has developed the Fritz App TV for this purpose:As you can see, this is much easier than our method with the VLC player on the PC.AVM has simply put SD and HD channels in a practical overview and opens the channel lists right at the start.You can zap here with a tap on "<" or ">" on the left and right side of the video window.You end the current program when you return to the station overview or exit the app.For this contribution and the associated tests, we consulted the AVM service.We have the following tips for you from communication:You can also watch TV with the Fritzbox via a DSL or fiber optic connection - 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