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BBC - BBC Internet Blog: BBC iPlayer on TV in your living room: update
On 2 March 2011, Virgin released an iPlayer application for their TiVo . Unlike the previous implementation, the application streams over the internet rather than utilising Virgin's video-on-demand service, in order to comply with the BBC's proposed syndication policy.
Virgin Media was forced to remove direct access to BBC content on TiVo, meaning that instead of being able to access BBC content through its backwards EPG, Virgin TiVo users must instead go through the Apps and Games area or press the Red Button from a BBC channel. The change also allows an increase in the amount of programmes available, from around 300 to 700 hours on average, bringing Virgin into line with the iPlayer on connected TV devices.
Virgin plan to reinstate the iPlayer back into the EPG sometime in the summer, but this will obviously need some work doing in order to make the implementation comply with the BBC's syndication policy.