BBC iPlayer will stop working on select TV boxes across the UK this week.

Virgin Media has warned customers using older TiVo boxes to upgrade, as these older models will not support BBC iPlayer from July.

The change is only expected to impact a small number of customers, with a "vast majority" already owning newer models, including V6 and TV 360, which will be unaffected.

Virgin Media has offered a free upgrade to a select group of customers who still use a TiVo box.

BBC iPlayer will stop working on older TiVo boxes on Wednesday (July 23).

So customers will need the upgrade before then.

A Virgin Media spokesperson said: “We have written directly to the small proportion of customers with a TiVo box, who have used BBC iPlayer within the past six months, to inform them that their box will not........

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