Last month Virgin Media promised BBC Red Button support would deploy in April – and they’ve delivered on that promise:
We’re very happy to announce that BBC Red Button is now available to Virgin Media TiVo customers. The features available include video news, full length text articles from the BBC News website and coverage of F1 season that is always up to date and available whenever you want to watch. Later this year the BBC Sport Red button services will be extended to cover other major events e.g. Euro 2012, Wimbledon and Olympics.
If you’re watching any BBC channel, just press the red button on your TiVo remote. Then arrow up or down to choose iPlayer or the News or Sports app, then select OK. Or you can select the BBC News or Sports app from the ‘Apps & Games’ section of your TiVo menu.
The new service is being rolled out to everyone over the next 24 hours, so don’t worry if you can’t see it yet.
Thanks
Mark Wilkin
Help & Support Forum Manager
Actually they started deploying it a week ago, on April 11th, I’m just a little behind on my reporting.
