Virgin Media doubles TiVo numbers; in talks with Lovefilm and Netflix

Virgin Media TiVo — Virgin Media has revealed that it's in talks with Lovefilm and Netflix to add streaming subscription movie services to its TiVo service.

The service, which already offers on-demand programming and recommendations, could soon be adding a subscription movie service, too, reports Bloomberg.

Virgin Media announced its first annual profit, of £75.9m, this morning, helped by a doubling in the number of customers with TiVo during Q4 of 2011.

There are now 435,000 TiVo customers, representing 12% of Virgin Media's television users.

The increase in TiVo users helped Virgin Media surpass 1 billion on-demand programme views in 2011, up 14% on the previous year.

133,000 new and existing customers also moved to the company's superfast broadband, helping overall revenue to increase 3% to £3.992 billion for 2011.

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