Virgin Media users face massive shake-up this week -…

Virgin Media users face massive shake-up this week - here's how it will affect your account

Millions of Virgin Media customers face one of the biggest TV shake-ups in years tomorrow with the company confirming to Mirror Online that it is making some dramatic changes to its telly planner.

A total of 86 channels are being moved to new positions which means those who have memorised where their favourite shows and movies are broadcast will now have to learn some new numbers on their remote control.

The changes, which come into force from midnight on July 4, include services such as ITV +1, Discovery HD, MTV and Comedy Central +1 which all get new numbers on the planner. This reboot affects all of Virgin's set-top boxes including TiVo, V6, TV360 and its Stream device.

Virgin says it is making the changes to move popular general entertainment channels into more prominent numbers in the TV guide and +1 channels into a dedicated channel range between 300-399

Sadly, if you don't want things to be tinkered with there's no way to stop the update with Virgin saying things will happen automatically overnight.

It's worth noting that anyone who has set up future recordings shouldn't find they miss anything with Virgin's box making sure it stores the correct content from the new channel number.