BBC Red Button redesigned

BBC Red Button on Freeview has changed it's colour schemes. Everything except the kids sections now has a consistent light grey background with dark grey items and articles, with a particular colour used for the selected article title and the box underneath the TV frame (red for news, yellow for sport, orange for travel, blue for weather, purple for entertainment, and black for the help pages). CBBC's pages have also been fixed so that the bottom of the TV frame is no longer obscured, though it otherwise looks much the same. And the box holding the page number now has square corners instead of round ones.

Have similar changes happened on cable and satellite?

Worth noting that there are, I think, two satellite services.

Freesat uses MHEG5 for Digital Text (the same standard as Freeview), whereas Sky uses OpenTV middleware (I think - they certainly did at one point). The BBC broadcasts their digital text service using both standards.

Alas it seems that Sony have now hard wired the Connected Red button into their receivers, I can't switch to see this.

Ah well.

Same old tired NTL-a-thon on Vermin Media.

Although I haven't looked properly into the service, the Press Red icon on the BBC on Sky has certainly changed.

likewise on Freeview - I didn't think to press red to see what was different.

There's normally an option in the Connected Red Button settings to revert to the old over-the-air service, but you have to dig for it.

A quick check on BBC One HD and Connected Red Button is by default on my LG set, while it also gives me the option to use the old style MHEG service by going to More and Settings.

The 'Press' text on the icon is now uppercase. Apart from that, I can see no visual change to the text service on Sky.

No one seems have noticed the Press Red prompt no longer suppresses itself after 30 seconds on Freeview, which it has until now. You can press green to kill it manually still, but it's another retrograde step of a DOG by stealth

I noticed the Press Red prompt had changed, I just didn't get a chance to come on here to enquire about until now. It looks cleaner and sharper, which it never did before, probably due to the colours used.

It is pretty much a legacy service now though personally I still use it daily - it's easier to read and watch TV with than the connected red button services and it's handy to get the news in brief paragraphs, something the app doesn't offer.

I do wish they'd just tidy up the numbering now Ceefax is long gone - they don't have to go the route of numbering individual pages but the 4 figure codes could surely now be dropped.