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digiperson
noggin posted:
Brekkie posted:
Spencer For Hire posted:
Slightly o/t, but it does bug me (no pun intended) when broadcasters use footage from other channels with the press red DOG still showing on screen.

This is particularly noticeable at the moment on ITV and C4 news when they show Olympic footage from the BBC, with the Olympics Press Red bug on all reports.

Surely someone could set the 'Interactive Icon Timeout' to On on their Sky box (or disable the MHEG if they're using DTT).



That really irritates me too - it's not that difficult to do, and you'd thinkg for the purposes they use the pictures for they'd want as clean a picture as possible.

I do think though it's wrong the BBC leave the press red DOG on screen - I'm sure they used to fade out after 30 seconds or so.


If you want to get rid of the BBC dog on Freeview, press GREEN.


Yep, press green on Freeview, back up on Sky and blue on Virgin Media.

digiperson
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Stuart
digiperson posted:
Yep, press green on Freeview, back up on Sky and blue on Virgin Media.

On Sky you can set it to automatically timeout after a pre-selected period in the "picture settings" menu. There doesn't seem to be a similar setting on the Freeview menu on my iDTV though.
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Brekkie
The EPG for next week now has 301/302 listed as showing "BBC Red Button" from Monday once the Olympics coverage is over.
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noggin Founding member
StuartPlymouth posted:
digiperson posted:
Yep, press green on Freeview, back up on Sky and blue on Virgin Media.

On Sky you can set it to automatically timeout after a pre-selected period in the "picture settings" menu. There doesn't seem to be a similar setting on the Freeview menu on my iDTV though.


Yep - Freeview doesn't have a unified user interface as Sky do - so implementations of functions like this are at the discretion of the manufacturer.

The Press Green bit is an addition by the BBC to their software application - rather than a function built into the receiver.
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bilky asko
noggin posted:
StuartPlymouth posted:
digiperson posted:
Yep, press green on Freeview, back up on Sky and blue on Virgin Media.

On Sky you can set it to automatically timeout after a pre-selected period in the "picture settings" menu. There doesn't seem to be a similar setting on the Freeview menu on my iDTV though.


Yep - Freeview doesn't have a unified user interface as Sky do - so implementations of functions like this are at the discretion of the manufacturer.

The Press Green bit is an addition by the BBC to their software application - rather than a function built into the receiver.


The green button trick works on all prompts except QVC and when you go directly to 301/302.
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gottago
bilky asko posted:
noggin posted:
StuartPlymouth posted:
digiperson posted:
Yep, press green on Freeview, back up on Sky and blue on Virgin Media.

On Sky you can set it to automatically timeout after a pre-selected period in the "picture settings" menu. There doesn't seem to be a similar setting on the Freeview menu on my iDTV though.


Yep - Freeview doesn't have a unified user interface as Sky do - so implementations of functions like this are at the discretion of the manufacturer.

The Press Green bit is an addition by the BBC to their software application - rather than a function built into the receiver.


The green button trick works on all prompts except QVC and when you go directly to 301/302.
And The Hits/4Music which just brings up their ringtone page... which doesn't actually appear to have any ringtones on!

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