MHEG5 Captions on DTT

I don't know about the other people on here who have DTT, but I for one am getting feed up of seeing that red MHEG caption appear at the bottom of the screen whenever I either switch onto a BBC channel that is showing news, or when the news begins say on BBC ONE.

For those of you who don't know, on DTT since News Interactive launched on DSat, on DTT we've been given a nice little caption that appears at the bottom of the screen in a semi-transparent red, which informs us that by pressing the red button, we can access news and so on from BBCi text. This remains on screen for perhaps 5-10 seconds.

Whilst I didn't mind this up until about a week ago, I'm now starting to get a little feed up with it appearing everytime I switch to BBC News 24, or over to BBC1 during the Six O'Clock news, for example. I know perfectly well now that I can get to news headlines during BBC News programmes by pressing red - I don't need this ramming down my throat anymore. When I got DTT it was for the superior widescreen picture and surround sound - not to have a bloody caption plastered over a proportion of the screen every so often.

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Yup - I have DTT, have noticed it, and am now thoroughly tired of it. Can't remember it for sure but I think it was first introduced for Wimbledon last year, then used for Walking With Beasts.

The 'quicker' solution to waiting the 5 seconds is to quickly hit the EPG [Info] button then to hit it again before the big green onDigital banners appear. That takes approx 2.5 seconds. Either way its a pain in the ass.

For those who don't have it, if you are capturing/video-taping from onDigital (as it still appears on-screen), the MHEG and EPG data is all over the recording. Handy when you are taping The Simpsons: displaying the episode title for a few secs at the start of the recording saves time when looking for a favourite. The problem with MHEG info is that you have no choice. God forbid I had a capture card and were trying to grab a nice clean digital title sequence from BBC News!

Still, the BBC are pioneering this type of thing so hats off to them. Perhaps we should drop a few emails their way? They may change to the 'Red Dot' that Sky Digi viewers have.

We don't just get a red dot on Sky Digital.

On the SKY channels we do, but the Beeb treat us to a damn great red oblong, top right of the screen, saying something like 'Press Red Now'.

I too am fed up with it, as when you press 'back-up' to get rid of it, it comes back about a minute later.

On cable we don't get any of that stuff so therefore no red dot and 'press red'! There are small blessings for such a crap service!