Press Green to watch from start

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Orry Verducci 14 May 2018 1:19pm

That's a 'smart' tv overlay. I know on mine you press exit to clear it. Green still removes MHEG prompts.

Unless the BBC has started rolling out HbbTV, the overlay probably is an MHEG prompt, just one that's be programmed to only appear on smart TV's.

MHEG doesn't actually have a way of showing prompts before you load a service (unlike Sky), so when you see a prompt it's actually an MHEG application that has loaded but is programmed to show only an overlay instead of a full service. As such they can programme it to use any button to trigger an action, green in this case, and any button to remove, usually green, or indeed none at all.

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Mike516 15 May 2018 2:16pm

Orry Verducci posted:

Andrew Wood posted:

That's a 'smart' tv overlay. I know on mine you press exit to clear it. Green still removes MHEG prompts.

Unless the BBC has started rolling out HbbTV, the overlay probably is an MHEG prompt, just one that's be programmed to only appear on smart TV's.

MHEG doesn't actually have a way of showing prompts before you load a service (unlike Sky), so when you see a prompt it's actually an MHEG application that has loaded but is programmed to show only an overlay instead of a full service. As such they can programme it to use any button to trigger an action, green in this case, and any button to remove, usually green, or indeed none at all.

Yes, the BBC has rolled out HbbTV.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2017-12-bbc-hbbtv-interactive-tv

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223 18 May 2018 2:04pm

I've not seen the 'press Green' feature yet. I am on youview with Talk Talk.

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DVB Cornwall 18 May 2018 3:30pm

I believe this to be a Freeview Play feature and therefore will only be available, confusing as it may be, only on that flavour of Freeview device, plain receivers and YouView being excluded.

Last edited by DVB Cornwall on 18 May 2018 3:54pm

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clh 18 May 2018 5:17pm

We have a Sony YouView Android TV and get the new press green button

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MrFraggle 22 July 2018 11:21am

Is it possible to remove the prompt permanently as I will never ever use it and although a minor annoyance an annoyance all the same?

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Brekkie 22 July 2018 11:51am

Must admit it is annoying me now. Does go off eventually but they could half the time it is there really. It's also rather big too. You can clear it but then you have a Press RED prompt to clear as well, and the old trick of pressing green to do that ends up taking you to the iPlayer as the green link still remains.

Last edited by Brekkie on 22 July 2018 2:09pm - 2 times in total

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clh 22 July 2018 12:18pm

Press Yellow and/or Blue to remove HbbTV prompts. (This is what the BBC have said)

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Stuart 22 July 2018 3:00pm

I suppose it's no less annoying than the ones on Sky announcing that a "Series link has been created" simply because you watched something on iPlayer or one of the other CUTV services/Box Sets.

I have woken up more than a few times in the middle of the night to discover that my Sky STB has merrily created such a link and carried on downloading and playing 4 or 5 episodes of something while I was slumbering in my pit.