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Sky Box & Telephone Caller ID
pete taylor
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Does anyone know if it would be possible for a Sky box to be developed to read telephone caller ID information from the phone line and flash it up on your TV screen if desired, providing your phone line was connected to the Sky box?
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were would they draw the line I don't think I would want Facebook pop ups all the time?
Also on the negative side I wouldn't want my number showing up on a friends screen in front of there guests, but I suppose that's what the hide my number functions for. IIRC a BT/easicom tv email box used to have display callers ID feature.
No, why should Sky spend the millions required writing and testing the software - for a feature of no interest to almost all their customers, and that wouldn't generate any income for them.
I never said they would, in fact, if you read my post, i do infact so why would they be interested, having not done so already
I wouldn't be surprised if they also get caller ID in on the price and not charged extra for it too.
Like most of the feature services, costs nothing or little to provide but generates a good extra income for the phone providers here.
I remember in the LCL/Diamond cable years these were free
Neither do BT (if you order it correctly).
Difference is BT don't display International numbers (or yet to see one), yet via other providers we get (even coop telecom) show them.. (tested via our usa landland)
And it wasn't that expensive either.