BBC Red button changes

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epsilon

26-02-2014

Originally Posted by mossy2103:
“Not a problem per se but something that would cost in order to set up and manage. And short-term requirements are likely to be fairly costly day for day compared to a longer-term requirement (as in any walk of life, business or otherwise)”

But that isn't something unique to providing an extended service on BBC Three. The additional costs would apply however they decide to bring additional short-term services to Freeview, whether by extending the hours of BBC Three or by providing additional RB streams. At least, by removing BBC Parliament for a short time, they use their own capacity and don't have the additional cost of renting space from Arqiva.

Sue_Aitch

25-07-2015

Red Button listings given each week on BBC Online.
See here http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/20669335
here http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/17151954
and there http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/tags/red-button

Ian Cleverly

05-08-2015

Text pages got a refresh today, colour wise. Entertainment was a light blue, now a purple. The actual page number 'border' was oval-ish is now square, and the prompt itself is more smaller.

anthony david

05-08-2015

Originally Posted by Ian Cleverly:
“Text pages got a refresh today, colour wise. Entertainment was a light blue, now a purple. The actual page number 'border' was oval-ish is now square, and the prompt itself is more smaller.”

First saw this yesterday and thought the TV had had a wobbler. It's hideous, perhaps the idea is to discourage people from using it so they can close it down.

Pizzatheaction

05-08-2015

The new colours are better for those of us with colour blindness. I couldn't read the Entertainment index on the old version without pressing the down arrow to highlight each box.

kasg

08-08-2015

Originally Posted by anthony david:
“First saw this yesterday and thought the TV had had a wobbler. It's hideous, perhaps the idea is to discourage people from using it so they can close it down.”

Not at all, I think the new look is cleaner and easier to read.

Sue_Aitch

08-08-2015

If it's clearer to read, surely that's all to the good?

kasg

08-08-2015

Originally Posted by Sue_Aitch:
“If it's clearer to read, surely that's all to the good?”

Not sure who that's aimed at, but that's pretty much what I said.

Sue_Aitch

08-08-2015

Just thought another positive reaction was worth posting. Now if only the live subtitling glitches could be sorted too that would be dandy. Yesterday we had "struggling to Klingon" instead of "cling on"

kasg

08-08-2015

Originally Posted by Sue_Aitch:
“Now if only the live subtitling glitches could be sorted too that would be dandy”

Maybe, but that's nothing to do with the Red Button service.

Sue_Aitch

08-08-2015

Quite, Subs advice is on page 888.

SonOfPurple

10-08-2015

It looks like page numbers have been taken off Freeview, unless it's just my telly playing up: the menus still operate as before, and the function to enter a page number remains, but all numbers are "not found" when you enter them, so you can't jump to, say, London/SE on 1620. Also, when you press blue for the 199 index, the service just hangs - all other functions appear to be running as normal.

The change means Help pages are now inaccessible - they were only available from the index or direct entry of 9990 - and CBBC/CBeebies remain available from their channel bridges but can't now be accessed from within the RB text pages, whilst full text can no longer be accessed from CBBC/CBeebies...

UPDATE: just had a look on Sky, the numbers are gone too, and choosing 'Index' at the base of the overlay takes you to a completely blank menu!
Last edited by SonOfPurple : 10-08-2015 at 12:36

a516

10-08-2015

Originally Posted by SonOfPurple:
“It looks like page numbers have been taken off Freeview, unless it's just my telly playing up: the menus still operate as before, and the function to enter a page number remains, but all numbers are "not found" when you enter them, so you can't jump to, say, London/SE on 1620. Also, when you press blue for the 199 index, the service just hangs - all other functions appear to be running as normal.

The change means Help pages are now inaccessible - they were only available from the index or direct entry of 9990 - and CBBC/CBeebies remain available from their channel bridges but can't now be accessed from within the RB text pages, whilst full text can no longer be accessed from CBBC/CBeebies...

UPDATE: just had a look on Sky, the numbers are gone too, and choosing 'Index' at the base of the overlay takes you to a completely blank menu!”

As of 13:12, the page numbers are there on Freeview, so direct access to page 9990 is restored. For now.

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