> I've just got Freesat HD, and it's amazing to see the best > picture quality that the BBC broadcast. But then they go and > spoil it with a DOG in the corner. It's almost worth > reverting to watching the program on BBC 1. > If they must have a logo, do it with MHEG and enable the exit > button (like how it says Press Red).
As a wise man once said to me - the problem with allowing you to turn such things off, is that people will switch them off! There's some stuff on the BBC Internet blog about BBC HD's DOG http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/10/dogs_on_the_blog.html But on a purely technical level, we wouldn't be able to use the same mechanism to provide the DOG as we use for the press RED on Sky and Virgin as, IIRC, you can only have one graphic up at a time, and that would mean we wouldn't be able to do press reds [1], or things like Press Green to set reminders. And as the video comes from the same underlying data source for all four TV platforms, you couldn't easily make them turnoffable on Freesat and Freeview, and not on Sky and Virign [1] some would say this is a good thing. Personally I couldn't possibly comment... - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
