Andrew Bowden wrote: >> 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!
But they are only on to aid changing channels. It would appear every time to change channels to BBC HD until you press exit on your remote. It could reappear during the continuity announcement between programmes - I don't think most people would mind having to press exit once per program. > 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 Just make it a single graphic that says: +---------+ |<> BBC HD| |Press Red| +---------+ You could even be clever and have the first press of the exit key remove the press red, and the second remove the whole thing. Robert (Jamie) Munro
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