Published on 26 September 2006 in BBC red button, Interactive TV, Work, BBC, BBC red button, interactive television
Today was another big day in BBCi land thanks to the latest launch from one of the projects I work on. Although you probably won't notice any difference...
Published on 17 July 2006 in Interactive TV, Freeview, interactive television
You should always know what your competitors are up to. Which is why I spent some time the other morning flicking around between Sky Text and Teletext on my Freeview box at work.
Published on 24 November 2005 in BBC red button, Interactive TV, BBC, BBC red button, interactive television
It feels like just as I'm winding down slightly at work in preperation for having next week off (hurray!), the launches and the changes have been ramping up! Yesterday it was removing TV and Radio listings, today it was improving them as we relaunched our What's On Service on DTT (or Freeview if you must).
Published on 24 November 2005 in BBC red button, Interactive TV, BBC, BBC red button, Digital TV, interactive television, television
On Wednesday we killed off the TV and radio listings on the satellite version of BBCi.
Published on 13 November 2005 in BBC red button, Interactive TV, BBC, BBC red button, interactive television
I totally missed this cos no one actually told me, but finally it's complete. Yes, the new BBCi bridge launched on NTL's Bromley network on Tuesday 8 November - a whole six months after it went out on Telewest.
Published on 27 July 2005 in Interactive TV, BBC red button, Digital Switch Over, Digital TV, interactive television
There's now an indepth report on the analogue TV switch off trial that recently occurred in Ferryside, Wales. It's quite a long document but it was the small section on digital text services that caught by eye - especially the user reactions to them in a world where they'd be unable to get Ceefax.
Published on 16 June 2005 in BBC red button, Interactive TV, BBC, BBC red button, interactive television
NTL's customers in the Langley region got our new look BBCi just over a month ago. Well on BBC One and BBC Two anyway. Until yesterday when they finally got the almost full suite with all the other BBC channels now having access to BBCi when the user presses their red button. Except on BBC Parliament - technical problem or somet.
Published on 6 June 2005 in Interactive TV, interactive television, ITV1, Teletext
Today saw the end of one of the great usability problems of digital text. Yes, you can now press the TEXT button on ITV1 and something actually happens.
Published on 18 May 2005 in BBC red button, Interactive TV, BBC, BBC red button, interactive television
Today I got a sense of closure. Almost. A project we all stopped working on nearly two months ago, finally went up. Well almost. Yes, today half of NTL got the rebranded bridge.
Published on 20 April 2005 in BBC red button, Interactive TV, BBC, BBC red button, interactive television
Is it really a year ago that the BBC's statement of programme policy proclaimed that we'd launch something called QuickCodes on an unsuspecting world?