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Getting rid of the red dot?
A friend of mine has a programmable remote control unit which somehow, he
can't remember how, is programmed to send erase the on screen red dot (I assume through some sort of regular key press). I can't find anything like the remote unit he has for sale in high street shops - does anyone know of a unit that performs the anti red dot function? Gareth. |
"Gareth" wrote in message ... A friend of mine has a programmable remote control unit which somehow, he can't remember how, is programmed to send erase the on screen red dot (I assume through some sort of regular key press). I can't find anything like the remote unit he has for sale in high street shops - does anyone know of a unit that performs the anti red dot function? Gareth. I don't really understand what you mean, but surely if you mean the small 'interactive' red blippy thing, you can just press Backup? I might have missed the point. |
"Dom Robinson" wrote in message
... In article , says... "Gareth" wrote in message ... A friend of mine has a programmable remote control unit which somehow, he can't remember how, is programmed to send erase the on screen red dot (I assume through some sort of regular key press). I can't find anything like the remote unit he has for sale in high street shops - does anyone know of a unit that performs the anti red dot function? Gareth. I don't really understand what you mean, but surely if you mean the small 'interactive' red blippy thing, you can just press Backup? I might have missed the point. Because the ******* things come back after EVERY ad break. And the software was changed so you can only do red-then-backup if you're watching a channel when either (a) there's a programme onscreen and not an advert, and (b) the red dot isn't onscreen. An example would be when Will & Grace was on inbetween Big Brother, so doing red-then-backup would not make the dot appear during BB. -- Dom Robinson Gamertag: DVDfever email: dom at dvdfever dot co dot uk /* http://DVDfever.co.uk (editor), http://LeilaniWeb.co.uk (editor), /* 993 DVDs, 294 games, 33 videos, 90 cinema films, 81 CDs, concerts & news /* thief deadly shadows, mull historical society, driv3r revisited, eightball Fight back against "PRESS RED": http://dvdfever.co.uk/pressrel/pressred.shtml How crap is your postal service? Vent your spleen! http://tinyurl.com/2z7wa Here's what I bought to keep the red dot idiocy at bay: http://www.skyeye.force9.co.uk/skyeye.htm I hope the link works, having a few problems with .co.uk DNS resolution on Pipex this evening... Mike |
"Mike Ball" wrote in message ... Here's what I bought to keep the red dot idiocy at bay: http://www.skyeye.force9.co.uk/skyeye.htm I hope the link works, having a few problems with .co.uk DNS resolution on Pipex this evening... Par for the course from my experience with Pipex ;-( Thanks for the link - never knew that these devices existed - wonderful stuff! Gareth. |
Gareth wrote:
Thanks for the link - never knew that these devices existed - wonderful stuff! Though don't try watching interactive Olympics with one attached :( Brian |
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 23:33:08 +0100, someone purporting to be Brian
wrote: Though don't try watching interactive Olympics with one attached :( The SkyEye can be temporarily disabled, by turning off the Second Outlet Power Supply. This will allow full access to the EPG, and allow you to play along with interactive 15-to-1 etc. When you want to re-enable the SkyEye, simply turn the Second Outlet Power Supply back on again via the digibox menu. This is controlled from your remote control so there is no need to leave your seat to do this (provided you are in the same room as the digibox). Source: http://www.skyeye.force9.co.uk/eyecfaq.htm john |
"JohnT" wrote in message
... On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 23:33:08 +0100, someone purporting to be Brian wrote: Though don't try watching interactive Olympics with one attached :( The SkyEye can be temporarily disabled, by turning off the Second Outlet Power Supply. This will allow full access to the EPG, and allow you to play along with interactive 15-to-1 etc. When you want to re-enable the SkyEye, simply turn the Second Outlet Power Supply back on again via the digibox menu. This is controlled from your remote control so there is no need to leave your seat to do this (provided you are in the same room as the digibox). Source: http://www.skyeye.force9.co.uk/eyecfaq.htm john ...and one other thing: These don't work with Sky+, because they knacker any recording or playback unless you turn the Sky-eye power off as per above. For this reason, I don't use mine since I upgraded to Sky+ last October. sigh However, with Sky+ it's even easier to get around - you just pause for a couple of seconds and then continue. The red dot doesn't re-appear (at least for the time being, until they get wise and update the code).... Mike |
I find it rather offensive that such a gizmo is necessary. If one were
to purchase a satellite receiver rather than get one from Mr Murdoch are there any with code that allows the interactive to be switched off? Ed ------ Jomtien wrote in message . .. Jomtien wrote: Nearly all shops will have some sort of programmable remote of the FTA type. Doh! OFA (One For All), not FTA. -- Digibox problem? : A reboot solves 90% of these. The Sky Digital FAQ: http://tinyurl.com/yvnsy How to get UK TV overseas: http://tinyurl.com/6p73 Fed up with logos / red buttons? : http://logofreetv.org/ BBC gone? : http://www.astra2d.co.uk/ ---- Only the truth as I see it. No monies return'd. ;-) |
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"Nigel Barker" wrote in message ... On 20 Aug 2004 06:57:53 -0700, (Ed) wrote: The interactive feature simply don't appear on a non-digibox digital satellite receiver. Which is good news if you don't want a red dot burned onto your plasma screen but not such good news if you actually want to access interactive features. -- Nigel Barker Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur Or watch ITV/C4/C5 |
"Mike Ball" wrote in message ... ..and one other thing: These don't work with Sky+, because they knacker any recording or playback unless you turn the Sky-eye power off as per above. For this reason, I don't use mine since I upgraded to Sky+ last October. sigh I didn't realise this and I am thinking of getting Sky +. This is a real pain actually - it's obviously by design that Sky offers no way to remove the red dot but isn't it offensive to have the thing inflicted on you when you're already paying a lot of money every month? Gareth. |
"Gareth" wrote in message ... "Mike Ball" wrote in message ... ..and one other thing: These don't work with Sky+, because they knacker any recording or playback unless you turn the Sky-eye power off as per above. For this reason, I don't use mine since I upgraded to Sky+ last October. sigh I didn't realise this and I am thinking of getting Sky +. This is a real pain actually - it's obviously by design that Sky offers no way to remove the red dot but isn't it offensive to have the thing inflicted on you when you're already paying a lot of money every month? Gareth. It's probably not as bad as being told what channel you are watching by a big graphic in a top corner, so convienent to block peoples faces, even the yanks have the decency to put their DOGs in the bottom corners. Even worse is the self promotion of future programming plastered on the screen during the program you actually want to watch, compared to those two the red dot and variations thereof is quite a minor annoyance:) With SKY+ and other HD recorders actually watching programming "live" becomes a thing of the past, there really isn't any need to put up with ad breaks and being a slave to the TV schedulers. Once you timeshift everything using SKY+ the red dot isn't an issue since it isn't recorded by the box due to the interactive features it links to not being there when you finally come to watch the program. Mike C |
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says... It's probably not as bad as being told what channel you are watching by a big graphic in a top corner, so convienent to block peoples faces, even the yanks have the decency to put their DOGs in the bottom corners. Even worse is the self promotion of future programming plastered on the screen during the program you actually want to watch, compared to those two the red dot and variations thereof is quite a minor annoyance:) Fair point. Even if I thought properly about getting a red-dot remover (you can only now red-then-backup to remove the red dot if doing it, for example, on a channel that uses it in the background before they have a programme that does it permanently - eg. during Will & Grace before Big Brother on C4), nothing in the world would stop a channel like Sky One from scrunching the screen up and chattering away over the top of a programme's end credits the split second they begin. Well, on the plus side at least they didn't dare talk over the end credits after the time reached 7am during season 3 of '24', given the incredible ending (which I won't reveal here in case anyone's watching the repeats that started recently) -- Dom Robinson Gamertag: DVDfever email: dom at dvdfever dot co dot uk /* http://DVDfever.co.uk (editor), http://LeilaniWeb.co.uk (editor), /* 995 DVDs, 295 games, 33 videos, 90 cinema films, 82 CDs, concerts & news /* doom 3, sparks lil beethoven, bourne identity se, thief deadly shadows Fight back against "PRESS RED": http://dvdfever.co.uk/pressrel/pressred.shtml How crap is your postal service? Vent your spleen! http://tinyurl.com/2z7wa |
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On 20 Aug 2004 06:57:53 -0700, (Ed) wrote: I find it rather offensive that such a gizmo is necessary. If one were to purchase a satellite receiver rather than get one from Mr Murdoch are there any with code that allows the interactive to be switched off? The interactive feature simply don't appear on a non-digibox digital satellite receiver. Which is good news if you don't want a red dot burned onto your plasma screen but not such good news if you actually want to access interactive features. When the phones were off in Manchester at the end of March due to an underground fire, courtesy of BT, I read one page of news on BBC1 Ceefax and looked on BBC1's "BBCi" service to see if there was any more news about it. There wasn't, but what I did get was the same page of text spread over THREE BBCi pages, since the rest was full of adverts and menu crap, like when you're looking at the ITV schedules on Teletext and half the ****ing screen's taken up with 'home loan' ads. Absolute ********. Oh, and it was ****-slow as well on a silver Panasonic box. -- Dom Robinson Gamertag: DVDfever email: dom at dvdfever dot co dot uk /* http://DVDfever.co.uk (editor), http://LeilaniWeb.co.uk (editor), /* 995 DVDs, 295 games, 33 videos, 90 cinema films, 82 CDs, concerts & news /* doom 3, sparks lil beethoven, bourne identity se, thief deadly shadows Fight back against "PRESS RED": http://dvdfever.co.uk/pressrel/pressred.shtml How crap is your postal service? Vent your spleen! http://tinyurl.com/2z7wa |
Ed wrote:
I find it rather offensive that such a gizmo is necessary. If one were to purchase a satellite receiver rather than get one from Mr Murdoch are there any with code that allows the interactive to be switched off? All Sky digiboxes inflict the red dot on you when this is broadcast and the only way to get rid of it is to press back-up (or go into playback mode on a Sky+) or use a Sky-Eye type device which effectively just presses back-up for you. Non-Sky digiboxes never display the red dot but they can't receive encrypted Sky channels (pay or FTV) either. -- Digibox problem? : A reboot solves 90% of these. The Sky Digital FAQ: http://tinyurl.com/yvnsy How to get UK TV overseas: http://tinyurl.com/6p73 Fed up with logos / red buttons? : http://logofreetv.org/ BBC gone? : http://www.astra2d.co.uk/ ---- Only the truth as I see it. No monies return'd. ;-) |
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