freeview box - the red dot

Sky wont add a option to disable the red dot - but is there any reason
why a freeview box cant add the option ? .

As a freeview box is only £30 i'd happily spend the £30 to replace my
current freeview box for one that had a option to disable the red dot .

In the argos catalog about 1-2 years ago there was a bottom of the range
bush that didnt have any interactive options and therefore no red dot .

Not suggesting the interactive should be done away with - but am
seggesting a option to disable the red dot if wanted .

Would any of you lot also be quite willing and happy to spend £30 on a
new freeview box if it had a option to disable the red dot ? .

Krustov wrote in
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Sky wont add a option to disable the red dot - but is there any reason
why a freeview box cant add the option ? .

You can't disable it, but you can get it so that it goes off screen after a
minute (or two). Which is the next best thing I suppose.

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whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly,
and applying the wrong remedy."

In uk.media.tv.misc sxb wrote:
Krustov wrote in
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Sky wont add a option to disable the red dot - but is there any reason
why a freeview box cant add the option ? .

You can't disable it, but you can get it so that it goes off screen after a
minute (or two). Which is the next best thing I suppose.

I'm sure the firmware can be hacked. Hunt around the small ads in
electronics magazines. A google search returns a number of hits.

--
Geoff Lane, Airstrip One

"Krustov" wrote in message
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Sky wont add a option to disable the red dot - but is there any reason
why a freeview box cant add the option ? .

As a freeview box is only £30 i'd happily spend the £30 to replace my
current freeview box for one that had a option to disable the red dot .

In the argos catalog about 1-2 years ago there was a bottom of the range
bush that didnt have any interactive options and therefore no red dot .

Not suggesting the interactive should be done away with - but am
seggesting a option to disable the red dot if wanted .

Would any of you lot also be quite willing and happy to spend £30 on a
new freeview box if it had a option to disable the red dot ? .






Topfield PVR includes the facility as standard to disable RED DOT ****.

It also includes the facility to skip adverts with ease.

It also records two channels at once whilst watching a third channel or
playback.

The only things it does not do is 1, make tea, 2. give blow jobs.

sxb wrote:

Krustov wrote in
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Sky wont add a option to disable the red dot - but is there any reason
why a freeview box cant add the option ? .

You can't disable it, but you can get it so that it goes off screen after a
minute (or two). Which is the next best thing I suppose.

--
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it
whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly,
and applying the wrong remedy."

There are channels, Challenge being one, which return the 'dot' after
so many minutes, mainly because it's plugging their gaming crap.
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Krustov wrote in
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Sky wont add a option to disable the red dot - but is there any reason
why a freeview box cant add the option ? .

You can't disable it, but you can get it so that it goes off screen after
a
minute (or two). Which is the next best thing I suppose.

The old analogue Sky boxes used to have separate scart outputs for TV
and VCR. The VCR output had none of the ****e that was added to the TV
output, even if you plugged it into your TV. The only reason Sky
haven't done something similar with the digital boxes is because the
advertisers wouldn't like it. They have recently started having large
on screen adverts via "press red" during programmes. Sky shills are
claiming this is just a mistake, but it will be a mistake that happens
more and more often.



Well me not paying them £400 a year for the last 7 years is also "just a
mistake".

Krustov wrote:
Sky wont add a option to disable the red dot - but is there any reason
why a freeview box cant add the option ? .



You can often get the red button to disappear by pressing the green one.

"Big Ron" wrote in news:1156520064.731859.208540
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Krustov wrote:
Sky wont add a option to disable the red dot - but is there any
reason
why a freeview box cant add the option ? .



You can often get the red button to disappear by pressing the green
one.

Problem selved then! :-)

I have no problem with red dots.

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whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly,
and applying the wrong remedy."

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Krustov wrote:
Sky wont add a option to disable the red dot - but is there any reason
why a freeview box cant add the option ? .

You can often get the red button to disappear by pressing the green one.

You mean it pops out of the remote and rolls under the sofa?

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Max Demian

uk.media.tv.misc
Heracles Pollux
Fri, 25 Aug 2006 16:32:03 +0100


Topfield PVR includes the facility as standard to disable RED DOT ****.


So it isnt a licencing issue and the companys who make freeview boxes
could add the option if they wanted ? .


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