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Tim Hall wrote in message
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Bloody BBC DTT Text.

Useless.


Well not very good anyway. Poxy 24 hour weather forecast shows the
past 18 hours and the following 6. It didn't used to be like this.

Yes. I'm annoyed at that one too. The 24 hour weather forcast used to
be the best thing on the BBCi pages on DTT - I used to regularly
consult it at night to see what the next day held in store. But now it
seems to show the 24 hours from 6am today until 6am tomorrow
irrespective of what time of day you look at it. Why, at 10 o' clock
at night, should I need to see a "forecast" of what's already
happened, but get no info regarding what tomorrow will be like?

I used to use it at 7am to tell me what clothing I needed when riding my
scooter to and from work. Now at 7am it shows the weather for the 24
hours ending at 6am! Duh!

Actually, I just checked it this morning and while the times claimed
to span from 1800hrs yesterday to 1800hrs today, the weather maps
showed yellow sun symbols over Edinburgh at midnight and 3am and
"clear" over Edinburgh at 9am and 12noon. So maybe the actual weather
maps are correct, but the times associated with them are screwey
("clear" is supposed to be only used during the night and sunshine is
only supposed to be used during the day).

Ric.

In article , Tim Hall
writes

Poxy 24 hour weather forecast shows the
past 18 hours and the following 6. It didn't used to be like this.

By coincidence that really bugged me the other day when I looked at it.
Then I watched a 3 minute weather forecast that wasted 2 minutes telling
me what the weather had been like today. Do I really need Michael
Bleeding Fish to tell me that? I was there, I saw it!

Have these guys forgotten what a "forecast" is?
--
Kennedy
Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's ****ed.
Python Philosophers (replace 'nospam' with 'kennedym' when replying)

In article , Tim Hall
writes

Poxy 24 hour weather forecast shows the
past 18 hours and the following 6. It didn't used to be like this.

By coincidence that really bugged me the other day when I looked at it.
Then I watched a 3 minute weather forecast that wasted 2 minutes telling
me what the weather had been like today. Do I really need Michael
Bleeding Fish to tell me that? I was there, I saw it!

Have these guys forgotten what a "forecast" is?
--
Kennedy
Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's ****ed.
Python Philosophers (replace 'nospam' with 'kennedym' when replying)

In article , rich a
writes

Does anyone bother using the fancy text services on digital telly?
There's naff all content on the terrestrial digital text services,

Seems to be just as much content as my analogue teletext.
--
Kennedy
Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's ****ed.
Python Philosophers (replace 'nospam' with 'kennedym' when replying)

In article , rich a
writes

Does anyone bother using the fancy text services on digital telly?
There's naff all content on the terrestrial digital text services,

Seems to be just as much content as my analogue teletext.
--
Kennedy
Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's ****ed.
Python Philosophers (replace 'nospam' with 'kennedym' when replying)

In message
rich a wrote:

Tim Hall decided it would be mildly
amusing to write:

Bloody BBC DTT Text.

Useless.

Does anyone bother using the fancy text services on digital telly?
There's naff all content on the terrestrial digital text services, and
then the satellite digital 'interactive' services are just so darn slow
and still manage to miss out 95% of the content available on good ol'
ceefax.

It's ********.

However the text services on some BBC3 shows where it shows the music
played in the show/gives background info is pretty neat - although it
could have been done just as easily with teletext.

And another thing. The now and next info for 5 always craps out in
tnhe evening, showing "Five News Update" regardless of what the film's
called.

I'm pretty sure I've seen this too on my Sony DTT box. Maybe they'll
improve it if the Beeb ever implement this 7-day guide we've all been
waiting for.



The main problem that I find is that information can not be updated
'live'

So if you are using it for the Test Match Cricket ball by ball service
you need to keep reloading.

Analogue teletext does this at regular intervals without user
intervention and has an in-screen option.

I also get the feeling that digital pages take longer to reconstruct by
the broadcasters.


--
Richard Watkinson

Treasurer Sheffield Folk Festival

http://www.sheffieldfolkfestival.org/

A kitten is for life...

In message
rich a wrote:

Tim Hall decided it would be mildly
amusing to write:

Bloody BBC DTT Text.

Useless.

Does anyone bother using the fancy text services on digital telly?
There's naff all content on the terrestrial digital text services, and
then the satellite digital 'interactive' services are just so darn slow
and still manage to miss out 95% of the content available on good ol'
ceefax.

It's ********.

However the text services on some BBC3 shows where it shows the music
played in the show/gives background info is pretty neat - although it
could have been done just as easily with teletext.

And another thing. The now and next info for 5 always craps out in
tnhe evening, showing "Five News Update" regardless of what the film's
called.

I'm pretty sure I've seen this too on my Sony DTT box. Maybe they'll
improve it if the Beeb ever implement this 7-day guide we've all been
waiting for.



The main problem that I find is that information can not be updated
'live'

So if you are using it for the Test Match Cricket ball by ball service
you need to keep reloading.

Analogue teletext does this at regular intervals without user
intervention and has an in-screen option.

I also get the feeling that digital pages take longer to reconstruct by
the broadcasters.


--
Richard Watkinson

Treasurer Sheffield Folk Festival

http://www.sheffieldfolkfestival.org/

A kitten is for life...