Athens BBC Interactive?
 

I thought the BBCi Olympics multicast service was going to be available on NTL digital? But there's no red dot on screen and when you press Red it just brings up the option to view the BBCi website - not the proper interactive menu that appeared during Wimbledon, London Marathon etc.
What's going on?

BTW I live in Poole, Dorset.

Re: Athens BBC Interactive?
 

It's available in Leicester

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I just turned the STB off and on and now it's working! :)

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Sort of working here in Fleet, Hants. I've only had one "BAUKM" error on my 4010 but it kills our 4001 box every time :(

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hi and :welcome: to the site , result there i reckon , i hope the gb team do as well :D :D :D

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Thanks for the info. It's still a bit temperamental - I had to reboot the STB again today to get it to work properly (which seems to be the norm for NTL's interactive services - including my broadband internet).

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Im from Ireland I have NTL digital how do I see the Olympics events? Whats a STB?

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press the red button , stb is a set top box :)

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I'd expect it to be temperamental, the rules of Interactive apply, and we all know how stable the interactive feature is :P

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I hit the damned red button on the NTL remote, I hit the green yellow blue ones too, and the "interactive" button NOTHING came up. I've missed maybe 20 fights so far.

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Is it meant to work in all NTL areas? As I have nothing when I press red!

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As above, try rebooting your STB. (Unplug, leave for a minute or so, plug back in)

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Ive tried using it today. Sometimes it works, other times i lose sound, other times it freezes. grrrrrrrrrrrrrr had to reboot my STB so many times today because of the interactive.

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Rebooted and working fine. Is this the start of more red button features? Do we only not get sky news interative & Sky Sports because Sky won't let NTL have it?

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there are no interactive services in ireland via ntl digital. as most areas have no return path.

sorry :(

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Thats my understanding.

When you see it working on Sky and see its stable and much much faster it makes you cringe when you try to use it on NTL.

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Seeing as CableForumUser seems to be new to all this, it's prolly worth explaining that a 'return path' is what allows your Set Top Box to send information back up the cable - a very handy feature and essential for true interactive services.

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Tried this Sunday in the Nottingham area. No red dot on BBC 1 or 2 but on 2 I did get into the interactive services. Lots on UN500 errors initially. Rebooted the STB and now more stable, albeit slow. Can get to all of the Interactive stuff except the schedule option - but that seems to be broke further up the chain, e.g. the BBC.

APS

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So how do i see what olympics events iwant to see? Infact i missed over 40 fights so far!!! NO way to see them?

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BBC.co.uk....apparently have some things........did i hear someone say that skys interactive service is faster and more stable than ntl: ? ...... dream on....have you tried using sky's interactive....you have to wait ages on the thing to load up, and then wait ages for each other thing to load. i like ntl:'s olympics / wimbledon / euro soooo much better. the only thing i like that is on sky is BBc news and Sky news interactive.

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AFAK ntl had some problems with the service - and they are not compleatly fixed yet.

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Thats the under statement of the year

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OOPS - Wrong thread

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Erm, yes! I used to have NTL and the interactive was horrendous - it tended to hang the box...that is when it was available. Sky might take a few seconds to load but using it for the Olympics on BBC is a pleasure.

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A few seconds to load on Sky? :shocked: NTL takes a few minutes for interactive to load and thats if it doesnt hang your box in the process

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I can count to 30 and be from pressing the red button to the multiscreens :shrug:

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:help: UN500 errors, thats a server overload?

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The mail round work today says that message comes on if the box hasn't had the download :shrug:

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Being as the UN500 caused the box to stop responding, thought the TV continued under the big blue error, the restart seems to have fixed it.

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No problems here apart from the obligatory reboots.
Olympics Interactive .... excellent .....

BUT .... why can't the events on the multiscreen be named (as I think they are on SKY) rather than just numbered???

Because the screens are quite small, it's sometimes difficult to see which sports are being covered.

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they were for a while today...but as someone said the current program is the BACK-UP olympics cus bbc had issues with cable interactive...well my 4010 box rules with interactive take about 5 seconds to load the bridge..then BBCI PLEASE wait is there for about 5-10 seconds

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The real question flowing from this is 'WHERE ARE THE ENHANCED SERVICES FOR ALL CHANNELS ' ? ? ?

I went for cable TV because I read that in America there was a wide range of channels - about 300 on most cables - (incl Spice Platinum :) ) and Enhanced services for most channels

>>>> what do we have here after years of cable TV ? ? ? Liimited Channel range - only 1 foreign station - and hardly ANY enhanced services

At least the BBC are trying with their digital Olympic enhanced service !

Ram Jet

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Hahahahaha......

.....you're being ironic.....right?

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I am down here in Nemesis country, Woking in Surrey visiting my brother, he lives in Horsell Park, anywhere near you Nem?

When I left Oldham the Olympic interactive was working perfectly, smooth and fast. He is also with Ntl and the service down here is pants (Langley) the interactive does not work at all, he phoned Ntl to be told they had a "server problem" that was almost cetainly not going to be fixed in the near future. Thank goodness for the Manchester ex C&W infrastructure.
You see it is not so grim "Up North" :p: