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Originally Posted by jtwn
You have all the channel logos on the screen but you dont complain about that?
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Now you mention it ... but the DOGs AREN'T under the control of NTL, the red dot is! If one NTL area is allowed to turn it off, why can't the rest of us?
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Anyway if you can get rid of it i dont see the problem, i mean im forever turning the volume up and down so i dont see what difference it makes with that.
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I watch television through a TiVo, which means the television is delayed by about a second. If the TV has been paused, it's delayed longer. I have absolutely no use for the red button at all. If I want interactive content, I'll go looking for it - I don't want it shoved in my face.
If you're watching delayed you can't use the TV or backup button to cancel the red dot. If you do, you run the risk of the the buttons doing something else (when the red dot isn't there the backup button changes channel and the TV button brings the mini guide up! These double-uses aren't exactly intuitive!)
What really ****es me off is that the red dot is nothing but an advert. Compare it to having banner-ads in the black bars on widescreen programmes (or tower adverts in the black bars on 4:3 programmes on a widescreen TV). There would be LOTS of complaints then!
But because this advert is dressed up as a "feature" people don't see it for what it is - a way of tempting us to pay ridiculous rates for content which we're already paying for.
I really do feel there's reason for complaint.
Foddy