The BBCi Bar Is Now Transparent

[paul_hadley]

The BBCi bar is now transparent in my area (ex-cwc - Essex) on BBC ONE and BBC TWO. It looks great. All we need now is the Freeview and Sky-style screens, instead of the walled garden content.

[paul_hadley]

New features include the programme title being displayed on the BBCi bar, programme-related links on the BBCi bar and an option to press 0 to hide the BBCi bar. The contact us link on the BBCi bar links to a new BBCi bar, like it does on Freeview and Sky. We need BBC THREE, BBC FOUR and BBC NEWS 24 BBCi bars (and the news multiscreens), but it is good to see that they have found a solution to the transparency problem.

Edit: CBBC and CBeebies need to have a BBCi bar, but I think that there is a problem, because they share the channel frequencies with BBC THREE and BBC Four. Hopefully the walled garden content will be changed for BBCi, because Freeview and Sky are getting the new version of BBCi soon. NTL might get the new version of BBCi at the same time.

[bigitup_j]

very good news

i can't wait until all the bbci stuff is launched!