What is IPTV?
Paul Ashun writes: The year is 2008 and IPTV projects are beginning to make their mark on the industry and imminently, our audiences. The exciting world of TV via Internet Protocols (and all that goes...
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All change in Sports
Ruhel Ali writes: Many sports fans may have noticed a change to our digital text service on Sky, Virgin and Freeview. These changes were made to enable a more comprehensive sports area which enabled...
View ArticleSupport report: video aspect ratio issue on satellite Sport service
Like any IT service, we have a continuous flow of support issues for the live service (or incidents, if you're an ITIList). Occasionally an issue is high profile enough to garner some outside...
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32 burndowns
Hello! The image above shows the burndown charts we use to track project progress - the period covered is from sometime in 2003 to mid 2007. Burndown charts are one of the artefacts used in agile...
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Why Freesat Works
Simon Lumb writes: Let's say you've just made a change to some software you're developing that you expect an audience of thousands to use daily to check news headlines, sports results, the weather or...
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Freesat Radio
Some point in the 1990s the BBC ran a series of on air promotions, telling viewers what this brave new world of digital was all about. A series of TV and radio stars told us that soon all programmes...
View ArticleThe Removal of What's On on Freeview
Farah Fahmy writes: On Thursday the 9th of October, What's On was taken out from the BBC Red Button service. This generated complaints from some viewers, and we have responded both within the Red...
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Welcome to Selkirk, West London
There's a new addition to our office in West London. Sat in front of a green glass screen, where everything is surprisingly dark and difficult to photograph, is another part of the country. Selkirk in...
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Innovation and One in Ten
Ruhel Ali writes: The BBC has always been at the forefront of innovation. From producing the first television transmissions; the creation of Ceefax; to taking the UK digital, the BBC has enabled new...
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Please Wait...
If you use our service on a Sky box you may notice that every now and then you come across a large "Please Wait" screen. We put one of these up every time a user selects some content that can't be...
View ArticleWill viewers choose their own running order?
Tristram Biggs writes... Historically FM&T Journalism has focused primarily on web development. The reasons for this are many and none of them are any of my business but it is odd, because the...
View ArticleRemoving Press Red Icons
James Parkin writes... Although we in the Red Button team love it when our viewers press red, if you don't wish to have the "Press Red" icon (also known as the trigger) on screen at all times then you...
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One Big Day
Susan Richards writes... As we've written about before, the BBC Red Button team has a scheme called One in Ten where members of the department can work on innovative ideas which they are interested in...
View ArticleFreesat Sport Audio Issue
Simon Lumb writes... We launched new functionality for the Freesat Sport Multiscreen service last week. The new service is designed so that the BBC Sport team can make available extra audio streams to...
View ArticleA new home for this blog
The removal vans have been packed up and we're moving to a new home. The combination of a rebrand of the blog, and a blog software update, means that we've moved to a new home called Press Red, where...
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