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BBCi

Trevord · 2006-09-19 17:48:06

I guess this is a newbie question but here it goes anyway. On my Lidl sat receiver some channels appear in a split screen with 6 video feeds and with one audio feed (from one of the 6 pictures showing). They are BBC so my newbie guess is that this is BBCi output. My question is whether this only works properly with a sky…

19-09-2006 5:48pm

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I guess this is a newbie question but here it goes anyway.

On my Lidl sat receiver some channels appear in a split screen with 6 video feeds and with one audio feed (from one of the 6 pictures showing).

They are BBC so my newbie guess is that this is BBCi output. My question is whether this only works properly with a sky box or are there other receivers capable of making sense of it.

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#2 19-09-2006 7:56pm

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No the likes of BBCi or Sky News Active etc will only work properly on a Sky box.

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#3 20-09-2006 8:07am

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Though when Wimblton. World cup, Olimpices or whatever the video that the BBCi gives you can usually be found and watched full screen as "stream..." something.

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#4 20-09-2006 8:19pm

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Thats if they are full screen, most of the BBC Sport interactive is full screen. But the small 6 screen BBCi News are as byte said, they only work right through a Sky box.

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#5 21-09-2006 6:25pm

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Thanks.

I'll look out for some of those streams in due course.

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