BBC News Interactive

Charles Slane

BBC News Interactive launched today.

It's similar to Sky News Active.

It's available all the time on BBC News 24, but is apparently also available during news programmes on BBC1 and 2.

Have any ROI viewers seen it yet ?

Leesider

Yes, I had a brief look at it.
Is is available at all times on the BBC channels. Just press 'text', and select the new feature from the menu. You have a choice of buttons 1 to 4, which show video footage continuously.
1 is news, 2 is sports, 3 is weather and 4 is 'live plus', a sort of video footage of the house of commons etc.
It's a smart, seamless service., better than Sky IMO.

Hi Charles-Have the BBC active on news 24-its coooool!:cool:
Unlike Sky you only have one section at a time-ie no windows!
Its got a choice of 1 news headlines
2 sports round up
3 weather update
4 Live extra-currently showing a live Jack Straw press conference

Am pretty sure Brendan Kehoe has a bbc card and the gear to put up a few screen shots-will send him an e-mail -unless some one gets them up first!

It's a nice RED blue and yellow backdrop.
mm

bkehoe

I won't have my card till tomorrow...I hope; was expecting it today.

Brendan

Charles Slane

Yeah it's pretty cool alright.

And it means we're (kind of) getting BBC News 24 by default.

And it's great the way it's integrated with the text service.

Thumbs up.

Mossy Monk

that text service the BBC has given is something else. video screens, change channel while reading it. great stuff. all we need now is a lot of the CEEFAX stuff in there and it will be better than any other text based service on Sky

bkehoe

Here are a few screenshots (click on the image filenames to get them): http://209.15.121.207/bbcn/

Brendan

byte

Looks great. Nice that we're allowed to view it, being from ROI. One wonders why ROI can't view News 24 as it's only a news channel. There's hardly many copyright issues involved

Mossy Monk

one suspects it is Sky who are not leaving us see News 24 as they want as little competition as possible for their tabloid news channel

chernobyl

Thats exactly why Fox News will remain in "add channel" but it will stay there as long as Eutelsat want it here, and not Sky.


Fox is on Eurobird and this serves most of western europe and is not there for Sky.

So Fox most likely wont be on the EPG but Sky cant block it unless they make the freqency invisible, but thats a complete TP gone.

DMC

Originally posted by Mossy Monk
one suspects it is Sky who are not leaving us see News 24 as they want as little competition as possible for their tabloid news channel

Especially since Sky News has Irish advertising on the version we see....