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Message added by dezza on 2008-07-17 14:13:04.

A rant about adverts

One thing that has been really annoying me over the last year or so, is adverts that, as their sound track, have just a track of music. I, and I'm sure many others, do not watch adverts when they're on - I do something else, be it check emails or any other task. As such I only *listen* to them. How do I know what you're advertising if you don't even say what it is, and rely on someone to be actually watching the screen to see your product / company name appear?

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Written by dezza on 2009-05-22 09:14:08. Read more...

Freeview EPG Reminder Setting

A couple of months ago, my freeview box received an update to a new teletext sponsored Electronic Programme Guide (EPG) making it supposedly better. However, now to add a reminder for a programme, I have to press yellow to go to the TV guide options, wait for that page to load, then press 5 to set a reminder, and select which type of reminder. How is it better if I have to go through more steps and time to do the same thing? Surely a better solution would be to simply 'press 5 to add a reminder', rather than going through a separate menu? As far as I can tell, the 5 button doesn't do anything on the main EPG screen anyways! /rant.

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Written by dezza on 2009-04-11 14:11:48. Read more...