Both I and the guy who posted the solution I used found that even Panasonic UK's "technical department" had no idea that the option existed on their own TVs. Although like most stores JL use ultra high quality USB sticks for their in store demos, a morally dubious practice, most sets have an aerial feed as well so you can just ask the sales person to demo it on Freeview for you to enable you to check it out.Īsking sales people about BBC text is almost certainly a waste of time. It is just recent models that suffer from this problem, the o/p will have go into a shop where the TVs have aerial feeds to actually see if it works or not. Part of the problem is that the manufacturers no longer implement text consistently (or at all) on their devices.
You can't blame them if nobody knows it exists or how to get it even if their device is still capable.
Like the OP's Dad I use the text service a lot but can see the danger of the BBC planning to close it again. On my TV, if you have an Internet connection pressing the remote Red button now opens a context related subset of iPlayer which varies with the channel and what is currently on air. All of this works without an Internet connection.Īs just mentioned above, the BBC have abandoned their alternative Red Button + service which used the Internet. If your device is like my Panasonic TV you may have to sit on each channel for a bit before the remote Text button works. That is for both SD and HD including News, Parliament and even the kids channels (although the kids seem to get a limited main menu with only the News option). This thread is in danger of adding to the confusion about the BBC text service.įor the record, the text service is still being broadcast over the air on both Freeview and Freesat with ALL BBC channels. It uses very old technology apparently but it is by far the quickest way of catching up on the news so sad it is going (gone on my Sony A9). All my PVRs have it as do my older TVs but no idea if the latest PVRs or add on boxes such as the Manhattan do, also no idea how long it will be there anyway. If you press the Red button on say ITV you get a message saying service unavailable which makes sense but no message on BBC channels so the TV seems to know it is there but hasn't the software to decode it. The BBC then withdrew the iPlayer text version as well and the Red Button now takes you to the iPlayer BBC News Channel so not much use. The BBC said it was stopping the text Red Button Service and replacing it with a BBC News iPlayer text version, several manufacturers took them at their word and didn't incorporate it on their new models.
You will need to check it out on the TV you intend to purchase as many TVs no longer have it including Sonys (there is a bit about it on their website).
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