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    From J. P. Gilliver@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 11 13:03:07 2023
    Just been watching the inflation, bank of England, etc. reporting over
    the interest rate rises.

    BBC News channel still have this banner obsession. You'd have hoped that
    they'd have learnt, after the CoViD years, that such presentations are
    likely to include graphs and other things, that have important detail
    (if only the X axis!) at the bottom of the screen. Sure, someone _did_ eventually turn off a banner (though only the broad red one - the thin
    white one remained), but still after a noticeable delay. There should be _instant_ banner kill under such circumstances.

    I'd argue that the general amount of banner is too much anyway.

    An alternative, especially with today's large screens (though I am
    always wary of anything that disadvantages those with older equipment),
    would be the innovation adopted by GBNews: shrink the _main_ picture
    slightly, so that a (small) banner can remain at the bottom all the time _without_ obscuring anything. I'm fully aware that the main reason GB do
    that is so that they can keep their banner running while the adverts are
    on (I'm surprised no-one else is following suit - patent or something?).

    But generally, the bottom of the screen area needs attention, at the
    very least on the news channel(s). IMO having it as the _default_
    position for subtitles - as it was introduced 40+ years ago, when things
    were very different - needs changing: they _do_ move them during weather
    and headlines, so why not for everything else?
    --
    J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

    Does God believe in people?

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  • From MB@21:1/5 to J. P. Gilliver on Thu May 11 15:20:18 2023
    On 11/05/2023 13:03, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
    I'd argue that the general amount of banner is too much anyway.


    If only there was an equivalent of CEEFAX Page 150!

    You could select if you wanted it and if you did then just major news
    stories and you could cancel when read.

    It was far superior to anything now.

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  • From J. P. Gilliver@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu May 11 17:35:43 2023
    In message <u3itj1$149cp$[email protected]> at Thu, 11 May 2023 15:20:18,
    MB <[email protected]> writes
    On 11/05/2023 13:03, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
    I'd argue that the general amount of banner is too much anyway.


    If only there was an equivalent of CEEFAX Page 150!

    You could select if you wanted it and if you did then just major news
    stories and you could cancel when read.

    It was far superior to anything now.


    Playing devil's advocate, I guess they'd say that the news channel is
    designed for people to dip into when they _want_ an instant news
    summary; it's certainly _not_ designed to be watched continuously for
    any length of time, which I'd like to do - well, like to is an
    overstatement, but sometimes I'd like to leave it on. But the amount of repetition - especially presented as if new - drives me nuts. (Hence my
    wish that material aged over some time to be determined - 30-60 minutes
    maybe? - be timestamped in vision, but they're never going to do that.)
    Plus monostoryism of course (Coronation day was a supreme example of
    that, even on BBC1).
    --
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