Dont suppose anyone knows if the series link will auto change to chan 5, or 
just wait and see lol?




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Hi,

My old man has just bought a Samsung LE37R8 TV - a 37 inch LCD set which 
includes analogue and Freeview tuners.

We've found one slight problem with the Freeview set-up - we can't access 
the Interactive services (i.e. the "Teletext" pages of DTV) which you 
normally enter by pressing the Red button on BBC1, BBC2, BBC News 24 etc. 
etc. I've tried the Text button as well as the Red one - but neither works.

Does anyone know how to access these? (Their is an option to enable/disable 
these in the DTV settings menu - so I assume that the set is capable of 
displaying these).

PS - Channel 105 is called BBCi, but going there asks you to press the Red 
button - which results in a plain BBC1 picture without the text, so that 
doesn't work either.

Bob,

Bob Huntley  wrote:

> My old man has just bought a Samsung LE37R8 TV - a 37 inch LCD set which
> includes analogue and Freeview tuners.
> 
> We've found one slight problem with the Freeview set-up - we can't access
> the Interactive services (i.e. the "Teletext" pages of DTV) which you
> normally enter by pressing the Red button on BBC1, BBC2, BBC News 24 etc.
> etc. I've tried the Text button as well as the Red one - but neither works.
> 
> Does anyone know how to access these? (Their is an option to enable/disable
> these in the DTV settings menu - so I assume that the set is capable of
> displaying these).
> 
> PS - Channel 105 is called BBCi, but going there asks you to press the Red
> button - which results in a plain BBC1 picture without the text, so that
> doesn't work either.

Is your 'old man' perhaps a bit mutt & jeff and uses subtitles? Red
blobbery doesn't work on DVB-T for some reason when subtitles are
enabled. A decent decoder will switch them off, or invite you to do so,
when you press 'text' or 'red'. Others just do nothing.

If you have subtitles enabled when visiting p105, you get exactly the
action you have described.

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Alan,

Thanks for the reply.

Yes, your exactly right about his deafness - the first thing we did on 
buying the set was to turn the sub-titles on for him, and just left them on 
all the time. I tried it tonight (see below) and it works fine with the 
subtitles turned off.

BTW - Samsung replied to my question today. One additional cause of 
confusion, on the Samsung its the "Text/Mix" button instead of the Red 
button.

Bob,



"Alan Pemberton" <Spambox@pembers.freeserve.co.uk.invalid> wrote in message 
news:1ibqxlu.30lrtc1e8ab8kN%Spambox@pembers.freeserve.co.uk.invalid...
> Bob Huntley  wrote:
>
>> My old man has just bought a Samsung LE37R8 TV - a 37 inch LCD set which
>> includes analogue and Freeview tuners.
>>
>> We've found one slight problem with the Freeview set-up - we can't access
>> the Interactive services (i.e. the "Teletext" pages of DTV) which you
>> normally enter by pressing the Red button on BBC1, BBC2, BBC News 24 etc.
>> etc. I've tried the Text button as well as the Red one - but neither 
>> works.
>>
>> Does anyone know how to access these? (Their is an option to 
>> enable/disable
>> these in the DTV settings menu - so I assume that the set is capable of
>> displaying these).
>>
>> PS - Channel 105 is called BBCi, but going there asks you to press the 
>> Red
>> button - which results in a plain BBC1 picture without the text, so that
>> doesn't work either.
>
> Is your 'old man' perhaps a bit mutt & jeff and uses subtitles? Red
> blobbery doesn't work on DVB-T for some reason when subtitles are
> enabled. A decent decoder will switch them off, or invite you to do so,
> when you press 'text' or 'red'. Others just do nothing.
>
> If you have subtitles enabled when visiting p105, you get exactly the
> action you have described.
>
> -- 
> Alan Pemberton
> Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England
> To e-mail me directly, please visit
> <http://www.pembers.freeserve.co.uk/index.html#Mail-me>
>

Bob Huntley  wrote:

> BTW - Samsung replied to my question today. One additional cause of 
> confusion, on the Samsung its the "Text/Mix" button instead of the Red
> button.

The two are interchangeable on most boxes. Or maybe it's the
broadcasters who map both keys to the same function. Either way, you can
usually use Text or Red to call up both BBCi and the so-called
interactive programmes.

And you can usually dispatch the red blob with the green button,
although it won't appear in the first place with subtitles on.

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Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England
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