What is with the BBC and their annoying habit of plastering messages on the screen to use the i-Player. Their technology is not intelligent - it will display the GREEN button window every time you switch to the channel regardless if the program has only just started like in the above photo or half way through.
It even shows before the program has started.
so what is that for - to watch the program that has finished or to start watching the program that hasn't started yet.
I have asked the BBC how can I switch off the messages as they are not useful to me, just annoying. Some people I am sure love them and use them. Great, but I want the option to turn them off.
BBC's answer is to use the YELLOW button to switch off the message. And it does, but you have to press the yellow button EVERY SINGLE TIME.
For a lot of BBC programs I purposely miss the start of a program because they wish to spend the first couple of minutes spoiling it by showing what will be in the program. Agh! Something like Bargain Hunt which now gets close to 4 minutes of opening waffle I am switching back and forth a few times, yellow button each time.
There is another solution, don't be connected to the internet. My BT box just has a tv aerial coming in, so I do use that at times. But I forget to do that and up using just my not-so-smart tv.
Of course the BBC doesn't stop there. They have a RED button as well. This is used to tell you to switch to another, mostly random program, on the i-player.
But they show it way before the program I am actually watching has finished. Seriously, am I really going to press the RED button. No, I have to use the YELLOW button as that huge message stays on the screen for a good 30 seconds. Very off putting when you are watching a comedy, and a joke is ruined by a great big message saying to watch the SNOOKER!
Sort it out BBC - no other channel does it.