Is there any way to hide the “Press Red” or “Press i” button on BBC channels, especially the one on BBC News 24 which never disappears?
“Press Red” is another intensely annoying stupidity perpetrated by the management and marketing idiots. Recently “Press Red” has been changed to “Press i”, which is not only annoying but also very confusing since the “i” button displays the channel information and doesn’t invoke the text system. You can complain to the BBC about “Press Red”, provided you can find the right page on their website to do so, which isn’t easy. Depending on your Freeview box, some of the following ideas might help to hide the hated “Press Red”: • Try pressing the Green button. This has recently been discovered to hide “Press Red” with no side effects. However, it might not work on all types of Freeview box. • Switch subtitles on. However, you may feel that subtitles are no less intrusive than “Press Red”. • Switch on subtitles and change the subtitle language option to Welsh or Gaelic, with the intention that then no subtitles should be displayed. However, on my Freeview box English subtitles are displayed e
