Red Buttons Can Suck My Cheddar
Whilst poking about in the BBC archives I found this little gem on interactive “red button” broadcasting. I can say that these things offer ittle or no value to me - if I want to ‘interact’, I can go outside or on the Internet. What the “red button” world has become is TV + Commerce which just sucks. I see enough adverts on television without pressing a little button to let me see more of them. Real interactivity would be to allow real people to get involved in programmes.
Until then ‘red buttons’ and other screen garbage is still an annoyance and a pesterence that stops me from seeing the TV programme. Unfortunately, the programme itself is rarely worth watching either.
