http://www.planetbods.org/blog/build/images/me.jpg 2008-07-01T15:53:17Z Enhanced television programmes, and digital data services ago-go. tag:www.planetbods.org,2008:/blog/Interactive TV/2 Movable Type Copyright (c) 2008, Andrew Bowden 2008-07-01T15:53:17Z 2008-07-01T15:44:36Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2008:/blog//2.950

Over on BBCi Labs right now, you'll find my first contribution to that blog.

Andrew Bowden 2008-06-24T21:19:03Z 2008-06-24T21:10:00Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2008:/blog//2.945

BBCi Labs is a new blog from the team I work in and will be a space for the team to write about what we're doing, show off some of the things we've done and various other stuff.

Andrew Bowden 2008-05-29T16:34:50Z 2008-05-29T16:35:27Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2008:/blog//2.943

I seem to be making a bit of a habit of missing the BBCi Freesat launches. After being away for the initial launch due to being on holiday, I missed the launch of the new Freesat Weather service on Tuesday due to being ill with a chest infection.

Andrew Bowden 2008-05-09T07:38:19Z 2008-05-09T07:23:38Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2008:/blog//2.795

So if you're the one person who has been eagerly awaiting a detailed blog post about it all, well you can now have it.

Andrew Bowden 2007-12-04T20:54:31Z 2007-12-04T20:54:01Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2007:/blog//2.738

I don't know what anyone else thought, but when I read that bit of the Freesat FAQ about interactive content on Freesat, I thought that the author was being just a little cagey - that they weren't really telling me much.

Andrew Bowden 2007-11-27T17:16:25Z 2007-11-27T17:10:11Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2007:/blog//2.734

Well the secret is out. Well right now as I type, it's not hugely out because the website hasn't been out for very long. But anyway, the Freesat website is now live, so you can find out all about it, and why you'd want it. Or not want it. Or something.

Andrew Bowden 2007-09-15T14:00:11Z 2007-09-15T13:28:01Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2007:/blog//2.294

CBBC extra goes bright green, and cable-land gets a radio service

Andrew Bowden 2007-07-18T21:38:04Z 2007-07-18T20:58:34Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2007:/blog//2.701

The end of last week saw the launch of yet another raft of BBCi changes that I've been involved with. In fact it was a huge, chunky, bit-of-a-nightmare of a release, with most of the changes being behind the scenes so you'd never even notice, which isn't really the most encouraging thing in the world!

Andrew Bowden 2007-11-04T08:32:44Z 2007-04-20T17:16:34Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2007:/blog//2.682

Tthis week, BBCi won the International Interactive Emmy award for Best Interactive Television Service. Woo!

Andrew Bowden 2007-02-24T08:09:49Z 2007-02-24T07:53:33Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2007:/blog//2.665

It was great to see the new look BBCi News Multiscreen launch on digital terrestrial television at around 11:10 on Thursday morning - now with 100% more video options! (well four choices instead of 2 is a 100% increase!)

Andrew Bowden 2007-02-21T22:17:37Z 2007-02-21T21:51:16Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2007:/blog//2.664

I mentioned the other day that all but four pages within the new BBCi weather service had page numbers and that I was contemplating adding in those extra four. Whether to do so or not turned out to be an interesting decision.

Andrew Bowden 2007-02-17T10:31:58Z 2007-02-17T10:13:26Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2007:/blog//2.663

Urgh, thank goodness it's the weekend. It's been a particularly long week due to the launch of the revised BBCi weather service on digital terrestrial and satellite which, for us, wasn't quite as smooth as I would have liked - hence why I was still at work last night at 8pm. Especially annoying given I'd worked late the previous night and had hoped to go home early on Friday to compensate! Still the changes are done and the service is up there for people to see.

Andrew Bowden 2007-02-10T18:21:30Z 2007-02-10T18:03:47Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2007:/blog//2.661

A while ago, someone emailed me to ask what was going to replace the old quarter screen BBC Parliament service on digital terrestrial television (aka Freeview). At the time I just said that something was coming, and that I couldn't say more.

Andrew Bowden 2007-01-11T22:08:54Z 2007-01-11T22:05:27Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2007:/blog//2.650

I feel a bit like the grim reaper having recently been the person who took the life away from two BBCi sections which closed this week.

Andrew Bowden 2007-11-04T08:35:39Z 2006-12-30T14:52:53Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2006:/blog//2.645

This year we added a bit of brown holly to the front page of BBCi on satellite. Some people may wonder why it's brown. Some might wonder why only on satellite. So here's why.

Andrew Bowden 2007-01-11T22:10:19Z 2006-10-28T13:49:14Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2006:/blog//2.638

Well the news is out - BBC Parliament on DTT/Freeview will be going full screen in November, rather than the horrible quarter screen format that it goes out in now.

Andrew Bowden 2007-01-11T22:10:36Z 2006-09-26T19:45:49Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2006:/blog//2.623

Today was another big day in BBCi land thanks to the latest launch from one of the projects I work on. Although you probably won't notice any difference...

Andrew Bowden 2006-07-17T18:27:22Z 2006-07-17T18:23:32Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2006:/blog//2.345

You should always know what your competitors are up to. Which is why I spent some time the other morning flicking around between Sky Text and Teletext on my Freeview box at work.

Andrew Bowden 2008-09-30T21:17:25Z 2005-11-24T21:53:26Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2005:/blog//2.546

It feels like just as I'm winding down slightly at work in preperation for having next week off (hurray!), the launches and the changes have been ramping up! Yesterday it was removing TV and Radio listings, today it was improving them as we relaunched our What's On Service on DTT (or Freeview if you must).

Andrew Bowden 2008-09-30T13:11:12Z 2005-11-24T21:43:39Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2005:/blog//2.545

On Wednesday we killed off the TV and radio listings on the satellite version of BBCi.

Andrew Bowden