banner obsession (and subtitle position)

[J. P. Gilliver]

Just been watching the inflation, bank of England, etc. reporting over
the interest rate rises.

BBC News channel still have this banner obsession. You'd have hoped that
they'd have learnt, after the CoViD years, that such presentations are
likely to include graphs and other things, that have important detail
(if only the X axis!) at the bottom of the screen. Sure, someone _did_
eventually turn off a banner (though only the broad red one - the thin
white one remained), but still after a noticeable delay. There should be
_instant_ banner kill under such circumstances.

I'd argue that the general amount of banner is too much anyway.

An alternative, especially with today's large screens (though I am
always wary of anything that disadvantages those with older equipment),
would be the innovation adopted by GBNews: shrink the _main_ picture
slightly, so that a (small) banner can remain at the bottom all the time
_without_ obscuring anything. I'm fully aware that the main reason GB do
that is so that they can keep their banner running while the adverts are
on (I'm surprised no-one else is following suit - patent or something?).

But generally, the bottom of the screen area needs attention, at the
very least on the news channel(s). IMO having it as the _default_
position for subtitles - as it was introduced 40+ years ago, when things
were very different - needs changing: they _do_ move them during weather
and headlines, so why not for everything else?

[MB]

Post by J. P. Gilliver
I'd argue that the general amount of banner is too much anyway.

If only there was an equivalent of CEEFAX Page 150!

You could select if you wanted it and if you did then just major news
stories and you could cancel when read.

It was far superior to anything now.

[J. P. Gilliver]

Post by MB

Post by J. P. Gilliver
I'd argue that the general amount of banner is too much anyway.

If only there was an equivalent of CEEFAX Page 150!
You could select if you wanted it and if you did then just major news
stories and you could cancel when read.
It was far superior to anything now.

Playing devil's advocate, I guess they'd say that the news channel is
designed for people to dip into when they _want_ an instant news
summary; it's certainly _not_ designed to be watched continuously for
any length of time, which I'd like to do - well, like to is an
overstatement, but sometimes I'd like to leave it on. But the amount of
repetition - especially presented as if new - drives me nuts. (Hence my
wish that material aged over some time to be determined - 30-60 minutes
maybe? - be timestamped in vision, but they're never going to do that.)
Plus monostoryism of course (Coronation day was a supreme example of
that, even on BBC1).