{"id":2068,"date":"2007-09-11T22:38:25","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T22:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2007\/09\/dynamic_interac\/"},"modified":"2007-09-11T22:38:25","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T22:38:25","slug":"dynamic_interac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/dynamic_interac\/","title":{"rendered":"Dynamic Interactive Content from the Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I note that Virgin Media customers will be able to get &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/pressoffice\/pressreleases\/stories\/2007\/09_september\/11\/\/virgin.shtml\">dynamic interactive content<\/a>&#8221; from BBC Radio services later this month. Basically this gives you lots of &#8220;now playing&#8221; type information when you&#8217;re watching a BBC Radio channel.<br \/>\nAs the press release explains, this has been available on Freeview for sometime. And the release also coyly mentions that &#8220;BBCi now visualises radio listening on most major digital TV platforms.&#8221;<br \/>\nIn other words: you can get it on Freeview, and you can get it on cable. But you can&#8217;t get it on Sky.<br \/>\nIf there&#8217;s one glaring in hole in Sky&#8217;s otherwise very good system, it&#8217;s the lack of flexibility in their radio section, without even basic Now &#038; Next functionality. You can&#8217;t see anything beyond a description of the current programme on the EPG &#8211; certainly not a list of programmes over the coming days. And you can&#8217;t set your Sky+ to record a radio programme without prior knowledge of programme times, and an understanding of how to manually record things.<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s hope that releases like this get Sky to pull their finger out and do something. It really can&#8217;t be that hard!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I note that Virgin Media customers will be able to get &#8220;dynamic interactive content&#8221; from BBC Radio services later this month. Basically this gives you lots of &#8220;now playing&#8221; type information when you&#8217;re watching a BBC Radio channel. As the press release explains, this has been available on Freeview for sometime. And the release also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}