If you are interested the TV is a TX-49FX750B. The paper manual is really just a quick start guide although I will say it is more detailed than the usual QSG offerings. The BBC would soon point out to enquirers that the fault lies with Panasonic not them - and, as a notorious ex-poster constantly reminded us, Panasonic have previously shown reluctance to admit to endemic faults in their TVs.Īs usual these days, the manual provides endless "eHelp" pages but has little useful to say on how most things should operate including teletext. I doubt whether they will "publish an addendum to the instruction book". If I were stuck like this with a Freeview only set it would be more serious, as it is I just find it an inconvenience. That behaves exactly as described by the BBC.Īs I said in my other thread, the old broadcast version is vastly superior if you want text rather than gimmicks.
It is not working "as designed" according to the BBC description of Red Button Plus nor to the operation of the Freesat tuner on the same TV. If nobody notices that supports my theory that Panasonic (or any of the others) are not going to spend time and money fixing firmware which is also strictly UK only.Īs I mentioned previously, they aren't likely to rewrite the sets software when it's already working as designed (it's a feature not a fault) unless the instruction book actually says you can access the old red button service from the text button?.Įven if the book actually says that, I suspect their 'cure' would be to publish an addendum to the instruction book If nobody notices that supports my theory that Panasonic (or any of the others) are not going to spend time and money fixing firmware which is also strictly UK only. If they have the Internet Red Button Plus working they simply assume it replaces the old broadcast text service. He thought that most of his customers have no idea, that's if they even use the Red Button.
I have lost track of all the versions of the UK terrestrial EPG and whether they appear on TVs, STBs, or both.
I suspect it may be related to whether the sets have Freeview, Freeview Plus, YouView, YouView+, etc. Some are like mine, others are fine and it is the same across all their brands and price range. He said that the problem with broadcast text seems to affect the receivers almost at random. I spoke to one of the guys in John Lewis about this the other day and he knew immediately what I was talking about, which is better than Panasonic support. Hope my Panasonic (see other Red Button thread) is not a bottom end one at that price so I assume it was not bought in from Vestel. Some Panasonics (bottom end ones) are bought in from Vestel, just as with Toshiba - so possibly the same sets, same problems. Some Panasonics have the same problem apparently.
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