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	Topics BBCi Topic Home BBCi is the brand name for the BBC's digital interactive televisionInteractive television Interactive television describes any number of efforts to allow viewers to interact with television content as they view.... services. BBCi replaces CeefaxCeefax Ceefax is the BBC's teletext information service.... on digital TVs, providing content beyond what is available on analogue television. BBCi is broadcast on all digital television platforms in the UK, including digital cableDigital cable Digital cable is a type of cable television distribution using digital video compression.... , IPTVIPTV IPTV describes a system where a digital television service is delivered using the Internet Protocol over a network infrastru... , digital satelliteSatellite television Summary Satellite television is television delivered by way of communications satellites, as compared to conventional terrestrial te... (Sky DigitalSky Digital (UK & Ireland) Sky Digital is the brand name for British Sky Broadcasting's digital satellite television service, transmitted from SES Astr... & FreesatFreesat Freesat is a BBC-owned trademark for free to air digital satellite television services targeting the UK.... ) and digital terrestrial televisionDigital terrestrial television Digital Terrestrial Television is an implementation of digital technology to provide a greater number of channels and/or bet... (Freeview). The service is slightly different on different platforms due to middlewareMiddleware Middleware is computer software that connects software components or applications.... and bandwidthBandwidth (computing) In computer networking and computer science, digital bandwidth or just bandwidth often refers to a bit rate measured i... constraints. Generally, BBCi offers text and video based services as well as enhanced television programmes which offer extra information, video or quizzes. The service was launched in 1999 as BBC Text. The BBCi brand was introduced in November 2001 and originally also encompassed the corporation's online services, which were renamed to bbc.co.ukBbc.co.uk The URL bbc.co.uk is the brand name in the United Kingdom for the online services of the British Broadcasting Corporation.... from 6 May 2004. BBCi has been criticised for being too slow, especially compared to Ceefax. This usually has to do with the speed of the user's set top box and the programming required to correctly render content. A second criticism charges that the service is hard to navigate. In response, page numbers were introduced in 2004 and matched with those used on Ceefax in 2006. Exclusive BBCi pages are given a 4 digit number. In September 2005, BBCi launched an update to the interactivity available from the BBC's RadioBBC Radio BBC Radio is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a... channels on Freeview. Originally only Radiotext was available. After the update, users could access information about the programme, schedules, news, sport and weather. From 2005, Freeview viewers could access the CBBC Extra video stream. The same team behind the BBC's digital text service also launched the early incarnations of the BBC's Interactive Wimbledon and Interactive Open Golf services in 2000, which were awarded an Interactive Bafta that year. BBCi currently is still compatible with the ONdigital and ITV DigitalITV Digital ITV Digital was a British terrestrial digital television broadcaster.... boxes but has very slow loading speeds compared to newer Freeview boxes. The BBC hasn't commented on when BBCi will stop supporting the old boxes. TeletextTeletext Ltd. Teletext Ltd is the provider of Teletext & Digital Interactive services for ITV, Channel 4 and Five in the United Kingdom.... had stopped supporting the old boxes in 2005. Test Card W A hidden "feature" of BBCi is the ability for Freeview viewers to display Test Card WTest Card W Test Card W is a test card, an image used to determine the quality of a broadcast television picture.... on their screens. This is done by tuning into Channel 105 and pressing the Yellow button within 30 seconds. Viewers should then tune to another channel, then back to 105, and should press the Green button within 30 seconds. A "Status"page will appear, and by entering 33582 followed by Red, Green, Yellow and Blue, a silent Test card W should then appear after 30 seconds or more. As testcards are hardly seen on British television nowadays, this is helpful for those who needed a guide to alter their picture settings. See also MHEG 5 Programming Language for Freeview OpenTVOpenTV OpenTV is an interactive television company founded in 1996.... C-based programming Language for digital satellite Liberate Technologies HTML-based programming language for digital cable. bbc.co.ukBbc.co.uk The URL bbc.co.uk is the brand name in the United Kingdom for the online services of the British Broadcasting Corporation.... External links .