HI,
My name's Pooch, and I am a Moderator in the DVD Talk part of the AVForums.
Anyway, I hate the red dot thing, just as many of you all do. If you ever want to do unattended recordings, on channels liek Sky 1, that use Red Dot icons, you can reprogramme your Sky STB so that some channels appear in your "Other Channels" list.
All you need to do, is get the frequency details, which can normally be obtained from somewhere like:
Link Here
Programme them in, save them, and then if you now need to watch or tape something, and don't want to have to worry about the whole Red Dot thing, then just select the channel from the "Other Channels" list, rather than the normal EPG.
This is what I do, especially for Channel 4, Sky 1, and E4.
Hope that helps!
Pooch