Sky Channels (and others)

These are getting more annoying in several ways.

• The insistence of using spilt screens over the credit of programmes, advertising what is on next or later, or even worse, in the next episode of the programme you've been watching. This ruins any dramatic tension built up, and in some cases, ruins the credits themselves, where the programme might not actually have ended, or there may be extra jokes, meaningful title music, etc. Sometimes the dramatic pause and release in terms of the ending is needed. The last episode of "Lost" was a case in point - immediately after the series ending cliff-hanger, they showed clips from the next series which answered several of the questions posed a few seconds before. Not good.
  
• The use of an obtrusive banner across the screen during the show itself advertising what is one next. The BBC's coverage of the last weekend of the VI Nations was a case in point, reducing the size of the picture to a quarter of the screen so they could show a fancy graphic of what was coming up next.
  
• European television is not shown in widescreen, so when watching sport from France or elsewhere in Europe, you get the letterbox format with the edges cut off as well. I know the settings can be changed, but it is a pain to change them back again when you switch channels.
  
• Voice overs during theme music and credits (similar to the rant above).
  
• The size of the cannel ID logo, especially during the cricket.
  
• "Press Red" buttons which appear in so many programmes now. You can get
  rid of it, but it reappears after every advert break.
  
• The number of advert breaks on any US channel. Do American audiences have particularly weak bladders?