Think of all the children that die on a daily basis every day from malnutrition. I think if you were given $800 million you would be able to save many many lives in less fortunate country's. I encourage you to comment before you read my explanation.

I think that there is a outcome where the most ethical option is to PUSH the red button. If you don't push it, nothing happens and you go back to your normal life.' DirecTV is the only TV provider in the US to provide red button services other providers do offer interactive services, but do not use a red button (such as rival Dish Network and IPTV provider Verizon Fios, and still others do not offer much in the way of interactivity.(Pretty sure I partially stole this from a movie or something but Iam building on it) So you are in a dimly lit room and a man says to you, 'if you push this red button one random innocent person in the world will die and you will watch him die on this screen, and we give you a check for $800 million. However, for older boxes from about 2006-2014, the red button was mainly used for guide functions in conjunction with three other colored buttons, much like Sky Digital the newest remote that DirecTV has started to offer alongside their new 'Genie' whole-home DVR only has the red button, while the other buttons' functions were relegated to other keys. The United States' DirecTV satellite service utilizes the Red Button in certain interactive capacities, such as for instance, bringing up the 'ScoreGuide', a list of sports matches and scores being played at that instant, on a sports network like ESPN. Hong Kong's TVB uses the Red Button to access TVBar, an interactive service on TVB Finance & Information Channel and TVB J2.

For example, when the 2006 FIFA World Cup was aired, viewers could choose to view matches from multiple camera angles, or hear an alternate commentary. The feature also enables several different feeds from an event, thereby enabling viewers to select between events or sporting matches that may be taking place simultaneously. Pop Idol used the red button as a voting device. Sky UK previously used a video of a dog and a duck playing together and saying 'press the red button' to promote the red button to its viewers.

Push the red button