No more Teletext on TV

deanos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6UmL9AOcIM

*contains naughty words*

xocbc

Ceefax will be going when analog gets turned off and we will all be stuck with the tediously slow digital text...

ronk_3

My BBC MHEG text is very unreliable since the Winter Hill upgrade. Did you know you can still get the old Ceefax news pages on BBC World on satellite? Most of the European TV broadcasters are still using the old Teletext system, even with digital TV broadcasts. In fact, even with HD. It works on both satellite and "Freeview". See the ARD and ZDF HD channels (free to air) which go full time on 12 Feb. German and Austrian TV are currently celebrating 30 years of teletext, acknowledging that it was a BBC invention. Why do we throw the baby out with the bathwater??

fluffnutter

vyle wrote: »

teletext.co.uk still exists.

I think the point of teletext is that it's on the telly... not on the internet.

I assumed that the reason teletext died (at least commercially) was because there was no demand for it, because people had migrated to the internet as their source of info. Apparently teletext was used by 20m users each week - that's a third of the population (unless it's the same old dear accessing 'Love Stars' 20m times).

That's a huge number of users and it can hardly be argued that the service has become obsolescent. I used to like bamboozle (sad but true). Another service binned just to save money.... :mad:

Inforapennyinforapound

I like the 'rolling videprinter' service on BBC Ceefax for the soccer latest.

I cant seem to find this on my Digital tv.Does anyone know if this service is available on the digital text?