Ceefax on digital Tv

peter999

So how do you watch Ceefax on digital Tv ??

I'm watching Tv late last night on BBC2 when all programs are finished, it starts showing selection of Ceefax pages, as it used to do before switchover !!

I thought Ceefax had finished & stopped broadcasting !!

On one of pages at bottom, there was link to a page 'Ceefax on Digital Tv', page 692 I think.

Any ideas how you watch Ceefax on digital Tv ??

peter999

Heinz

The digital version on BBC channels is via the red button. You can use the menus to find the page you want or the following link takes you to a (rather old) list.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pressred/assets/bbcredbuttonpagenumbers.pdf

Ceefax is alive and kicking on analogue in the TT and NI regions.

custardy

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2012/04/from_ceefax_to_digital_text.html

peter999

Heinz wrote: »

The digital version on BBC channels is via the red button. You can use the menus to find the page you want or the following link takes you to a (rather old) list.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pressred/assets/bbcredbuttonpagenumbers.pdf

Ceefax is alive and kicking on analogue in the TT and NI regions.

So the old format Ceefax does still exist for now.

Is there a Tv program schedule on the digital text service ??

Used to be page 601-604 on ceefax.

peter999

thor

I don't know about program schedules but the digital version of ceefax is far inferior to the old analogue one.

Heinz

peter999 wrote: »

Is there a Tv program schedule on the digital text service ??

Used to be page 601-604 on ceefax.

I think the EPG is viewed (sorry!) as a better version thereof.

I don't happen to agree and would prefer analogue text (or at least full screen text) back again.

giraffe69

I don't happen to agree and would prefer analogue text

Couldn't agree more. Digital Ceefax is slow, ponderous and with much less content than before.

penrhyn

Sorry, but analogue text??

I'd agree that the old ceefax service was more extensive than the one which replaced it, however we now have the interweb.

thor

penrhyn wrote: »

Sorry, but analogue text??

I'd agree that the old ceefax service was more extensive than the one which replaced it, however we now have the interweb.

True but the beauty of the old analogue text was that you didn't need any other connection other than the aerial link which was already in place to receive the programmes and it was completely free.
These days I don't bother with the tv news and weather because as you have quite rightly pointed out you can get it all online but in the days while the old ceefax(and teletext) was around, I used to use them for ease of convenience as well as zero cost.

penrhyn

Indeed, I was having a clear out the other day and found my old state of the art 56K dial up modem, those were the days!!

almillar

So as above, the 'red button' or digital interactive service, replaces Ceefax/Teletext. You access it by, um, pressing the red button. What a lot of people don't know is that, on the BBC anyway, you can still enter numbers instead of navigating the menus - if there's a number you're used to on Ceefax, try typing it and pressing OK or select - you'll see the numbers entered top right I think as you type them. Very handy...