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Old 16-07-2009, 5:10 PM   #1
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Teletext to go in 6 months
I will miss the financial pages on C4 - find them better than Ceefax equivalent.

Teletext closing news service early - Yahoo! News UK
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Old 16-07-2009, 5:25 PM   #2
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Re: Teletext to go in 6 months
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I will miss the financial pages on C4 - find them better than Ceefax equivalent.

Teletext closing news service early - Yahoo! News UK
Teletext is going?! No more bamboozle!?
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Old 16-07-2009, 5:32 PM   #3
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Re: Teletext to go in 6 months
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Teletext is going?! No more bamboozle!?
HAHA! Bamboozle now that's bringing back memories.

I haven't used telextext since I got Sky, but prior to this I really enjoyed it.
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Old 16-07-2009, 5:33 PM   #4
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Re: Teletext to go in 6 months
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Teletext is going?! No more bamboozle!?
Is that still going??


My mother will be devastated, ceefax was her equivalent of t'internet.
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Old 16-07-2009, 5:40 PM   #5
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Re: Teletext to go in 6 months
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Teletext is going?! No more bamboozle!?
Wow that game was ace.

Seriously though, who the hell still uses teletext? Probably the same people who still use tapes and VHS and have pulse dialing telephones
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Old 16-07-2009, 5:47 PM   #6
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Re: Teletext to go in 6 months
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Is that still going??
I was going to post the same thing.
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Old 16-07-2009, 6:02 PM   #7
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Re: Teletext to go in 6 months
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HAHA! Bamboozle now that's bringing back memories.

I haven't used telextext since I got Sky, but prior to this I really enjoyed it.
Indeed it does

Same here, I remember before we got Sky teletext was the only way to check the footy scores!

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Seriously though, who the hell still uses teletext? Probably the same people who still use tapes and VHS and have pulse dialing telephones
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Old 16-07-2009, 6:14 PM   #8
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Re: Teletext to go in 6 months
Saw this earlier, sad news.
I used to spend ages on Ceefax to kill time. I'd get my daily news, my gaming fix from Digitizer, read the outrageous small ads and who could forget Bamboozle?

Seems bits of it will live on though. Holidays?
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Old 16-07-2009, 6:49 PM   #9
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Re: Teletext to go in 6 months
Sad news.

But then, I just worked out when I last used teletext. Stopped using it when I got my first projector...

...19th November 1994.

Jas.
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Old 16-07-2009, 6:53 PM   #10
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Re: Teletext to go in 6 months
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My mother will be devastated, ceefax was her equivalent of t'internet.
She'll be OK then. It's Teletext (used to be called ORACLE) that's going, not CEEFAX.

It's never worked properly on DVB-T anyway.
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Old 16-07-2009, 7:16 PM   #11
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Re: Teletext to go in 6 months
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Saw this earlier, sad news.
I used to spend ages on Ceefax to kill time. I'd get my daily news, my gaming fix from Digitizer, read the outrageous small ads and who could forget Bamboozle?

Seems bits of it will live on though. Holidays?
man with the big chin
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Old 16-07-2009, 7:25 PM   #12
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Re: Teletext to go in 6 months
I remember bamboozle LOL those were the days.

I still use teletext, it's much quicker than the digi version by a country mile and actually uses the whole screen not a ting portion covered with adverts!

My Dad used to have a TV that you could select and move up the sub pages of a teletext page with the remote not when teletext felt like, great feature.

Liam
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Old 16-07-2009, 7:29 PM   #13
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Re: Teletext to go in 6 months
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man with the big chin


The last week of Digitizer (after all the controversy) is HERE
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Old 16-07-2009, 7:44 PM   #14
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Re: Teletext to go in 6 months
My dad still uses it for the footy scores, do virgin have something similar? If not he will cry..literally.

On bamboozle, I used to use the cheat, anyone else?
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Old 16-07-2009, 7:46 PM   #15
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Re: Teletext to go in 6 months
Sorry, but I'd rather focus on the internet.

With Ceefax/Oracle/Teletext/Whatever you're looking at early 80's BBC Micro model B "graphics". I should know, I programmed the damn things.
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Old 16-07-2009, 7:49 PM   #16
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Re: Teletext to go in 6 months
My dad doesn't have a clue about the internets.
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Re: Teletext to go in 6 months
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Sorry, but I'd rather focus on the internet.

With Ceefax/Oracle/Teletext/Whatever you're looking at early 80's BBC Micro model B "graphics". I should know, I programmed the damn things.
Did you programme Chucky Egg too??
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Old 16-07-2009, 9:12 PM   #18
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Re: Teletext to go in 6 months
Great for news/footy/weather/finance.

From switching the telly I can get the news (teletext/ceefax) in 3 seconds. I agree that things change when I want to go to different pages.
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Old 16-07-2009, 9:51 PM   #19
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Re: Teletext to go in 6 months
Gutted man, no bamboozle
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Old 17-07-2009, 9:36 AM   #20
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Re: Teletext to go in 6 months
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Sorry, but I'd rather focus on the internet.

With Ceefax/Oracle/Teletext/Whatever you're looking at early 80's BBC Micro model B "graphics"..
I can still remember pre BBC Micro graphics, when "Grand Prix Racing" involved driving the letter "H" around a maze of grey and black squares.

Almost incomprehensible leap in development.
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Old 17-07-2009, 9:38 AM   #21
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Re: Teletext to go in 6 months
When it's gone will subtitles still be provided?
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When it's gone will subtitles still be provided?
fair point
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man with the big chin

What about the "Opinionated Pig"?
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Old 17-07-2009, 10:27 AM   #24
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Re: Teletext to go in 6 months
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When it's gone will subtitles still be provided?
Subtitles are alive n well on digital/ freeview. Either way, when the switch happens, the old style will be gone.
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Subtitles are alive n well on digital/ freeview. Either way, when the switch happens, the old style will be gone.
freeview and sat have there own carrier for subtitles

why would anyone still be using this service? stopped using it in 96 i think when i got compuserve "go TV"
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Old 17-07-2009, 10:42 AM   #26
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Subtitles are alive n well on digital/ freeview. Either way, when the switch happens, the old style will be gone.
I'm with VM and you can't get digital telextext through the standard set top box. Don't know if it's possible with V+
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