In article <FPGdnZ8BOfJb-u_anZ2dnUVZ_uOmnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Frank J. Lhota
<FrankLho.NOSPAM@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> ender wrote:
> > On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 19:32:56 -0500, Frank J. Lhota wrote: Teletext is
> > still around (even though the popularity has diminished since the
> > advent of Internet), and the headlines are always followed by the page
> > number where you can read the full story. There's also an extension to
> > the standard that adds higher quality graphics, but the decoders that
> > sup****t that, and TV stations that broadcast in this format are very
> > rare.
> In the late 1970's, some U.S. stations dabbled in Teletext. It never
> really caught on in the states. Zenith, the only major manufacturer of
> NTSC televisions with teletext sup****t, eventually dropped the teletext
> decoder in favor of closed captioning.
There was a second teletext format that was experimented with in such
areas which allowed for higher resolution (the amount of throughput that
was needed combined with the early state of the technology used was the
reason behind the low quality block graphics and text format originally
used by BBC and ITV services in the beginning). It never really caught on.
> It appears that the internet is killing off teletext even faster than it
> is killing off dead tree newspapers. The end is in site for the BBC
> CEEFAX service:
> http://teletext.mb21.co.uk/gallery/ceefax/end.shtml
Close to the truth, though Ceefax has been revived in another form on
satellite but using a completely different format. Teletext on terrestrial
services continues as normal, though its future is closely tied to the
change of service from analogue to digital which will be taking place over
the course of the next few years.
ITV's original teletext service, Oracle, was replaced some years ago by
the imaginatively named "Teletext" provider, which is currently doing
similar sorts of changes on ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 services, though
isolated classic teletext style services continue on various channels for
advertising, reviews and so forth.
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