Closes down today. Has been an incredible resource for years.
Goodbye Teletext
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No way, surely it's still used?
Aye, but apparently couldn't make it profitable. Still going to run Teletext holidays, etc, but the non-commercial services are clsing.
Not overly surprising actually the more I think about it, as useful as it sometimes is it's quite infrequent that I'll use it these days.
I read Gamecentral pretty much every day along with the football. Going to miss it!
Even on digital?
I remember the good old days of watching a United match entirely through teletext, talk about tense!
Yup.
I take it you know that GC will continue online?
Yes Yes
Ahh, those were the days. Forget all this Jeff Stelling rubbish. Staring at a black screen with a few fixtures on it for 90 minutes, oh the anticipation!feckin hope not. i still use digital txt on a regular basis.
I used to do this a lot. Getting excited about a black screen!! Them were the days.
True enough. Have to say that digitext is just a watered down version of ceefax/teletext.How will Cathy Ferguson keep up to date with the United scores?
Wtf? 
haha will never forget doing this as a young child in 1992/93 Man United v Sheffield Wednesday
worst bit was when it changed page, you'd wait ages for it to go back hoping to see a goal
Tbf, i havnt used teletext since I was about 11
Wtf is teletext? Is it just another name for Teletubbies that i haven't heard of before? In that case
Not that long ago then.
Ceefax 606 and Teletext 120 will be sorely missed.
I remember the ITV version of teletex, on the United page it always had that flashing banner "Italian/Brazilian/French/etc senstation close to signing for united" Call now for more info. And yes, the little gullible 12 year old version of me had to ring that £1.50 per minute number!!
I'm gonna miss those days
I'm gonna miss those days
Wtf?
It's a actually an archaic leftover from the way that analogue TV works, in that it's sent in the top 50 lines or so directly after the vertical blank. It makes no sense to have it in digital TV whatsoever.
Me and my dad used to watch United on teletext sometimes. It was actually quite exciting.
Some of you do realise that it has been superseded by something else? It's not like it's being chucked in the bin without some form of replacement.
used to like playing Bamboozled
Haha yeah Bamboozle was quality.
Even after all these years, I know it's 302 to go straight to football on BBC, or actually, was it 304?
What is it being replaced by?
Some sort of internet is needed.
I thought that's what he was getting at. Hardly the same.
Lots of new TVs now have Internet capability, most in the near future will be running their own web browser. That's by the by however, what about basic MHEG (known to most in the UK as the Red Button)? With the switching off of the analogue signal, you may find more information on there.
It's 302, and Ceefax still exists.
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I don't think the red button will be as useful in future. And the internet capability of tv's in the future isn't of much use to people now. Nor to those who can't afford the extra outgoing.
In terms of the BBC, the idea would be PJ that when using the red button, the TV web browser, be it MHEG driven or Flash driven or whatever, would be sent to the correct information on bbc.co.uk (you could even have the navigation interface work in a similar way to teletext), but the data would be drawn down your broadband pipe rather than sent over the air. Broadcasting that type of content is folly. Teletext could get away with it because of its very limited nature. So what will happen is that the pointers to the information on the web will be sent over the air, but then the content itself will be pulled down over the net.
Teletex is a pointless dinosaur. It was cak before the internet and is even more so now. Foggies who don't understand this newfangled Wide Worlded Interweb thingumy will miss it.
But that still requires a broadband connection. I mean, in the small estate where I live, only 3 of the 12 houses have internet (mine not being one of them). Don't underestimate the importance of teletext in less well off areas. There are no viable replacements now, which is when they are needed.