Date   : Mon, 29 Aug 2005 19:04:00 +0100
From   : "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <beeb@...>
Subject: Re: Teletext

* Jules Richardson (julesrichardsonuk@...) wrote:
> Ian Wolstenholme wrote:
> >What is going to happen when the analogue TV signal is switched
> >off?  (Apart from me not being able to watch TV any more!!)
> >
> >Will all the Teletext Adapters instantly become defunct?
> 
> Presumably a homebrew very-low-power transmitter would be possible 
> though, with a range of just a few metres. Hook it up to a video 
> recorder say to provide a teletext source and then receive via a 
> teletext adapter in the normal way.

Do you even need that - surely a Model B has a perfectly good
UHF modulator that should go into a teletext adapter - can you
encode a teletext signal on the output of a model B ?

Dave
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