Date   : Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:02:33 +0000 (GMT)
From   : tommowalker@... (Tom Walker)
Subject: Teletext

> On a related point, can teletext information be recovered from existing
> off-air recordings?? I've a few videotapes from the late 1980s and early
> 1990s (and onwards) and it would be nice to be able to download Teletext
> pages from this era, as all this information has probably been lost 
> forever.

>From what I understand, VHS tapes don't have enough bandwidth to reliably
decode Teletext. SVHS does though, and apparently works quite well for this.

DVD will probably be useless, as it will only store the visible picture,
and miss everything else out (including the Teletext lines).

Tom