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Date   : Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:15:46 +0100
From   : samwise@... (samwise)
Subject: Fwd: ITV Teletext to shut down in January

Stupid question, perhaps, but would it be worth contacting the
teletext providers and seeing whether there's any chance they'd be
willing to provide a dump of the service data on the last day?

Can't hurt to ask?

Peter.

2009/7/17 Ian Wolstenholme <bbcmailinglist@...>:
> It's all very sad. ?I'm frantically trying to save as much as I can before it
> all gets turned off in our region in September. ?I was in Cornwall a couple of
> weeks ago and they were switching their analogue signal off whilst I was
> there.
>
> Unfortunately my Super VHS recordings aren't quite as good as I'd hoped-
> they are very nearly good enough to get perfect Teletext reception through
> the Teletext adapter, but there are sufficient errors each time to need
> each page to be manually edited after it's been downloaded.
>
> For the moment, I'm trying to save as many pages as I can directly
> from the broadcast signal. ?It's very time consuming though, and what I
> could really do with is a little routine which would work its way through
> all the pages and subpages from start to finish and save them as it
> goes along, checking for bad data received. ?I could then leave it on
> overnight or during the day and come back to lots of preserved data
> (or a smouldering ruin!!)
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
>
> Ian
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Daniel Bowen [mailto:danielbowen@...]
> To: bbc-micro@...
> Sent: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:57:39 +1000
> Subject: [BBC-Micro] Fwd: ?ITV Teletext to shut down in January
>
>>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jul/16/teletext-to-be-pulled-tv
>
> Aussies may be interested to know that the Austext service run by
> Channel 7 will shut down in September.
>
> http://www.mediaspy.org/report/2009/07/14/all-over-for-austext-but-subtitles-safe/
>
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
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