Date   : Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:12:22 +0200
From   : anders.carlsson@... (Anders Carlsson)
Subject: Fw: Fwd: ITV Teletext to shut down in January

Phil Blundell wrote:

> once the analogue signal is switched off (and hence there are no "legacy" 
> teletext receivers to worry about), the people generating the content 
> presumably won't want to be constrained by the 40x24 format anymore.

True, I never thought about people actually are producing the content. Pure 
text should be reasonably easy to auto format and restrain in length but 
sometimes they add block graphics too.

I don't know about you, but a couple of the major Swedish broadcasters even 
went the other way. They publish the content of teletext on the Internet:

SVT (public service like BBC): http://svt.se/svttext/web/pages/100.html
TV4 (commercial all-purpose): http://nyhetskanalen.se/1.633665
TV3 (commercial, more narrow): http://www.tv3.se/text-tv

The only analog broadcasts still remaining are those via cable TV, customers 
like me who yet didn't sign up for digital cable. I wonder if publishing 
teletext pages on the web is a by-effect of producing them at all or will 
itself be a reason enough to keep the service running.

Best regards

-- 
Anders Carlsson