Date   : Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:26:53 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Morley Teletext Adapter

Peter Coghlan wrote:

> In the last week or so I was randomly looking for teletext services with
> my crappy Silvercrest satellite receiver pointing to 28.whatever degrees.

Mine is an SL-65 (the ALi chip one, third version?!?) and it works quite 
nicely, though I do wish it had a "hold" function for teletext pages!


> I was rather pleased to find the service on "five" as now I would be able
> to know in advance that there was nothing worth watching on "five" rather
> than having to check what it was showing from time to time :-)

Only really today/tomorrow. You might find http://www.tvguide.co.uk/ a 
better bet? That's where I get my Zone Horror listings from, though I 
can't say if they list Irish channels - never looked!
The initial presentation is side-to-side EPG-like (yuck!), but if you 
click a channel it will give a decent normal whole-day listing. I 
usually click on BBC1 and then select Zone Horror from the drop-down 
list, I think that's the quickest way to get to what I want. Might work 
for you if Irish channels are included?


 > I was always somewhat puzzled as to why the satellite receiver allows me
 > to scan for encrypted channels but appears to have no facility for 
decoding
 > them but now I can see some utility in this!

I always figured "because it can". It's quite amusing that various 
data/EPG/interactive/HD services turn up as radio channels. I guess the 
firmware understands "television channel" and anything that isn't is 
considered a radio channel! :-)


> (although the satellite receiver seems to make a bit of a mess of timing
 > their display, blanking them too quickly to read.)

I usually record what I watch on my PVR. It would be nice for subtitling 
  as an option, but I don't fancy the stuff being burned into the 
recording...


> (Digital terrestrial is off to an extremely slow start here in Ireland with
> only testing going on so far.

Is this an issue of finance, or are people in Ireland less interested? 
Certainly the RT? teletext seems a lot larger and more detailed than I 
remember BBCi on my Sky receiver. As for BBCi on FreeSat, I think "basic 
functionality" would best describe it...


Best wishes,

Rick.

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