Date   : Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:20:25 +0000
From   : robert@... (Rob)
Subject: Teletext receiver revisited

On 26/11/2009, Rick Murray <rick@...> wrote:
> Rob wrote:
>
>> I seem to recall there was some Reuters stuff on there, but we're
>> talking about 15 years ago here, so I can't actually remember!  I
>> think some or most of it was further encoded.
>
> You sure you aren't thinking of CNN International in the old analogue
> days? They carried a lot of Reuters stuff and premium information
> services which required a decoder box.

You know you might be right there.. I know it was a satellite channel.
 (And some of the foreign channels had some alternate form of teletext
that tripped one of our tellys into a different mode to display it,
which messed up the UK teletext when you switched back...)


> Damn - on a harddisc somewhere, or tape?, I oughta have a copy of some
> of these pages. I did wonder about trying to decode them until I
> realised I'm nowhere near good enough at maths to pull that off...

Might be worth posting them, just so we can see ;-)


> ...and if I was, I think I'd rather try to work out how the RAI Uno
> "telesoftware" works.
> http://www.televideo.rai.it/televideo/pub/popupTelevideo.jsp?p=780&s=1&r=Nazionale&idmenumain=0&x=0&y=0&pagetocall=popupTelevideo.jsp
> (it is supposed to be in a popup sized to fit, in case it looks odd)
>

It could be using data lines (lines 25-31, not displayed on screen)but
not understanding a word of what it says on those pages I'd not really
want to hazard a guess.

Rob