Date   : Thu, 04 Aug 2011 18:02:10 +0100
From   : tim.fardell@... (Tim Fardell)
Subject: Morley teletext adapter anyone?

Gary McCallum wrote:
>
> On 4 Aug 2011, at 15:56, F. Haroon wrote:
>
>> What teletext transmissions? You got some teletext creating kit?
>> That might be something worth us keeping our adaptors for... don't
>> throw your stuff away people!
>>
>> Fiaz.
>>
>
>
> I've just checked and we still get Ceefax on BBC 1 and BBC 2. ITV 1
> has a holding page, a subtitles page and a page on digital switchover.
> There is no service from Channel 4 or Channel 5.
>
> For reference this is from the Pontop Pike transmitter which covers
> most of Tyne and Wear, bits of Northumberland and the northern part of
> County Durham.
>
> So I've 'got use' for a teletext adapter, but I'd rather it wen't to a
> better home as I'd only use it out of curiosity.

Perhaps worth pointing out that S-VHS video recorders (and probably 
other hi-band analogue video recorder types) capture Teletext data 
along with the picture.

So if you get a nice new E-180 S-VHS tape, and record three hours of 
analogue TV now, you'll effectively have your own personal source of 
Teletext data after digital switchover.

Digital recorders (e.g. DVD recorders) will probably not work because 
they are only interested in the visible picture information, and will 
carefully avoid capturing the lines containing the Teletext data.