Date   : Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:25:28 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Last day of teletext in London

Hi,

On 19.2E, both CNN and CNBC brought their services to an end quite a while 
back. It looks like EuroNews no longer offers text, although the service
was always a little quirky (word wrap sometimes didn't, and articles sourced
elsewhere and auto-converted would frequently miss the bottom line(s)!).

There are still some teletext services, but not in English. Would work on
a RISC OS machine (or PC with my Teletext software) but will just look wrong
on a Beeb.
I believe TV5FBS and TV5Monde do all their schedules and stuff in teletext still.

I've not checked recently, but a good source of English teletext was AERTel 
(sp!). Get your (British) Digibox tuned to RT?1 and RT?2. Don't worry if
it says the signal is scrambled (it is), the teletext content is inserted
all the same and is therefore accessible.

That said, I don't consult teletext very often these days. It's simpler 
to use the internet. I go to www.tvguide.co.uk for schedules (there is an 
app too, but it doesn't do the overview mode), I have an app for NHK World,
and my news comes from an app, from TheRegister, and when I listen (most
weeknights) from The World Tonight on Radio Four.

Nothing else matters. I guess I'm getting to old to bother reading the news
in Spanish, French, and attempting to figure out the Italian. ;-)


Best wishes,

Rick.

"F. Haroon" <haroonnet2002@...> wrote:

>I wonder how many analogue services outside Europe still have such a teletext
system that we could somehow tap into, and writes in English?
>
>Fiaz
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