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#234680 - 23/09/2004 11:48 Ceefax?
tman
carpal tunnel

Registered: 24/12/2001
Posts: 5528
One for the UK people but anybody actually use Ceefax? Apparently it is it's 30th birthday today.

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#234681 - 23/09/2004 11:58 Re: Ceefax? [Re: tman]
Cris
pooh-bah

Registered: 06/02/2002
Posts: 1904
Loc: Leeds, UK
I use it all the time, page 606 or 120 on ITV for Now and Next is the best thing for seeing what is coming up on the 5 standard channels.

No good of course if I'm watching freeview via the Tivo, whih has just broken

Cheers

Cris.

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#234682 - 23/09/2004 12:30 Re: Ceefax? [Re: Cris]
Roger
carpal tunnel

Registered: 18/01/2000
Posts: 5683
Loc: London, UK
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I use it all the time, page 606 or 120


Yeah, 606 is about all I use it for.

Anything else, I just wander into the spare room to use the Internet, or (for more pressing things, like arguments that can only be settled with IMDB) I grab the laptop and use the WiFi.
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#234683 - 23/09/2004 13:26 Re: Ceefax? [Re: Roger]
furtive
old hand

Registered: 14/08/2001
Posts: 886
Loc: London, UK
Haven't used it since I got Sky Digital a few years ago. I didn't know you could still get it
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#234684 - 23/09/2004 14:19 Re: Ceefax? [Re: furtive]
andy
carpal tunnel

Registered: 10/06/1999
Posts: 5916
Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK
Oddly there is more Ceefax on Sky Digital that just about anywhere else. Quite a few Sky Digital channels transmit Ceefax signals in their broadcasts.
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#234685 - 23/09/2004 15:22 Re: Ceefax? [Re: tman]
andym
carpal tunnel

Registered: 17/01/2002
Posts: 3996
Loc: Manchester UK
Yup 606 and 120 and occasionally 888 when somebody's on the phone. I also sometimes read the news in bed too.
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#234686 - 23/09/2004 16:25 Re: Ceefax? [Re: tman]
drakino
carpal tunnel

Registered: 08/06/1999
Posts: 7868
Seeing teletext used while I was over in Europe this past summer made me really wonder why it never made it to the US. It seemed really handy for all kinds of things, like watching the football score of multiple games at once.

Just another thing we brought over in an incomplete form I guess. Along with the concept of just one cell phone frequency standard and RDS. *sigh*

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#234687 - 24/09/2004 07:26 Re: Ceefax? [Re: drakino]
andym
carpal tunnel

Registered: 17/01/2002
Posts: 3996
Loc: Manchester UK
I'm sure one reason it never made it in the US was the lack of an adequate number of spare lines in the 525 NTSC signal. Mindyou, you guys are certainly making use of the technology, closed captioning seems to make use the VBI, or at least it did on the badly aligned TV i watched in my NY hotel room a couple of years ago.
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#234688 - 24/09/2004 16:43 Re: Ceefax? [Re: tman]
schofiel
carpal tunnel

Registered: 25/06/1999
Posts: 2993
Loc: Wareham, Dorset, UK
All the time over here - 601 and 602 for BBC times. My Dad and brother use it all the time (301) for football news. Over here it's pretty truncated now, but still useful.

Happy Birthday, Ceefax!
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