One for the UK people but anybody actually use Ceefax? Apparently it is it's 30th birthday today.

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.

Haven't used it since I got Sky Digital a few years ago. I didn't know you could still get it

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.

Yup 606 and 120 and occasionally 888 when somebody's on the phone. I also sometimes read the news in bed too.

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*

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.

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!