RIP Ceefax 1974-2012 as UK completes digital TV switchover
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[QUOTE=CatFodder;38144995][img]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oVtYyhLOtpw/T47HcOeaIOI/AAAAAAAAAHg/SFjSKphW4ec/s1600/teletext-bamboozle.jpg[/img]
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I remember this game, I got bamboozled every time. :(
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqTKBI1ImTw#t=26s[/media]
Are they sub titles?
[QUOTE=smurfy;38140278]Can't find the last broadcast of Pages from Ceefax but here's the penultimate one
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=devD8HzjZc8[/media]
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they should release a ceefax greatest hits album or something. :-)
Ceefax was the only good thing about analogue television where I live. Lucky Northern Ireland, I lost Ceefax a year ago.
[QUOTE=Whomobile;38145141]Some Australian TV channels still offer a similar service, mainly for gambling and betting.[/QUOTE]
there's only one teletext channel and the last time i was on it (2008) it was still being updated, I don't have any tv in my knowledge with me that supports it
Here is the actual final screen of Pages from Ceefax
[img]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/63644000/jpg/_63644556_63644555.jpg[/img]
BBC Two used their 1980s ident to introduce it and the announcer [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20034328]gave it a sendoff[/url] "Time to hit the road"
And a bunch of people [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20032882]paid tribute to it[/url]
[QUOTE=Oicani Gonzales;38147177]I've never seen this before, how did it work? Was it interactive or just a channel that showed text news?
I really have no idea of what this is[/QUOTE]
You pressed the Text button on the remote and this came up. It was interactive; it had numbered pages, so you type in 101 to get News Headlines and stuff
But also, in the late hours when no one was really watching, BBC Two showed "Pages from Ceefax" which just cycled through pages with some easy listening music.
Today we have "the red button" as the modern equivalent but I don't know if other countries have that
[QUOTE=Oicani Gonzales;38147177]I've never seen this before, how did it work? Was it interactive or just a channel that showed text news?
I really have no idea of what this is[/QUOTE]
It was interactive, the index would tell you what you can view, when you found something interesting, there was a number beside it that was like the readmore so you typed it in, you got to read it and yeah. It was primitive but it worked, and I still find it cool.
I keep reading that this service isn't going to be dead, they're thinking of replacing it, not by using teletext but as a side option from the red button
[editline]23rd October 2012[/editline]
fuckin hell smurfy
[editline]23rd October 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=smurfy;38147214]Today we have "the red button" as the modern equivalent but I don't know if other countries have that[/QUOTE]
In Australia, red button services are only offered to people with subscription television (foxtel, austar, optus vision). Free-to-air does not have a red button service yet most if not all television digital sets all have a red button on it.
The red button is only used here for:
-Voting (Nickelodeon kids choice awards)
-Promotions (they're normally referred to the green button but still)
-News interactive services (weather channel, skynews)
-Multi-choice (sport channels use this a lot in matches, you can have like the crowd, the referee/umpire, commentary only etc. also has a lot of stats)
-Multi-channel (MTV used this a fuckton, they had classic, hits, music house.. Also other music channels have it as well I guess)
-Interactive services (games for example but foxtel ditched it because it was pretty stupid, you'd have to buy a game which would be $2 and it'd be 5 levels of some shitty, hard to play button shooter)
yeah
Rest In Peace.
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;38147220]It was interactive, the index would tell you what you can view, when you found something interesting, there was a number beside it that was like the readmore so you typed it in, you got to read it and yeah. It was primitive but it worked, and I still find it cool.
I keep reading that this service isn't going to be dead, they're thinking of replacing it, not by using teletext but as a side option from the red button
[editline]23rd October 2012[/editline]
fuckin hell smurfy
[editline]23rd October 2012[/editline]
In Australia, red button services are only offered to people with subscription television (foxtel, austar, optus vision). Free-to-air does not have a red button service yet most if not all television digital sets all have a red button on it.
The red button is only used here for:
-Voting (Nickelodeon kids choice awards)
-Promotions (they're normally referred to the green button but still)
-News interactive services (weather channel, skynews)
-Multi-choice (sport channels use this a lot in matches, you can have like the crowd, the referee/umpire, commentary only etc. also has a lot of stats)
-Multi-channel (MTV used this a fuckton, they had classic, hits, music house.. Also other music channels have it as well I guess)
-Interactive services (games for example but foxtel ditched it because it was pretty stupid, you'd have to buy a game which would be $2 and it'd be 5 levels of some shitty, hard to play button shooter)
yeah[/QUOTE]
Freeview Australia tried to introduce some standards for interactive red button stuff about a year ago.
They fucked the whole thing up.
[QUOTE=matt.ant;38139740]My family used to book holidays on Teletext, except our remote didn't have a 'freeze' button so we had to wait for it to come back around every time to write the details down[/QUOTE]
Packed it, booked it, fucked off!
[QUOTE=Desuh;38144411]When I was a kid I fapped to the pixel girls in the phonesex ads.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://stuartnoel.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/ceefax.jpg[/img]
Wow, no one posted the look around you ceefaxs?
[video=youtube;x4Og6kLvv5A]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4Og6kLvv5A[/video]
I miss you ceefax, even though i haven't really used you that much.
I just remembered the Science news section, 152 or something like that. It was pretty good!
I used to enjoy the music before Cartoons in the morning when I was a kid.
RIP, you creepy pixellated bastard. My childhood was haunted by stuff like Ceefax.
I'll miss having my dad ask me this one question
[quote]Son, how do I get the teletext up?[/quote]
:(
Crap, how will I fall asleep now? Seriously the music really helped when it got [I]that[/I] late.
[QUOTE=Jsm;38149277]Crap, how will I fall asleep now? Seriously the music really helped when it got [I]that[/I] late.[/QUOTE]
Use a recording?
[QUOTE=matt.ant;38147704][img]http://stuartnoel.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/ceefax.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
Only 49 pfennig's? Bargain!
Makes you wonder how old that image is.
[QUOTE=Jsm;38151901]Only 49 pfennig's? Bargain!
Makes you wonder how old that image is.[/QUOTE]
2001, the date is in the top right, so just before the euro
Aaaand [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-20048154]it's gone forever[/url], the UK's last analogue TV signal in Northern Ireland was just switched off
[editline]24th October 2012[/editline]
The last thing ever shown on Ceefax (there was then an animation as if an old TV was being switched off)
[img]http://puu.sh/1i1Jb[/img]
That looks really awesome, I wish we had something like that I could just idle on my tv at night.
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