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How many people still use Teletext?
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We used to use it all the time for looking for cheap holidays, my mum would decide where she wants to go and spend ages writing down details as the offer whizzed by.
Now we use the internet and holiday websites for bookings.
I think the only thing I look up on teletext is TV guide but mostly use Sky TV's guide 99% of the time.
I used to read horoscopes on teletext years ago, now never even bother!!
Now we use the internet and holiday websites for bookings.
I think the only thing I look up on teletext is TV guide but mostly use Sky TV's guide 99% of the time.
I used to read horoscopes on teletext years ago, now never even bother!!
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Aahhhh bless his little cotton socks!!
Why don't you get him connected on the internet??
I introduced my uncle who was in his 70's before he died to the internet and he totally loved it, he wrote his life story in word and then we put it on the internet on my spare webspace and we put a little counter on it and we'd seen how many peopl ehad been to the website .. he toally loved the concept that people from all over the world were reading his work. It's shame that was about three or four years ago though before ADSL broadband took off otherwise I'm sure he'd have used the internet to it fullest extent without worrying about the cost.
I use it to read the local news too.
I'm supposed to have a program with my PC's TV card that can let me view Teletext, but it only seems to produce gibberish.
Mr_Wobble
Which make/model TV Card do you have?
I have a Happuage TV card and last tim I tried it worked reall well as it stores all the pages in the memory
I have an Avermedia TV Studio card, with FM radio built in, and remote control. The only glitches I have with it are the aforementioned Teletext not functioning properly, and the fact that when I come back from full screen mode it has resized all my programs windows to 640x480, making me have to resize and maximise them all again.
Mr_Wobble
Teletext on ITV is just crap!
OMG hoe could I forget them?! I used to read them, but backchat is loads of Busted/Blue fans called kayleigh etc saying how they cant get a boyfriend and stuff.
Oh, and for all you nerds- c4 p382. I mean the nerdiest of the nerds. Im talking Star Wars/Matrix references and everything. But with no forums, its good enough
Isn't that the Mega Zine thing? I used to love that for it's utter weirdness then all the cool people stopped writing in and I got so bored with it!
:yes: I still read though. Had a feeling you might too.
Damn, is it that obvious?!
Everyone should at least know of it, it's an institution. Methinks I may have to get back into it...
Good old 606.
yea i read that aswell, i think teletext s the quickest most accessible way to information, others take too long
the only thing I look up on teletext is TV guide
I didn't know you had it over in Australia, don't think there's a similar system in the USA.
I'm also a big fan of the information you get about all the shows on cable at the bottom of the screen, but thats not quite the same.
I prefer to Use BBCi and interactive digital teletext now I've got freeview in my room.
sorry ... in a sarcy mood
have a leadtech one and the teletext works really well on it.
But I only really use teletext for checking tv times, footy scores and cinmea times, although wap on my phone is taking over most of them really.
Bamboozler? I used to play that all the time, before NTL fucked it up.
Read Mega Zine as well, there's a yahoo group dedicated to members of the Zine called Vegetable Revolution. Dunno if it's still running or not, haven't been there in about a year.
I use it for the Now and Next thingy and the TV guide (cos I'm too much of a cheap skate to buy a tv guide) but my teletext only works on channel 3 - the other channels aren't tuned in enough to get it!