Bye bye Teletext

[Alf W]

Thank god for the demise of teletext. Maybe now my Father In-Law won't f*** up my TV everytime he comes to visit trying to access it.

[RichardCranium]

There's been a murder in Maryhill.

Therrre's been a murrrrrrder in Marrrrrryhill.

[expat]

Especially useful with Taggart....

I saw Maggie Bell recently - someone who has stuck to singing the blues and looking her real age, not gone the pop music then botox route of fellow Maryhill lass Lulu - who sang the Taggart theme tune and appeared in one episode. She described her dad's reaction to hearing that she was in it: "so, dae ye get shagged tae death or stabbed tae death?"

Who needs subtitles? There's been a murder in Maryhill. This town is getting more like Chicago every day. Etc etc standard plots.....

[Sysman]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8154022.stm

Teletext is still useful for me when programmes are running late. No updates either on t'internet or the EPG, but the delayed start times can be found on Teletext.

[expat]

On the one hand I am quite sorry to hear of its demise.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8154022.stm

But then again I haven't used it for years since the internet took off.



It just makes me feel old because I remember when it was new.

My OH likes to watch TV with subtitles on sometimes. With teletext that was a quick option (888), with our Freeview Digital set it's five levels of menu, not all intuitive. Sigh.

[RichardCranium]

Bring back Freelance Informer and send a typed CV or on floppy disk.

I took a 5¼" floppy with my CV on into Computer People in Hemel Hempstead in 1995. They had no way of getting it off ... because nobody there knew how.

[orac]

Bring back Freelance Informer

Bring back Freelance Informer and send a typed CV or on floppy disk.

[Cliphead]

I remember when IT contracts were advertised on Teletext.
Those were the days, none of the bull tulip you get these days.

PZZ

I got my first contract via Teletext.

[pzz76077]

I remember when IT contracts were advertised on Teletext.
Those were the days, none of the bull tulip you get these days.

PZZ

[chef]

<note to self: buy Samsung when the CRT blows up...>

buy or build a media center instead and link it to a nice flat screen lcd tv, that way you have t'internet AND tv all in one place with the ability to record say 3 channels and watch 1 to your hearts content

[GreenerGrass]

Anyone remember Digitiser?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitiser

I think I had a Sega Saturn at the time.

[cojak]

<note to self: buy Samsung when the CRT blows up...>

[eliquant]

This is the future on my TV right now as a replacement to Teletext:


http://connectedtv.yahoo.com/partners/samsung


ok its extremely restricted internet right now but in the future they hopefully will bring NetFlix from the USA with over 200,000 movies on demand straight to the TV in moments !

[pmeswani]

On the one hand I am quite sorry to hear of its demise.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8154022.stm

But then again I haven't used it for years since the internet took off.



It just makes me feel old because I remember when it was new.

Were you one of those people that played Bamboozled (or whaterver it was called) when it first became available on Teletext?

[Gonzo]

On the one hand I am quite sorry to hear of its demise.

Teletext to switch off in January

The Teletext news and information service on analogue channels will end in January next year, two years ahead of schedule, its owner has announced.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8154022.stm

But then again I haven't used it for years since the internet took off.



It just makes me feel old because I remember when it was new.