Ceefax - RIP

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On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:13:04 +0100, Roger Mills
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What a whinger he is!

He says:

However, my digibox still doesn't seem to work reliably, something I
might try to do something about if there was much on any of the 40
channels I ever wanted to watch.

Those 40 channels include the channels he was happy to watch on
analogue. The fact that he hasn't yet bothered to have his reception
sorted out suggests that even the channels he used to watch on analogue
are not really worth bothering about.

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I still feel people want an old fashioned teletext service as the digital
text is no good and awkward to read for many.

Brian

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On 18/04/2012 12:19, Brian Gaff wrote:
I still feel people want an old fashioned teletext service as the digital
text is no good and awkward to read for many.

The most useful thing I used to get from analogue Ceefax was the time
more or less right to the second on the top line. The digital
replacement text only gives the hours and minutes, and I guess the
various delays in encoding and decoding mean that doesn't always change
right on the minute. That's a real loss of functionality.


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In article , Clive Page wrote:
The most useful thing I used to get from analogue Ceefax was the time
more or less right to the second on the top line. The digital
replacement text only gives the hours and minutes, and I guess the
various delays in encoding and decoding mean that doesn't always change
right on the minute. That's a real loss of functionality.

True, but an internet-connected computer makes up for it.

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On 18/04/2012 10:13 AM, Roger Mills wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17745100



i used to like reading the ceefax letters while eating breakfast each
morning - there's no reason why it couldn't be put onto digital text.

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