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From: Jorgen Grahn
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 13:44

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On Tue, 2018-08-21, Carlos E.R. wrote:
> On 2018-08-20 22:06, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
>> On Mon, 2018-08-20, Anssi Saari wrote:
>>> Ian
>>> <${send-direct-email-to-news1021...@jusme.com>
>>> writes:
>>>
>>>> "Teletext was the equivalent service on channels such as ITV and Channel 4"
>>>>
>>>> Teletext was the technology, Ceefax was the BBC version and Oracle was the
>>>> commercial one...
>>>
>>> I had no idea Teletext has died in the UK. Still available in Finland at
>>> least and still handy for news headlines and weather.
>> 
>> Sweden, too.  I suspect a lot of people still use it for news, since:
>> - It's by nature brief and text-only.
>> - You can read it during commercial breaks or when there's briefly
>>   something boring on in general.
>
> I think it was also used to transmit optional subtitles or voice caption.

Yes; that's still done in Sweden.  If I understand correctly, they send
a page that's mostly transparent cells, so you're looking at the original
video through the text display.

/Jorgen

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