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From: Carlos E.R.
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:20

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On 2018-08-23 15:44, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
> 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.

:-o

I thought it was treated differently by the TV set.

TV is digital now, but the service still runs.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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