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Article #625647Re: The extinct tech you forgot existed
From: Jorgen Grahn
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 17:58
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 17:58
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On Thu, 2018-08-23, Carlos E.R. wrote: > 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: ... >>>>> 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. Well, I don't /know/ for sure, but it's the metaphor I use whenever I happen to go to page 199 where the subtitles live. > TV is digital now, but the service still runs. My TV set broke down last week. I may want to replace it, but I don't understand the feature set of the current models. What's a "SmartTV" and do I want one? Etc. /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Oo o. . . \X/ snipabacken.se> O o .
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