How Teletext and Ceefax are coming back from the dead

Re:How Teletext and Ceefax are coming back from the dead by ptaipale on Monday August 08, 2016 @08:47AM (#12247272)

Same in Nordics (Finland, Sweden, Norway).

It's not true that there wouldn't be point in using teletext even if the same information is available over the web. First of all, the access to teletext is convenient if you just have the TV remote - browsing with so-called "smart TV's" is painful (bad UX) and switching to an actual computer involves changing TV input, and losing possibility to watch TV picture and hear the sound at the same time.

Lots of people here use teletext e.g. to check up sports results and latest news on headline level.

And, as someone pointed out, even the Web version of Text-TV pages is often good: it's snappy and fast even if you only have a 2G connection.

Sweden: http://www.svt.se/svttext/web/pages/100.html

Finland: http://www.yle.fi/tekstitv/txt/P100_01.html

Norway: https://nrk.no/tekst-tv/100/

Denmark: http://www.dr.dk/nav/tekstttv/indexx.htm

(These are the public broadcaster pages; commercial channels have their own, similar ones.)

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Re:How Teletext and Ceefax are coming back from the dead by skrause on Monday August 08, 2016 @05:42PM (#12251084)

I have the mobile site of the teletext by one of the German public broadcasters bookmarked in my phone simply because it loads so quickly even on a slow mobile 2G connection: http://www.ard-text.de/mobil/100

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Re:How Teletext and Ceefax are coming back from the dead by cJ0th on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @10:40AM (#12254762)

woah ... this is cool. only knew the more traditional teletext website: http://www.ard-text.de/

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Re:How Teletext and Ceefax are coming back from the dead by hugi on Monday August 08, 2016 @09:11AM (#12247418)

And Iceland:

http://www.textavarp.is/100/

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Re:How Teletext and Ceefax are coming back from the dead by ptaipale on Monday August 08, 2016 @11:45AM (#12248643)

I left that out because I can't read it at all :) But yes, same thing.

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Re:How Teletext and Ceefax are coming back from the dead by gpvos on Monday August 08, 2016 @10:03AM (#12247809)

It differs a lot by country. For example, Flemish (Belgian) teletext has just been switched off.

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Re:How Teletext and Ceefax are coming back from the dead by akeruu on Monday August 08, 2016 @11:53AM (#12248698)

French speaking part of the country still have it, even online [0]

[0] http://www.rtbf.be/services/teletexte

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Re:How Teletext and Ceefax are coming back from the dead by gpvos on Monday August 08, 2016 @03:35PM (#12250318)

Good.

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