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Re:How Teletext and Ceefax are coming back from the dead by gpvos on Monday August 08, 2016 @10:09AM (#12247860)
Yes, that's the system that the BBC wants to replace teletext with. As far as I know, it has not been implemented in any other country. I haven't seen much of it, but my impression is that it doesn't offer enough additional functionality over teletext, so other countries just stuck with that; for new functionality, it has basically been overtaken by the internet.
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Re:How Teletext and Ceefax are coming back from the dead by kalleboo on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @05:40AM (#12253470)
In Japan we have the "d button" with similar services - weather, news headlines, and for some shows dedicated program information and interactive services like voting. Of course they use a home-grown standard called BML

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_Markup_Language

"The STD-B24 specification is derived from an early draft of XHTML 1.0 strict, which it extends and alters. Some subset of CSS 1 and 2 is supported, as well as ECMAScript."

It can look something like this:

Weather/news http://www.city.isa.kagoshima.jp/image/mbc.jpg

Realtime twitter timeline http://trendy.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/column/20101201/1033778...

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Re:How Teletext and Ceefax are coming back from the dead by RobertKerans on Monday August 08, 2016 @02:49PM (#12249993)
When it works it's really good, but that's for one specific thing at a time - Olympics or Glastonbury for example. It's a shame really, someone in one of the other comments mentioned split-screen with TV and teletext which I think is ideal for some things (eg football, for me), and red button stuff just isn't as simple, or give anything like the same consistency
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Re:How Teletext and Ceefax are coming back from the dead by skrause on Monday August 08, 2016 @05:49PM (#12251114)
Other countries have adopted HbbTV instead and it looks like the BBC will also switch away from MHEG: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/statements/hbb-tv-standards
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Re:How Teletext and Ceefax are coming back from the dead by david-given on Monday August 08, 2016 @06:10PM (#12251207)
If you want to see the true horror of MHEG programming, here's the source for a simple space invaders game in it:

http://digvid.info/mheg5/invade.php

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Re:How Teletext and Ceefax are coming back from the dead by gpvos on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @04:27AM (#12253282)
Do other countries run a similar information service using MHEG or HbbTV (news, weather, sports results, exchange rates, that kind of thing?).
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Re:How Teletext and Ceefax are coming back from the dead by throwawayReply on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @08:22AM (#12254016)
It's also a lot slower than teletext, especially the fasttext / caching teletext TVs.
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