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Re:Teletext on a BBC Computer in 2024 by jayflux on Monday January 29, 2024 @05:50AM (#39174912)
They’re not the same and I don’t think they’ve ever been synonymous with each other (or at least not by people who work in the Broadcasting industry).

Red Button is the service that replaced teletext/ceefax in 2012. Teletext was an analogue service, Red button was a whole new digital service offering similar information, it’s entirely different infrastructure underneath, it’s not just a “lick of paint”.

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Re:Teletext on a BBC Computer in 2024 by PodgieTar on Monday January 29, 2024 @06:10AM (#39175025)
You're right. My bad. I worked on a modernisation project for the DVB version of this in 2018. Internally we used to refer to it as Teletext, hence my confusion.
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Re:Teletext on a BBC Computer in 2024 by 15457345234 on Monday January 29, 2024 @09:36AM (#39176708)
> Teletext was an analogue service

Teletext was a _digital_ service provided over an _analogue_ bearer - the modulation of the signal is continuous, not discrete.

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