RTE Teletext

mobpd

hi
i am a subscriber to Sky's family package - and recently seem to have lost access to RTE's (basic!) teletext service (by pressing the TV and then Text button - wasnt the best service but useful at times. Anyone suggest what might have happened - has it disappeared off from SKy Digital? also seem to have lost the ability to get the digital subtitles on all channels.....

cheers
mobpd

irishgeo

reboot your box by plugging it out of the wall for a few minutes and turn it back on. Teletext seems to disappear a lot on my digibox for some reason.

Anyone hear anything about the Digital teletext RTE are supposed to launch?

Chonaic

try just pressing text on the tv remote.

radiospan

I haven't had RTE Text through Sky for months now. I though nobody had it?

I had to switch over to the aerial whenever I wanted Aertel. I'll try plugging out my Sky box.

Creamy Goodness

it's the same with me but once i reboot the box it's okay for about three days or so then i have to reboot again

eirebhoy

plazzTT wrote:

I haven't had RTE Text through Sky for months now. I though nobody had it?

Its OK for me.

ZENER

The teletext data is contained in the field blanking period of the off air signal and is normally extracted from the video signal just after the I.F. stages in a normal TV. The TV signal you are getting from the Sky box is recovered from a compressed stream derived from a component or RGB signal without the required blanking signals hence no text.

ZEN

ZENER

How are you accessing the teletext pages eireboy. Is it on the TV remotes Text button or the Sky remote text button ?

ZEN

dmeehan

this used to always happen with my grundig box, had to pull the plug on it every few weeks to get the text back

Tony

mobpd wrote:

hi
i am a subscriber to Sky's family package - and recently seem to have lost access to RTE's (basic!) teletext service (by pressing the TV and then Text button - wasnt the best service but useful at times. Anyone suggest what might have happened - has it disappeared off from SKy Digital? also seem to have lost the ability to get the digital subtitles on all channels.....

cheers
mobpd

RTE teletext is accessed from the Tv signal so its really nothing to do with the box, its most likely your remote is no longer programmed for the Tv so try reprogramming it, you can use the intercative button to get technical help on this

DigiDec

This is a known fault with Grundis digiboxes,
how many of the people here have Grundigs???
bet its you all

Doodah7

Yes I have a Grundig digibox and if I leave it plugged in for any length of time, RTE teletext disappears. Plugging the box out for 10 seconds and rebooting does the trick for a while at least. Incidentally, I use the Sky remote (TV then text buttons) to access RTE's teletext.

DigiDec

Its the same for me, get the text for a couple of days then it goes and I need to unplug the box to get it back, Grundig refused to accept the problem was with their digibox

Hagar

I have a Panasonic box and have no teletext issues.

Mossy Monk

i currently use a Grundig and no teletext issues at all with it

irishgeo

grundig = my problem

Richard

Tony wrote:

RTE teletext is accessed from the Tv signal so its really nothing to do with the box, its most likely your remote is no longer programmed for the Tv so try reprogramming it, you can use the intercative button to get technical help on this

Not really, the 'analogue' teletext information is not transmitted as part of the TV picture on digital services. It is sent separately as part of the data stream and the box is supposed to add it back to the picture that is sent to the TV. If this doesn't happen properly, then you lose 'analogue' teletext.

There are two reasons I can think of for this happening - firstly, encoding a picture which includes the teletext information digitally is likely to produce errors in the text, due to lossy compression - secondly, if the tv is sent a letterbox or centre cut-out picture, the teletext information would either be in the wrong place, or partly missing.

Tony

Richard wrote:

Not really, the 'analogue' teletext information is not transmitted as part of the TV picture on digital services. It is sent separately as part of the data stream and the box is supposed to add it back to the picture that is sent to the TV. If this doesn't happen properly, then you lose 'analogue' teletext.

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Sounds reasonable, most often though I've seen this problem occuring when the remote lost its tv code

eigrod

Mine's a Grundig box and has been happening me for the past 2 years.

Re-boot the box and it comes back....can last an hour or a week....one never knows.