Teletext on UPC

_Whimsical_

So other people have it?

Mine is missing completely on our tvs , its on no channel. Someone in my house is particularly desperate for Sky News text. Should it be part of the package?

Thanks to anyone who answers.

celticbest

Some stations still have it like BBC2, RTE1.

Kristopherus

celticbest wrote: »

Some stations still have it like BBC2, RTE1.

Plus RTE 2, TV 3 and TG 4. You will not get it on Sky's own channels, Sky News & Sky Sports. And the red button will not work either if you have those Sky channels via UPC:(

icdg

Kristopherus wrote: »

Plus RTE 2, TV 3 and TG 4. You will not get it on Sky's own channels, Sky News & Sky Sports. And the red button will not work either if you have those Sky channels via UPC:(

If you have analogue UPC, you can still get the last remanants of Skytext on analogue Sky News. Very little of the service left though. Think this may only apply to ex-NTL areas however.

Teletext as we know it is being phased out in the UK. Teletext Limited is mostly gone (or is supposed to be, at any rate). When the last UK region completes digital switch-over Ceefax will be closed too. It is red button services that are the future for this.

Kristopherus

ICDG, No analogue. I have digital via mmds.

celticbest

icdg wrote: »

It is red button services that are the future for this.

Does anyone have any idea if UPC intend to introduce Red Button services on there Digital Platform ??

Kensington

celticbest wrote: »

Does anyone have any idea if UPC intend to introduce Red Button services on there Digital Platform ??

There are interactive application on EuroNews and the Info Channel (Ch 100?).

Sky only develop interactive for their own platform (Open TV). Although they are rumoured to be porting over Sky Sports Active to the Liberate middleware for Virgin Media in the UK...
BBC have no interest in developing or supporting interactive on a foreign platform.
RTÉ don't have any red button interactive services (yet)

icdg

celticbest wrote: »

Does anyone have any idea if UPC intend to introduce Red Button services on there Digital Platform ??

Euronews and the Info Channel both have red button services (although the one on the Info Channel merely seems to trigger part of the EPG). The one on Euronews is useful as proof-of-concept.

You're unlikely to see any further red button services on UPC in the near future. They have to be developed specially for the platform you see, so the BBC and Sky, who are the big users of the red button, are unlikely to do so (the BBC because it would entail use of licence payers money, and Sky because they probably just can't see the point commercially speaking, and because lack of red button on UPC gives Sky's platform a commercial advantage). So unless RTÉ develops one in the distant future I can't see it happening.

Bazzer2

The remaining analogue version of Ceefax disappeared this week from UPC's feed of BBC2 in Dublin.

Koloman

Bazzer2 wrote: »

The remaining analogue version of Ceefax disappeared this week from UPC's feed of BBC2 in Dublin.

That's true. Ceefax is completely gone from my analogue.

oneweb

I was wondering the same and mentioned it to mam who said she'd noticed it too.

Checked the telly and there's no text available on BBC1, BBC2, UTV, Channel 4 and others

Freddie59

oneweb wrote: »

I was wondering the same and mentioned it to mam who said she'd noticed it too.

Checked the telly and there's no text available on BBC1, BBC2, UTV, Channel 4 and others

Racing text still available on Channel 4.

BrianD3

The ITV/C4 teletext service effectively closed (apart from a very limited service) around this time last year.

I have UPC digital and have been without Ceefax for around a week now, if it's gone for good many people including myself will miss it. I have been using it several times a day every day for 20 years. It has been around since the mid seventies and in my view is still useful even in the internet era.

icdg

BrianD3 wrote: »

The ITV/C4 teletext service effectively closed (apart from a very limited service) around this time last year.

That limited service shouldn't even be there, Ofcom terminated Teletext Limited's broadcasting licence back in January and have since hit them with a fine. The issue, you see, is that Teletext Limited won an auction back in 1991 for a public teletext licence that including a news service. By cutting the service back to its bare commercial features Teletext were in breach of that licence. In the old days of the IBA, the heavies would have been sent to the transmitters to literaly "pull the plug" out, but Ofcom doesn't own the transmitters any more (they were spun off as the original incarnation of NTL in 1991) so they can't actually force Teletext to stop broadcasting (other than by taking legal action which they don't seem to have got around to yet).

Back to topic, and yes Ceefax appears to be gone from BBC NI on UPC. It was gone a while back before and re-appeared though. BBC Ceefax won't (or isn't supposed to) close down for another two years though.

pricewise987

My Dad has always used UPC Teletext to get news/racing results/football scores etc...

He does not use the internet or any mobile device....

Ceefax is gone.......

Will the RTE teletext be gone from UPC next year?

What is the alternative for someone still living in the 20th century.....:)

icdg

We don't drag up old threads. RTÉ have no plans at present to close RTÉ Aertel.