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Bye Bye BBC Teletext service

  • 16-09-2019 7:18pm
    #1
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭


    To go 2020

    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/sep/16/bbc-to-switch-off-red-button-2020
    The BBC is to switch off its Red Button teletext service from the start of next year, the broadcaster has confirmed.

    Ceefax, the BBC’s analogue teletext service, finished in October 2012 with the switchover to digital. It was replaced by BBC Red Button, which allowed viewers to read news and sports content on their TVs.

    A spokesperson said the service would be stopped in early 2020 as the broadcaster needed to channel resources into “even better internet-based services”.

    The closure of the service marks the end of the BBC’s teletext, 45 years after it began as Ceefax – a phonetic take on “see facts” – in 1974.

    I can't recall the last time I actually accessed it which I suppose tells the tale.


Comments

  • #2
    swoofer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭swoofer


    I use it every day and have done for years. It will be missed and a backwards step.


  • #3
    dulpit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,390 ✭✭✭✭dulpit


    I just found the red button icon that popped up annoying and made me hit the backup button quickly...


  • #4
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    On Freesat it takes an annoyingly long time for the RB icon to appear, during that pause the EPG doesn't work.


  • #5
    delly
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 7,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭delly


    You couldn't beat channel 4's text service. The bamboozle quiz was a marvel of interactive entertainment.


  • #6
    SPDUB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭SPDUB


    I see RTE have shut down their online link to Digital Aertal

    If you go to this page now

    https://www.rte.ie/aertel

    it has main page numbers but just links to the relevant RTE.ie page


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  • #7
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,852 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    SPDUB wrote: »
    I see RTE have shut down their online link to Digital Aertal

    If you go to this page now

    https://www.rte.ie/aertel

    it has main page numbers but just links to the relevant RTE.ie page

    The 2rn website still links to Aertel p.169 - this "Page Not Found". Not available on the link posted previously.


  • #8
    SPDUB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭SPDUB


    It seems RAI don't have the "old is bad" attitude of RTE and BBC

    https://twitter.com/Radiojottings/status/1173175213212782593


  • #9
    lertsnim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,841 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    SPDUB wrote: »
    It seems RAI don't have the "old is bad" attitude of RTE and BBC

    https://twitter.com/Radiojottings/status/1173175213212782593

    Most of Europe still have teletext services.


  • #10
    byte
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,159 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    lertsnim wrote: »
    Most of Europe still have teletext services.
    Damn right they are too, nothing wrong with them.

    I was never a fan of the "digital text" services though.


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