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Following on from the talk of the recovered Teletext pages on the TV Whirl topic, I thought I'd start a new one talking about the many recoveries that have been put online this past year, which as far as I can see seems to have gone unnoticed by TVF.
This past year a group of teletext enthusiast software developers and former teletext engineers have been working on software to recover teletext from Standard Play VHS tapes, by trying to interpret the lower resolution VBI in the same way barcode reading software scans images, and comparing the multiple copies of the page to guess where the errors are and correct them. Transdiffusion ran a story on it at the start of the year: https://www.transdiffusion.org/2016/01/07/teletext-time-travel
One of the developers has built up a large collection of recoveries he's made at: http://www.uniquecodeanddata.co.uk/teletext76/
There's also a collection from another of the developers at: http://al.robotfuzz.com/~al/teletext/
There's lots of the complete Ceefax, Oracle and Teletext from multiple dates over the years to be explored again.
For the really geeky among you, they've even developed software to get the Raspberry Pi to output teletext data on to the VBI on it's composite output, which you can find at https://github.com/peterkvt80/vbit2/wiki. It comes with a complete copy of ITV Teletext to explore on your TV just like the good old days, as well as their own Teletext service that they've been developing for fun.
This past year a group of teletext enthusiast software developers and former teletext engineers have been working on software to recover teletext from Standard Play VHS tapes, by trying to interpret the lower resolution VBI in the same way barcode reading software scans images, and comparing the multiple copies of the page to guess where the errors are and correct them. Transdiffusion ran a story on it at the start of the year: https://www.transdiffusion.org/2016/01/07/teletext-time-travel
One of the developers has built up a large collection of recoveries he's made at: http://www.uniquecodeanddata.co.uk/teletext76/
There's also a collection from another of the developers at: http://al.robotfuzz.com/~al/teletext/
There's lots of the complete Ceefax, Oracle and Teletext from multiple dates over the years to be explored again.
For the really geeky among you, they've even developed software to get the Raspberry Pi to output teletext data on to the VBI on it's composite output, which you can find at https://github.com/peterkvt80/vbit2/wiki. It comes with a complete copy of ITV Teletext to explore on your TV just like the good old days, as well as their own Teletext service that they've been developing for fun.