RTE Aertel in Ireland is still going, largely because of a legislative obligation to provide the service. When Virgin Media finishes switching off its analogue service the only people who will still be able to receive the WST service (not to be confused with “Aertel Digital” on Saorview) will be Sky customers who have their digiboxes connected by SCART.
Knowing RTE, their director general is eager to axe Aertel altogether. She has already sounded out the axing of their so called news channel RTE News Now. Instead of taking their news channel and doing a better job on it, they rather close it down. This is what will happen with Aertel.
Aertel's an anachronism anyway - legislative obligation or no legislative obligation.
I fired up my motorised dish and indeed there is teletext on the German channels, even the HD ones. I'd misremembered about it being sent through the HDMI, but the reciever I have does have a built in teletext decoder and it works on there.
Thanks to firing it up I've realised I can use it to record the EastEnders repeats off Drama via a USB drive as well (as because of the Virgin Media mess means I can't record it through the main TV). Will be a faff, but better than nothing.
RTE Aertel in Ireland is still going, largely because of a legislative obligation to provide the service. When Virgin Media finishes switching off its analogue service the only people who will still be able to receive the WST service (not to be confused with “Aertel Digital” on Saorview) will be Sky customers who have their digiboxes connected by SCART.
Knowing RTE, their director general is eager to axe Aertel altogether. She has already sounded out the axing of their so called news channel RTE News Now. Instead of taking their news channel and doing a better job on it, they rather close it down. This is what will happen with Aertel.
They were eager to axe it well before she came along! By all accounts no one is using either version (WST or MHEG-5) any more. For most people it’s just quicker to google things on a smart phone. Another poster called it an anorchism and that’s exactly what it is. I suspect that once VM closes analogue the argument will be made that there is no point continuing with a service that practically no one can receive. But as I say there is the small matter of s114(1)(b) of the Broadcasting Act 2009 which effectively places an obligation on RTE to operate a teletext service and it is very hard to get any legislation through the Irish Parliament at the moment.
In Germany they still have teletext, even on some HD channels, it seems a bit unusual for us to scrap it even though we didn't have to.
Speaking of German television and analogue, some free-to-air German channels were available on Sky, due to the analogue satellite positions being shared with certain German broadcasters. These channels were great for films, music, sport and X-rated programmes. Sky did not officially carry these channels.
Yeah, I remember seeing Digimon on RTL II and noticing how it had a completely different soundtrack to the English version. The German dub had kept the Japanese music, translating the theme song, while the American dub replaced it all.
Yeah, I remember seeing Digimon on RTL II and noticing how it had a completely different soundtrack to the English version. The German dub had kept the Japanese music, translating the theme song, while the American dub replaced it all.
Interesting. What year was it? Did you learn German and/or Japanese from it?
In Germany they still have teletext, even on some HD channels, it seems a bit unusual for us to scrap it even though we didn't have to.
Speaking of German television and analogue, some free-to-air German channels were available on Sky, due to the analogue satellite positions being shared with certain German broadcasters. These channels were great for films, music, sport and X-rated programmes. Sky did not officially carry these channels.
Many people learned German from them.
All of the main FTA broadcasters were on 19.2E. Even the regional PSB channels were on there. Arté used to operate a mono sub-channel in French.
In Germany they still have teletext, even on some HD channels, it seems a bit unusual for us to scrap it even though we didn't have to.
Speaking of German television and analogue, some free-to-air German channels were available on Sky, due to the analogue satellite positions being shared with certain German broadcasters. These channels were great for films, music, sport and X-rated programmes. Sky did not officially carry these channels.
Many people learned German from them.
All of the main FTA broadcasters were on 19.2E. Even the regional PSB channels were on there. Arté used to operate a mono sub-channel in French.
I know that. By the way, are there any digital boxes that have a setting that makes it look like analogue when you're channel surfing?
What on earth are you talking about? And why would anyone want such a feature?
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The German channels were great. I'd started doing German at school, so Nickelodeon Germany complete with Rugrats in German, was fantastic for helping me learn German early on.
I also was introduced to Mann-O-Mann before Action Time launched the Chris Tarrant led UK version a few years later. There was also a German version of Don't Forget Your Toothbrush and the brilliant Tutti Fruti.
As for the late night stuff, the fact it was in German didn't exactly matter.
