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The end of Pages from Ceefax

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JA
jamie1992
xwing posted:
This indeed must be the oldest example of Pages from Ceefax on the internet!

I'm thinking it's fake, especially since that most dreaded faker of golden age TV - cwilliams1976 (boo, hiss, spit) - has given it his "blessing".
RO
rob Founding member
xwing posted:
This indeed must be the oldest example of Pages from Ceefax on the internet!

I'm thinking it's fake, especially since that most dreaded faker of golden age TV - cwilliams1976 (boo, hiss, spit) - has given it his "blessing".


It's definately NOT fake. I can guarantee that.
JA
jamie1992
The [BBC] used a different [teletext decoder] during the 1990s fwiw, with smaller text (larger black border around the active picture) and fastext links visible at the bottom.

Correction - the 1990s one had no visible page header nor fastext links. Text/active graphics area was indeed smaller though.
JA
jamie1992
rob posted:
It's definately NOT fake. I can guarantee that.

Well the bit at the end certainly was Smile
MI
Michael
rob posted:
It's definately NOT fake. I can guarantee that.

Well the bit at the end certainly was Smile


Well DUH!
VM
VMPhil
There was a feature on the end of Ceefax on today's edition of Points of View, if anyone's interested.
MA
Markymark
There was a feature on the end of Ceefax on today's edition of Points of View, if anyone's interested.


9 mins in

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01nl7cz/Points_of_View_2012_Episode_16/

Though they didn't really explain it's going because of the final DSO in NI this week

All rather slap dash,
GI
ginnyfan
One question. Why can't BBC1 and BBC2 just have 24 hour schedule, they can play replays of programs during overnight, why do they have to join BBC News and end broadcasting even for very short amount of time sometimes?
JO
johnnyboy Founding member
Sad day.

I remember as a child Pages from Ceefax being shown on both channels for most of the day. I was very excited when BBC1 launched in daytime schedule in 1986.

The red button service IMO has never been as good as Ceefax. The cost implications of running both services in parallel with content sharing wouldn't be that great, I would have thought.
PT
Put The Telly On
rob posted:
It's definately NOT fake. I can guarantee that.

Well the bit at the end certainly was Smile


Well DUH!



Yes, the bit at the end was in widescreen. Laughing
MI
Michael
One question. Why can't BBC1 and BBC2 just have 24 hour schedule, they can play replays of programs during overnight, why do they have to join BBC News and end broadcasting even for very short amount of time sometimes?


You're seriously suggesting that in these cost-cutting days of DQF and commercial channels filling their downtime with teleshopping, casinos and gaming, that the BBC is going to waste repeat fees and royalties on the 3am market?

The only people awake at 3am are people who are working at that time, and as such in a situation where your attention is elsewhere, the traditional accompaniment to late night working (as someone who's done it) is the radio.
DV
dvboy
xwing posted:
This indeed must be the oldest example of Pages from Ceefax on the internet!


Interesting the pages shown then were a lot more random than they are now.

Anyway, the last one's tonight, isn't it, 4:45-6:00?
Last edited by dvboy on 21 October 2012 10:46pm

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