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Scottish switchover

(June 2011)

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Inspector Sands
Markymark posted:
a516 posted:

So the last words uttered on BBC analogue TV transmission in Scotland were from Jeremy Clarkson !

I think I've said this before but they really should have a competition, maybe in aid of Children in Need, to be the last person on UK analogue TV.
AB
aberdeenboy
Very surprised nobody else spotted the visual sequence which ran on the breakfast and 1.30pm editions of Reporting Scotland on Wednesday to mark the end of BBC1 analogue. I didn't record it and I don't think it's on Youtube.

It started with a close up of the COW globe which shrank and mixed into the orange and blue noddy which in turn shrank into the original BBC1 Colour globe. I assume this was all put together by the newsroom staff in the absence of anything special by presentation. (Incidentally it was the network globes in every case - not BBC Scotland's.)

9 days later

DV
dvboy
Markymark posted:
dvboy posted:
WillPS posted:

Ceefax is still carried on DSat too, though I really doubt it's used very often.


It's not a full service, is it?

Only P888 subtitles, and a limited range of pages for viewers in the Benelux countries watching BBC 1 and 2 on cable networks. I think the pages are only carried on BBC 1 London and BBC 2 England D-Sat streams. P888 is on all regions and nations, but not BBC 3, 4, or N24 ?



Having just checked, BBC News has just pages 100 and 888 now, BBC1 and BBC 2 carry just 888.

Channel 4 still has a teletext service on DSat.
VM
VMPhil
Teletext also used to work with my Telewest/Virgin Media box through SCART, useful for subtitles before the digital subtitle function worked on all channels.
IS
Inspector Sands
VirginMediaPhil posted:
Teletext also used to work with my Telewest/Virgin Media box through SCART, useful for subtitles before the digital subtitle function worked on all channels.

Until very recently Virgin put full teletext services onto their channels, including BBC/ITV/C4/5
WP
WillPS
Inspector Sands posted:
VirginMediaPhil posted:
Teletext also used to work with my Telewest/Virgin Media box through SCART, useful for subtitles before the digital subtitle function worked on all channels.

Until very recently Virgin put full teletext services onto their channels, including BBC/ITV/C4/5

Did this happen on the NTL side of the network too? Only I remember trying without success when we got VM Digital TV in 2007.
IS
Inspector Sands
WillPS posted:
Did this happen on the NTL side of the network too? Only I remember trying without success when we got VM Digital TV in 2007.

Possibly not, I'm ex-Telewest
RE
remlap
Hi Steve D, thanks for your excellent write up, was there any reason why the globe went out in black and white?

Cheers

14 days later

IS
Inspector Sands
A follow up to above, here is what the BBC World teletext service looks like now:
Page 100
*
'TV Today' (note they're 3 days out of date)
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Reception Info
*

The 'BBC News' pages look like duplicates of the Ceefax ones.

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