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Why is it so slow?

 

 

There's nothing wrong with the technology. It depends on how well equipped the TV is to take it.

 

I have an old 28" Phillips widescreen TV, which I bought over a rival set, back in 2000 because, while everything else was equal, it had superior teletext capabilities. Basically, once you selected teletext, it loaded every page you could immediately go to, while you were reading the current page. It had a 1000 page capacity. Flicking to the next page, or any other was a doddle and took a spilt second. Still does, if I choose to watch analogue TV.

 

Presumably, there is a digital set out there capable of the same performance.

 

Now, did I over-elaborate that..? ;)

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There's nothing wrong with the technology. It depends on how well equipped the TV is to take it.

 

I have an old 28" Phillips widescreen TV, which I bought over a rival set, back in 2000 because, while everything else was equal, it had superior teletext capabilities. Basically, once you selected teletext, it loaded every page you could immediately go to, while you were reading the current page. It had a 1000 page capacity. Flicking to the next page, or any other was a doddle and took a spilt second. Still does, if I choose to watch analogue TV.

 

Presumably, there is a digital set out there capable of the same performance.

 

Now, did I over-elaborate that..? ;)

 

Teletext geek.

 

 

I used to love teletext andwould have gladly based a purchase on whether you could display a teletext screen in the corner whilst watching normal telly.

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i used to love it too. but i tried to check my lottery numbers last night on sky text (85% signal, Sony Bravia 32" LCD 1080p) and it took about 5mins to load each page.

 

Considering the Sky box is attached to the phone line, surely there could be some use of this with teletext?

 

This thread seems a tad lounge like now.....

 

and StL, yes you did and you know you did!

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i used to love it too. but i tried to check my lottery numbers last night on sky text (85% signal, Sony Bravia 32" LCD 1080p) and it took about 5mins to load each page.

 

Considering the Sky box is attached to the phone line, surely there could be some use of this with teletext?

 

This thread seems a tad lounge like now.....

 

and StL, yes you did and you know you did!

 

Lol.

 

Al, my old Phillips can do what you ask too.

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There's nothing wrong with the technology. It depends on how well equipped the TV is to take it.

 

I have an old 28" Phillips widescreen TV, which I bought over a rival set, back in 2000 because, while everything else was equal, it had superior teletext capabilities. Basically, once you selected teletext, it loaded every page you could immediately go to, while you were reading the current page. It had a 1000 page capacity. Flicking to the next page, or any other was a doddle and took a spilt second. Still does, if I choose to watch analogue TV.

 

Presumably, there is a digital set out there capable of the same performance.

 

Now, did I over-elaborate that..? ;)

 

Yes.

 

You could have said :

 

"I have a teletext tv that's well quick innit"

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I would dare to say that the TV you own is now obsolete anyway, so if anyone did become the wiser, they would not be able to act upon their new found knowledge ;)

 

That's true. But at least St Stevo now knows that the technology is fine, but his TV is sh!te, teletext wise.

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Is it just my imagination, or did you used to be able to get porn on teletext? I remember looking for the footy results on there once and feeling really guilty because "I went to the wrong page" and there was a black, yellow and blue pixelated picture of a girl with boobs.

 

I would have had a quick fiddle, but I don't think I'd reached puberty yet. My mum was also sat next to me.

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I used to have an old Sony Trinitron telly which I became quite attached to. I had to take it to the repair shop once because "someone" put a magnet on the screen and it went all weird and needed realigning or something. Anyway the repair man who took it out of my car said it was the heaviest telly he'd ever lifted. He'd worked there for twelve years. A rare moment of pride that.

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