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Sunday, February 06, 2005
Numbers and attitudes
One of my favorite things about teletext is the number system it operates. The beautiful well thought out posistions. On BBC1 the letters page is 145 on ITV 346. The polls are placed beside the letters so people looking for a barometer of opinion are in the correct place. On BBC the now sadly defunct And I quote page was also beside the papers page. Their is the opinions of the establishment.
Each text service also seems to try to reflect the channel it inhabits. Ceefax is vast,fast, diverse and informative. ITV teletext is flashy, colourful and selective over what it covers. C4 Teletext is quirky, alternative, doesn't have a proper news or sport section but covers music,films and computer games in great detail and is full of games and subtle humour. Whats my favorite? It depends. If I want information on something Ceefax. If I'm bored or can't sleep C4 Text because of it's iclusive magazine feel. I only really read ITV text when I want to read a poll or letters or sometimes sport. PText on paramount was excellent though I can no longer access it as my TV refuses to let me read anolouge text on Sky simply blaring "NO TEXT" in a red box. The mailbox was the only compleatly pointless letters page that resembled an internet message board. I beleive it is now defunct which is a pity. The only other example of a "teletext club" seems to be the deadfully named "Mega-Zine" page 382 on C4 text. Not near Mailbox standard for utter gibberish postings but pretty damm good and doesn't have the snobbish attuitude problem of internet fourm "regulars" cough: LOSERS:cough.
That was more a quick summupence of my love for text than anything else but I promise my next post will chronicle the happenings in the world of text.
Text feature of the day:
Ten things we didn't know last week.-BBC ONE and TWO, p129- A study of ten of the weeks stranger news items. Always interesting, sometimes dubious and occasionly amazing.
Each text service also seems to try to reflect the channel it inhabits. Ceefax is vast,fast, diverse and informative. ITV teletext is flashy, colourful and selective over what it covers. C4 Teletext is quirky, alternative, doesn't have a proper news or sport section but covers music,films and computer games in great detail and is full of games and subtle humour. Whats my favorite? It depends. If I want information on something Ceefax. If I'm bored or can't sleep C4 Text because of it's iclusive magazine feel. I only really read ITV text when I want to read a poll or letters or sometimes sport. PText on paramount was excellent though I can no longer access it as my TV refuses to let me read anolouge text on Sky simply blaring "NO TEXT" in a red box. The mailbox was the only compleatly pointless letters page that resembled an internet message board. I beleive it is now defunct which is a pity. The only other example of a "teletext club" seems to be the deadfully named "Mega-Zine" page 382 on C4 text. Not near Mailbox standard for utter gibberish postings but pretty damm good and doesn't have the snobbish attuitude problem of internet fourm "regulars" cough: LOSERS:cough.
That was more a quick summupence of my love for text than anything else but I promise my next post will chronicle the happenings in the world of text.
Text feature of the day:
Ten things we didn't know last week.-BBC ONE and TWO, p129- A study of ten of the weeks stranger news items. Always interesting, sometimes dubious and occasionly amazing.
