Text on Text

Welcome to Text on Text's (or TOT's if your feeling playful) first guest nation feture. Here we will explore the virtues of world teletext. As with most things the USA has been flippant with our beloved teletext though this is mainly because of a techical issue with their televisons. I'm not sure on the techincal jargon but basiccly they have less lines on their screens. This would make teletext even blockier and little information could be stored on each page. But enough about those who aren't here. As well as being near the start of an alphabetical list of countries Armenia is also the first nation to have it's teletext service reviewed by TOT. Pictures of the service follow below. I must mention that I got most of my information of www.teletext.am where you can view nearly all teletext pages on HText.

Company name: Teletext LLC
Brodcast on:Armenian public televison
Lanuched on: Sometime 1998
Teletext name:H-Text
Lanuage: Armenian
Any evil digital text?: Not yet as teletext is still pretty new there and digital TV is not commen

Anything else?: Despite being on public televison there seems to alot of advertising on Htext. The 300's are basicly a text version on the shopping channel. Also although the teletext is not digital there is an interactive element. From 800 to 900 is The Casino where you can bet on text poker and the like. I thought it was just for fun but at one point it asks you to enter your the card number (credit I assume.) Their are around 45 pages of rules which I don't understand as I don't speak Armenian. Other interesting things include a phone book which I contains 45 pages. Most probably for for companies of some sort or goverment services. I also like the female magazine which is far more like a conventional magazine than most text services that claim the tag. It is 34 pages of pure text. No pictures and from what I can tell no sub-pages or links. More on the interactive front, Tetris is also aviable though the Itext I don't quite understand. I believe you ring up and pay for tetris then go to a special inteactive page where you play the game. This level of advancement is surprising considering the basic look of the whole teletex service ie few colours.Overall an interesting text service with alot of good ideas and an interactive element that adds to the fun of anolouge. Oh and if you want a job they need an export manager. Whatever that is.

Should point out all pictures below are not mine but are taken from Armenian Teletext provider Htext run by Teletext LLC.