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Friday, April 15, 2005
News,views and nothing more besides. Maybe lies.
Remember world teletext day is only three days away. Some people may notice that the date has changed some what since I made it up. Thats because I forgot about about it. I can't really say anything else about it. I'm going to try to include a teletext news section in every blog. I have news alerts sent to whenever teletext is mentioned in the news. Their have been alot more results than I imangined. One every other day so far. First below.
Teletext News:
The not-so-creativly named SwitchCo has been created to oversee the end of terrestial televison and therefore of the pure analouge teletext. The company Teletext( even less creativly named) are accully involved in the project. As are all the major channels in the UK as well as televison manufacturs. Apparently the current figures stand at 60% of homes with digital and 40 without. There are apparently a hardcore of digital refusniks( their words, not mine) who will never change.
It's unfortunate that so little focus will be on Teletexts demise when the last analouge signal is turned off. Even when Ceefax celebrated it's 30th birthday their where simply a couple of items near the end of the news and one page on the BBC website. Aside from it's pragmatic capabilitiys and great creative poetinal that is one of the things I love about teletext. Even in my earliest memories of teletext it seemed dated and doomed. It's been neglected by it's parents(at least in this country and many others) who have found more pleasue in launching crap TV channels(BBC, well Teletext too) or flogging the rotting carcas of the Holidays section on every medium possible. Watch out for the blimps and hyponotists next. Anyway it's the ultimate tradgy story. The once much loved and appricated service has slid into obscuity and will more likley die with a very drawn out wimper. It's the sort of gulity pleasure we get from seeing formerly all-conquoring movie stars reduced to opening supermarkets or making cameos in cartoons.
I relise that that was nore my own opinion on teletext than any kind of news but it's important to explain why I bother writing this. I hoping to make someone give their own opinion of teletext every week in a coloum like thing. Only a few of my friends have opinions about teletext though so I may have to start to harass people on the internet.
Teletext feature of the day-planet sound-350 channel four teletext
Comprehensive music news for all types of music. Their opinions section The Void is also one of the only places people discuss music intelligently. Oasis esspecially are treated with more than a few hackyned cliches while they briefly stop referring to Pete Docherty as Junkie Rocker as he has been crisented by the press. And sometimes kings of bland Thom York and Matt Bleamlly are not treated as the saviours of something or other.
Teletext News:
The not-so-creativly named SwitchCo has been created to oversee the end of terrestial televison and therefore of the pure analouge teletext. The company Teletext( even less creativly named) are accully involved in the project. As are all the major channels in the UK as well as televison manufacturs. Apparently the current figures stand at 60% of homes with digital and 40 without. There are apparently a hardcore of digital refusniks( their words, not mine) who will never change.
It's unfortunate that so little focus will be on Teletexts demise when the last analouge signal is turned off. Even when Ceefax celebrated it's 30th birthday their where simply a couple of items near the end of the news and one page on the BBC website. Aside from it's pragmatic capabilitiys and great creative poetinal that is one of the things I love about teletext. Even in my earliest memories of teletext it seemed dated and doomed. It's been neglected by it's parents(at least in this country and many others) who have found more pleasue in launching crap TV channels(BBC, well Teletext too) or flogging the rotting carcas of the Holidays section on every medium possible. Watch out for the blimps and hyponotists next. Anyway it's the ultimate tradgy story. The once much loved and appricated service has slid into obscuity and will more likley die with a very drawn out wimper. It's the sort of gulity pleasure we get from seeing formerly all-conquoring movie stars reduced to opening supermarkets or making cameos in cartoons.
I relise that that was nore my own opinion on teletext than any kind of news but it's important to explain why I bother writing this. I hoping to make someone give their own opinion of teletext every week in a coloum like thing. Only a few of my friends have opinions about teletext though so I may have to start to harass people on the internet.
Teletext feature of the day-planet sound-350 channel four teletext
Comprehensive music news for all types of music. Their opinions section The Void is also one of the only places people discuss music intelligently. Oasis esspecially are treated with more than a few hackyned cliches while they briefly stop referring to Pete Docherty as Junkie Rocker as he has been crisented by the press. And sometimes kings of bland Thom York and Matt Bleamlly are not treated as the saviours of something or other.
