Text on Text

I can't call this post anything else because theres little news in the world of teletext. I mean at present, but it's also true as genral statement. I happened to have lost my TV remote, which doesn't help as I can't access teletext without it. I'll see if I can get access to someone else tomorrow and have a good look through though.

I added a new link. This ones to statistics about teletext from a remote part of teletext's website. Essentialy it seems to be trying to sell it's service to advertisers but some of the stats are quite interesting. Who knew that more people watch teletext in a week than eat mars bars? One of many gems. 18 million people a week use Teletext by the way. And thats only the company Teletext, eg doesn't include Ceefax. And thats alredy over 1/4 of the population.

Slightly old news here, it's another statement from our favorite government waste of money since the millinium dome, SwichCo. The statement was actually issued over a year ago. It asks for a full review of teletext services in this new media age(Their words.) I'd love to hear one from SwichCo, just to laugh at the pretenious lanuage but alas,we'll probably never see it.

Also on Googlings(I wonder if I can copyright that?) looking for news I came across a 65 page report on the recent digital swichover trail in, eh, somewhere. Unfoutunitly it's not loading very well on my computer and it's 65 pages long so it probably won't get read. But I'll post a link to it so anyone with a super computer and too much time on their hands can read it. I have manged to read a little. By searching Ceefax rather than Teletext you avoid all the tedious guff about the coperate company ceefax. I advise everyone to read as it's oddly humorous but I'll try to shorten it down. Fears about loss of Ceefax and Teletext largly unfounded. Many households complained that their is less information(correctly.) We attrubite this to them forgetting to press the down button.That sentence is genuine. Theres stupid people involved in this trail somewhere, though I'm not sure which side.

Well I may have to check out new remotes tomorrow as I've no idea where mine's got to and I'm missing my teletext. I'm off to bed, though I may call in on Ceefax.tv on the way.