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Monday, November 21, 2005
Bandwagon
My last post was about pages being cut from Teletext's(company) teletext service. Well no this one. This is about Ceefax cutting a substanial number of pages from it's entertainment service. It's reorganizing though, not revamping, so it's not just mindlessly doing something to appear on the ball.
The most noticable things being changed is probably(because I like them) the three letter/comment page things being merged. Previously we had Chatterbox(TV bitchin'),The Vibe(Music whinin') and Backchat(adolescent talk and odd older people); now, or at least as of the 28th of November, we will have Have Your Say. An all purpose comments page for entertainment. The loss of these pages themselves doesn't amount to much but it does make Ceefax less of an interesting magazine with charcater and more of a bland yellow information service.
The reviewing is also being cut back on. I don't often read the film ones but it is noticable in the music reviews that they are actully unique with0in the BBC. There not copied from the internet or the digital service. Anyway single reviews are gone, album reviews are cut back, as are film reviews.
Those aside the genral vibe(it's nearly a pun) is to cut back on quizzes, comments, reviews and previews. Basicly anything which could dare raise a smile or indeed interest. Have a look at Ceefax explaining it in their own words. If you can't you can see them below, hopefully. If I'm going to whine about something even less important than the removal of a few teletext pages it's the fact that irritating sub-pages are added all over the place. Grr.
Main entertainment page sub-page on the "reorganizing". Good genral overview.
The music explanation. No Vibe? What am I paying my liscene fee for?
And the end of Backchat.Oh and other stuff. Theres an early post where I eulgoise about Backchat. It's really not that good but it is an exuse to laugh at others stupidy and problems.
That concludes the gallery section. The one thing that really worries me is the teletext services tedency to copy each others revamps and reorgs. I mean a Ceefax style cut back on the Teletext channels (ITV+C4) would mean an end, or sevre cutbacks, crappening if you will, of planent sound, Mega-Zine, Bamboozle and that TV thing. Not to mention those polls compleated by neo-conversative pensioners!
Bamber at least should be safe. He's evn crossed over to digital text. Or rather the game has. Unfortunitly digitext can't support our host. Or even an interactive-press the button to anwser the question interface.Ametuers.
The most noticable things being changed is probably(because I like them) the three letter/comment page things being merged. Previously we had Chatterbox(TV bitchin'),The Vibe(Music whinin') and Backchat(adolescent talk and odd older people); now, or at least as of the 28th of November, we will have Have Your Say. An all purpose comments page for entertainment. The loss of these pages themselves doesn't amount to much but it does make Ceefax less of an interesting magazine with charcater and more of a bland yellow information service.
The reviewing is also being cut back on. I don't often read the film ones but it is noticable in the music reviews that they are actully unique with0in the BBC. There not copied from the internet or the digital service. Anyway single reviews are gone, album reviews are cut back, as are film reviews.
Those aside the genral vibe(it's nearly a pun) is to cut back on quizzes, comments, reviews and previews. Basicly anything which could dare raise a smile or indeed interest. Have a look at Ceefax explaining it in their own words. If you can't you can see them below, hopefully. If I'm going to whine about something even less important than the removal of a few teletext pages it's the fact that irritating sub-pages are added all over the place. Grr.
Main entertainment page sub-page on the "reorganizing". Good genral overview.
The music explanation. No Vibe? What am I paying my liscene fee for?
And the end of Backchat.Oh and other stuff. Theres an early post where I eulgoise about Backchat. It's really not that good but it is an exuse to laugh at others stupidy and problems.
That concludes the gallery section. The one thing that really worries me is the teletext services tedency to copy each others revamps and reorgs. I mean a Ceefax style cut back on the Teletext channels (ITV+C4) would mean an end, or sevre cutbacks, crappening if you will, of planent sound, Mega-Zine, Bamboozle and that TV thing. Not to mention those polls compleated by neo-conversative pensioners!
Bamber at least should be safe. He's evn crossed over to digital text. Or rather the game has. Unfortunitly digitext can't support our host. Or even an interactive-press the button to anwser the question interface.Ametuers.
