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The news on ther of lost art of teletext. Youtube teletext advert has ceased to work and seemingly can't be removed. Teletext related products should be able to viewed via the below ads if your desperate.
Monday, August 28, 2006
Grumbly, sweary, illiterate news
Firstly some bad news, well sort of. The blog which attempted to take the mantle of defunct teletext chat page backchat, the blog known as "backchat forever" has ended. Different definiton of forever presumably. I only checked the link because apparently some poor soul was searching google for it and came across my dear blog.
One thing I meant to have a look at was the "teletext on your mobile" thing I've been seeing advertised of late. I eventully got round to it today. The link below explains:
http://bango.com/assets/data/pressreleases/58_textview.pdf#search=%22ceefax%2Bmobile%20phone%22
However one wonders how many people will pay £1:50 to see something they can get from imode.ceefax.tv for free. I have checked and it's fully mobile compatiable now. Of course all the teletext services now run instant messaging services where-by they send you expensive alerts about news,sport,weather etc. But is that really teletext? I don't mean to keep you up all night pondering so I'll simply say; no, it's not.
Thats really all their is to say on the matter. Frankly, their isn't much left to say about teletext-there isn't much left on it, so my posts are likley to be irregular and negative in tone. Which is a pity, really-not quite as bad as this one hopefully because I'm tired, in a hurry and genrally pissed. Anyway heres one of the happyist(fuck spelling,just fuck it) images I can imagine.
One thing I meant to have a look at was the "teletext on your mobile" thing I've been seeing advertised of late. I eventully got round to it today. The link below explains:
http://bango.com/assets/data/pressreleases/58_textview.pdf#search=%22ceefax%2Bmobile%20phone%22
However one wonders how many people will pay £1:50 to see something they can get from imode.ceefax.tv for free. I have checked and it's fully mobile compatiable now. Of course all the teletext services now run instant messaging services where-by they send you expensive alerts about news,sport,weather etc. But is that really teletext? I don't mean to keep you up all night pondering so I'll simply say; no, it's not.
Thats really all their is to say on the matter. Frankly, their isn't much left to say about teletext-there isn't much left on it, so my posts are likley to be irregular and negative in tone. Which is a pity, really-not quite as bad as this one hopefully because I'm tired, in a hurry and genrally pissed. Anyway heres one of the happyist(fuck spelling,just fuck it) images I can imagine.
