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Monday, September 24, 2007
33 years on
Yesterday marked the 33rd birthday of Ceefax, and therefore, the 33rd birthday of Teletext itself, Ceefax being the proto-teletext service. So let everyone celebrate. A canandian news release informed me of that funny enough.
Last time I posted a promised an immenient report on Ceefax's rejigged entertainment index. I then didn't post anything for a month, the reason being this was the most utterly banal update your likley to see. Quizes have been merged and theres fewer interviews and features but there is still generally one review for an album/ game/ film. And it's called Entertainment Extra, what it is 'extra' to is left to the readers imganination.
Piece of entertainment page purging from the other channels, quite old news really but just realised I never mentioned it here. Channel Four teletext have removed of their sub-page heavy 'tours and gigs' section along with cinema listings. Admittly trawling through sixty odd sub pages to check if and when your favorite band was playing was far from time efficenent. However, on those long sleepless nights it is suitably hypnotic. The local night out/music pages are, as of a few weeks ago, still there. They are actully quite useful, as it gives the dates and times of smaller places gigs and preformances, listed by city. Although also slow, you'd struggle to find a more concise database of local entertainement all in one place. Most of these should be moved to digital text, but despite promises I've yet to see the tours pages on channel four's digital teletext service.
On "teletext cultural reference watch" (it could be thing, though isn't) the credits for The Most Annoying TV We Love To Hate (sounds shit and it wasn't great) were displayed in a ceefax format. Only partly makes up for their glaring obmission from the programme proper. What is more derided, has a bigger cult/waster following? There probably are examples teletext remains top twenty at least! Even the title allows for it's inclusion, top TV not TV programmes. Perhaps the next pointless list show...
Last time I posted a promised an immenient report on Ceefax's rejigged entertainment index. I then didn't post anything for a month, the reason being this was the most utterly banal update your likley to see. Quizes have been merged and theres fewer interviews and features but there is still generally one review for an album/ game/ film. And it's called Entertainment Extra, what it is 'extra' to is left to the readers imganination.
Piece of entertainment page purging from the other channels, quite old news really but just realised I never mentioned it here. Channel Four teletext have removed of their sub-page heavy 'tours and gigs' section along with cinema listings. Admittly trawling through sixty odd sub pages to check if and when your favorite band was playing was far from time efficenent. However, on those long sleepless nights it is suitably hypnotic. The local night out/music pages are, as of a few weeks ago, still there. They are actully quite useful, as it gives the dates and times of smaller places gigs and preformances, listed by city. Although also slow, you'd struggle to find a more concise database of local entertainement all in one place. Most of these should be moved to digital text, but despite promises I've yet to see the tours pages on channel four's digital teletext service.
On "teletext cultural reference watch" (it could be thing, though isn't) the credits for The Most Annoying TV We Love To Hate (sounds shit and it wasn't great) were displayed in a ceefax format. Only partly makes up for their glaring obmission from the programme proper. What is more derided, has a bigger cult/waster following? There probably are examples teletext remains top twenty at least! Even the title allows for it's inclusion, top TV not TV programmes. Perhaps the next pointless list show...
