Why Can't They Do A Version Of It On The Digital Signal?
Because the Digital Text service on the Red Button is woeful.
All you need from a text service is information. It doesn't need to be fancy or pretty. Just like it was on Ceefax, not beyond them surely? I miss pages 301, 302, 312-which became 323, 338 for the transfer gossip (now on BBC website though) plus 145 for the letters, 160 for regional news, 390 for regional sport etc etc...and as for watching the latest scores come in on page 313 onwards, well...if the page count was 3/3 and it suddenly became 3/4 it meant there had been some goals and the tension in wondering if it was us, well...
Posted By: Martin Peters on October 23rd 2012 at 09:12:45
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- RIP CEEFAX (General Chat) - Cart Gap Disco, Oct 23, 08:52:18
- In the long distant past I used to programme pages for Prestel... anyone (General Chat) - Pixelman, Oct 23, 11:55:47
- page 390 has a lot to answer for (General Chat) - pat_abb, Oct 23, 10:33:39
- Why Can't They Do A Version Of It On The Digital Signal? (General Chat) - Martin Peters, Oct 23, 09:12:45
- the bit about the page count increasing on latest scores... (General Chat) - VeryMuchDiss, Oct 23, 09:41:30
- .............. (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Oct 23, 09:10:50
- a sad day (n/m) (General Chat) - dr fanta, Oct 23, 08:56:18
- Yup, seconded. (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Oct 23, 08:55:31
- I found out we'd signed Neil Fenn on loan from page 312 (General Chat) - Trent_Canary, Oct 23, 08:54:53
- P 312 started as one page each day (General Chat) - KentonCanary, Oct 23, 08:57:24
- Ha. Yes. (n/m) (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Oct 23, 09:00:48
- (and you'd get distracted and miss one, and so have to watch the whole lot go round again (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Oct 23, 09:01:36
- I'd press the "hold" button to make sure I read the news (General Chat) - KentonCanary, Oct 23, 09:09:59
- (and you'd get distracted and miss one, and so have to watch the whole lot go round again (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Oct 23, 09:01:36
- Ha. Yes. (n/m) (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Oct 23, 09:00:48
- I remember seeing we'd signed Efan Ekoku, very late at night on deadline day, on Ceefax. (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Oct 23, 08:57:01
- P 312 started as one page each day (General Chat) - KentonCanary, Oct 23, 08:57:24
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