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The Rise and Fall of Teletext

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While teletext never existed in some countries and has been outdated in others years ago, it is still popular in many places today and it is a fascinating example of a technology that, despite groundbreaking changes in other areas of media consumption, has remained this unchanged zombie from a different time. This is the story of teletext, covering how the BBC started developing Ceefax, how Teletext technology works and how the switch-over from analog to digital has disrupted this technology.

Keywords: Ceefax, Teletext, BBC, Tech, Retro, Technology, Television, Analog, VHS, Digital, British, United Kingdom, TV, Pixel, Videotext

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31 comments

@degenerate0 March 21, 2025 - 7:44 pm
small note at 10:24 the text appears to be in serbo-croatian, you probably mixed up nova text and nova
@vijai3 March 21, 2025 - 7:44 pm
Did you know liars, cheaters, manipulators, homosexuals always wins???
@psyopticprodigy2427 March 21, 2025 - 7:44 pm
Still never forget bamboozle on teletext or there was one when I was a kid where you could send in a picture you drew and they would put it on teletext. Got a drawing of batman on once.
@jovanjovan225 March 21, 2025 - 7:44 pm
It's like browsing on Atari 2600 🙂
@S1nwar March 21, 2025 - 7:44 pm
12:01 "HD ready" is a scam refering to 720p
@S1nwar March 21, 2025 - 7:44 pm
so thats why The Simpsons never had a single teletext based joke but plenty ones of weird telephone numbers with letters in them
@S1nwar March 21, 2025 - 7:44 pm
god is this guy talking slowly 1.25x
@RexRex-n5t March 21, 2025 - 7:44 pm
I used to turn this on by mistake as a kid and got scared. I didn't know Americans didn't use this. Often surprised when Americans arbitrarily don't do/have stuff like every European does/has.
@GoranTratnik March 21, 2025 - 7:44 pm
It still works and quite popular in Slovenia on our national broadcaster.
@paulos9900 March 21, 2025 - 7:44 pm
This is how I followed the English premier league football scores in the early 90s when we didn't have internet.

I remember there also used to be adverts for premium rate football phone lines that would give you news or transfer rumours about your team... It was all pre recorded messages. When my parents saw the numbers on their phone bill they thought I'd been phoning premium rate sex phone lines.
@paulinagabrys8874 March 21, 2025 - 7:44 pm
Telegazeta chyba istnieje do dzisiaj. Owszem jest pełna ofert w stylu "gorące czterdziestki w twojej okolicy" ale nadal są tam pogoda, wiadomości czy program telewizyjny
@alexie40stencsi5 March 21, 2025 - 7:44 pm
Thanks to GOD..we still have him..online..🥲🥲
@alexie40stencsi5 March 21, 2025 - 7:44 pm
Ive so mis him..😢😢😢😢
@alexanderstormdahl2562 March 21, 2025 - 7:44 pm
This is still my grandpa's main source of news. It's like online news for the elderly.
@hsmhsm327 March 21, 2025 - 7:44 pm
Thank God! teletext has become obsolete, otherwise the brits would've conquered the world again to preach the testament of teletext.
@EternalFunction86 March 21, 2025 - 7:44 pm
my uncle most of the time use teletext to view 4d(lottery) result
@RetroGameSpacko March 21, 2025 - 7:44 pm
Pal runs with 50 fps not 25.
@Ginto_O March 21, 2025 - 7:44 pm
Iirc im my country (russia) teletext was used almost exclusively for tv program. I loved that thing as a kid, that looked like the Internet for me but free! And actual dialup internet was really expensive back then. Also i believe teletext is the reason we still have 4 colored buttons on remotes.
@Kyanzes March 21, 2025 - 7:44 pm
The subtitling in itself was already a very good idea. The news and info are also cool.
@spire393 March 21, 2025 - 7:44 pm
I was born stupid and this tech helped me get better.
@AmbientWalking March 21, 2025 - 7:44 pm
Omg. My grandmother used to check stock prices on Teletext.
@jacknasty6940 March 21, 2025 - 7:44 pm
Never heard of it
@retrosimon9843 March 21, 2025 - 7:44 pm
Loved it as a kid. Watching Discovery channel i could enable subtitles with teletext.
@MariusFusariu March 21, 2025 - 7:44 pm
You don't need your display to be oriented on vertical to view teletext. Peasants orient a display vertically
@ivisyung3088 March 21, 2025 - 7:44 pm
If you want subtitles on a TV show you can get subtitle via teletext

Uts not accurate though
@fartsupreme March 21, 2025 - 7:44 pm
PAL is/was trash. NTSC ftw. seriously the low fps of PAL was inferior from day one.
@owneddiagonal March 21, 2025 - 7:44 pm
Plain text that only contains the most useful data. That was teletext. Loved it as a kid. Used it to check which next cartoon would play. There were also easter egg types of teletext, if you entered the correct number
@MRdeLaat March 21, 2025 - 7:44 pm
lol teletext, i remember, it was easy to see tv programming
it was like early version internet
@billysolusi March 21, 2025 - 7:44 pm
Don't forget to cover the MINITEL in France also...
@cianog March 21, 2025 - 7:44 pm
In the U.K it was like early internet. You could check news , sports, entertainment, finance and so on.
@Grimnir_x March 21, 2025 - 7:44 pm
This is somehow easily one of the most interesting comment sections I've come across 😂

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