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You are watching... |
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graphics from CEEFAX In Vision
sequences... |
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...these should have you wallowing in
nostalgia! |
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These were also captured in 1983 by Mark Cook... |
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... using his BBC Model B computer and
teletext decoder. |
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And by Bryan Green who has captured many
images for TTAN from S-VHS video (Aren't the
lady and gentleman usually the other way around in real weather houses?) |
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And November, of course, is CIN time. |
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During the mid eighties, schools
programmes moved from BBC1 to BBC2, in a strand known as "Daytime on 2". This
often had short breaks where a special Daytime selection of Ceefax pages were shown in
vision. |
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Another incarnation of CEEFAX In Vision
was CEEFAX AM (1987/88) |
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Here, the Ceefax In Vision
service brings us news of the appalling fire tragedy at Kings Cross
Underground station in 1987. |
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CEEFAX AM - date unknown |
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Here's
part of a sequence from 1989 including
the classic Teletext is... pages |
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The BBC flirted with Level 2
Teletext, which offers higher resolution graphics, wide text and more colours.
This image is taken from pages shown before programmes begin in the morning. The BBC have
now abandoned Level 2 and say they have no plans to broadcast it in the future. |
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The same image as above, in normal Level
1+ format. This was also recorded "off-air" during the Pages from Ceefax
sequence prior to programmes beginning |
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And here is a second example
of differences between Level 1 and Level 2 decoding. Above is an In Vision page decoded by Bryan Green's decoder (on Sat
12-Nov-1988), while below is the page as broadcast, decoded by the BBC's own Level 2
decoder. |
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Finally,
on this page, part of an early morning Ceefax In Vision sequence in December
1995, recorded on VHS while Mike McGonagle was opening his
Christmas presents!
These pages give a clear impression of
what teletext could have gone on to become.
What a same it didn't. |
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