Weird colours on this one, was it taken on a C64? Ah no, can't be, still too saturated.
That looks like the "Pages from Ceefax" which used to be broadcast as a normal TV picture often late at night on BBC 2. It always looked a bit more fuzzy than true teletext.
That looks like the "Pages from Ceefax" which used to be broadcast as a normal TV picture often late at night on BBC 2. It always looked a bit more fuzzy than true teletext.
yeah your right, it was always a bit more fuzzy. no idea who possibly sat there watching those pages though. i presume insomniacs and the slow.
yeah your right, it was always a bit more fuzzy. no idea who possibly sat there watching those pages though. i presume insomniacs and the slow.
With 68 pages to go through, it was a bit of a bugger if you missed the page you wanted.
If you were really bored, you could select teletext page 298 and put it into "mix" mode then notice how the text never quite lined up with the page on the TV picture. Come to think of it I may have been a bit of an insomniac back then. :D
they still do a christmas special of one man and his dog every year. i had it on when my GF walked in (canadian) and she was like WTF is this.
I know it's great isn't it, the show was always very popular, so they still kept the Christmas specials. I've been trying to download the memorable theme tune, but can't find it anywhere.
Back in the '80s even Channel 4 ripped it off, think their version was called "Sheepdog Trials" or something.
I know it's great isn't it, the show was always very popular, so they still kept the Christmas specials. I've been trying to download the memorable theme tune, but can't find it anywhere.
no its shit. :p
but strangly hypnotic.
i wouldn't mind but they are all really good at it, i want to see at least one round when the dog goes beserk and mauls one of the sheep. or the farmer loosing his rag and start beating his dog.
thats what was great about kick start, you knew that one day some little kid was going to get mangled.
yeah your right, it was always a bit more fuzzy. no idea who possibly sat there watching those pages though. i presume insomniacs and the slow.
The same people who were fascinated by the Testcard and loved the music that went with it. It's probably one of the main reasons the PFC is still going (just about), in that it has an audience just for the library music played with it.
Yes, that page does look like it's come from a video tape. Funnily enough, some of the others are too, but they are page renderings from the information that you could only capture properly on SVHS.
You can get a bit of garbled rubbish off a normal VHS tape too, but the resolution is too poor to record the information clearly enough. I even have VHS tapes that are copies of Betamax tapes and you can still occasionally get the word ORACLE or CEEFAX to appear. More often than not though, you just get something silly like GOOFAG to appear instead. Of course, the whole page hardly ever manages to load and when it does it's a mess, although sometimes you can get part of a picture or some text to decode properly. Original Beta tapes might be a bit better at it, but it still won't be very good. I don't know if the really old Philips machines would be any good at it, but they recorded in quite high quality (the N1500 in particular), better than Beta, so it's possible those tapes could hold something if they still play back well.
i wouldn't mind but they are all really good at it, i want to see at least one round when the dog goes beserk and mauls one of the sheep. or the farmer loosing his rag and start beating his dog.
Well if that did happen it probably would've ended up on the cutting room floor, perhaps for later viewing on Denis Norden's show. :D
Anyway, at least it was always action packed (by the way, don't actually bother watching this unless you like the show):-
yeah your right, it was always a bit more fuzzy. no idea who possibly sat there watching those pages though. i presume insomniacs and the slow.
I remember back in the 80's visiting my grandfather in the morning and he would always have BBC2's pages from ceefax on. I think he liked the music they played.
There's a brilliant extra on the DVD of "Look Around You" season 1* - a selection of Pages from Ceefax. But the funniest bit is the Morse Code section. Page after page of dots and dashes...
*If you've never seen this, it stars Peter Serafinowicz and is a brilliant parody of classic British educational programs from the 1970s and 1980s - right down to the blue clock ticking down at the start of the program. Season 1 was short ten minute episodes on a subject, season 2 was much grander and parodied Tomorrow's World.
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Bah... Teletext UK weren't as good as Oracle and 4-Tel...
Teletext UK got the telext franchise from 1/1/1993, replacing the original (and much much better) Oracle.
Oh. I see. I probably only started looking at teletext after 93.
Weird colours on this one, was it taken on a C64? Ah no, can't be, still too saturated.
looks like a photo of the screen.
That looks like the "Pages from Ceefax" which used to be broadcast as a normal TV picture often late at night on BBC 2. It always looked a bit more fuzzy than true teletext.
yeah your right, it was always a bit more fuzzy. no idea who possibly sat there watching those pages though. i presume insomniacs and the slow.
With 68 pages to go through, it was a bit of a bugger if you missed the page you wanted.
If you were really bored, you could select teletext page 298 and put it into "mix" mode then notice how the text never quite lined up with the page on the TV picture. Come to think of it I may have been a bit of an insomniac back then. :D
it still is occasionally
That's good - it's probably the best thing on then. :D
its not even in 3d!!
Well, I think the golden age of TV ended after One Man and his dog and Kick Start got axed. :D
they still do a christmas special of one man and his dog every year. i had it on when my GF walked in (canadian) and she was like WTF is this.
I know it's great isn't it, the show was always very popular, so they still kept the Christmas specials. I've been trying to download the memorable theme tune, but can't find it anywhere.
Back in the '80s even Channel 4 ripped it off, think their version was called "Sheepdog Trials" or something.
no its shit. :p
but strangly hypnotic.
i wouldn't mind but they are all really good at it, i want to see at least one round when the dog goes beserk and mauls one of the sheep. or the farmer loosing his rag and start beating his dog.
thats what was great about kick start, you knew that one day some little kid was going to get mangled.
The same people who were fascinated by the Testcard and loved the music that went with it. It's probably one of the main reasons the PFC is still going (just about), in that it has an audience just for the library music played with it.
Yes, that page does look like it's come from a video tape. Funnily enough, some of the others are too, but they are page renderings from the information that you could only capture properly on SVHS.
You can get a bit of garbled rubbish off a normal VHS tape too, but the resolution is too poor to record the information clearly enough. I even have VHS tapes that are copies of Betamax tapes and you can still occasionally get the word ORACLE or CEEFAX to appear. More often than not though, you just get something silly like GOOFAG to appear instead. Of course, the whole page hardly ever manages to load and when it does it's a mess, although sometimes you can get part of a picture or some text to decode properly. Original Beta tapes might be a bit better at it, but it still won't be very good. I don't know if the really old Philips machines would be any good at it, but they recorded in quite high quality (the N1500 in particular), better than Beta, so it's possible those tapes could hold something if they still play back well.
Well if that did happen it probably would've ended up on the cutting room floor, perhaps for later viewing on Denis Norden's show. :D
Anyway, at least it was always action packed (by the way, don't actually bother watching this unless you like the show):-
I remember back in the 80's visiting my grandfather in the morning and he would always have BBC2's pages from ceefax on. I think he liked the music they played.
this one takes me back.
*If you've never seen this, it stars Peter Serafinowicz and is a brilliant parody of classic British educational programs from the 1970s and 1980s - right down to the blue clock ticking down at the start of the program. Season 1 was short ten minute episodes on a subject, season 2 was much grander and parodied Tomorrow's World.