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In the UK, we have the BBC Red Button. Incredibly useful in a hotel in the morning.

gpvos 10y ago
Yes, that's the system that the BBC wants to replace teletext with. As far as I know, it has not been implemented in any other country. I haven't seen much of it, but my impression is that it doesn't offer enough additional functionality over teletext, so other countries just stuck with that; for new functionality, it has basically been overtaken by the internet.
- RobertKerans 10y ago
  When it works it's really good, but that's for one specific thing at a time - Olympics or Glastonbury for example. It's a shame really, someone in one of the other comments mentioned split-screen with TV and teletext which I think is ideal for some things (eg football, for me), and red button stuff just isn't as simple, or give anything like the same consistency
- skrause 10y ago
  Other countries have adopted HbbTV instead and it looks like the BBC will also switch away from MHEG: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/statements/hbb-tv-standards http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/statements/hbb-tv-standards
  - david-given 10y ago
    If you want to see the true horror of MHEG programming, here's the source for a simple space invaders game in it: http://digvid.info/mheg5/invade.php http://digvid.info/mheg5/invade.php
  - gpvos 10y ago
    Do other countries run a similar information service using MHEG or HbbTV (news, weather, sports results, exchange rates, that kind of thing?).
- kalleboo 10y ago
  In Japan we have the "d button" with similar services - weather, news headlines, and for some shows dedicated program information and interactive services like voting. Of course they use a home-grown standard called BML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_Markup_Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_Markup_Language "The STD-B24 specification is derived from an early draft of XHTML 1.0 strict, which it extends and alters. Some subset of CSS 1 and 2 is supported, as well as ECMAScript." It can look something like this: Weather/news http://www.city.isa.kagoshima.jp/image/mbc.jpg http://www.city.isa.kagoshima.jp/image/mbc.jpg Realtime twitter timeline http://trendy.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/column/20101201/1033778/07_px250.jpg http://trendy.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/column/20101201/1033778...
- throwawayReply 10y ago
  It's also a lot slower than teletext, especially the fasttext / caching teletext TVs.

gpvos 10y ago

Yes, that's the system that the BBC wants to replace teletext with. As far as I know, it has not been implemented in any other country. I haven't seen much of it, but my impression is that it doesn't offer enough additional functionality over teletext, so other countries just stuck with that; for new functionality, it has basically been overtaken by the internet.

RobertKerans 10y ago
When it works it's really good, but that's for one specific thing at a time - Olympics or Glastonbury for example. It's a shame really, someone in one of the other comments mentioned split-screen with TV and teletext which I think is ideal for some things (eg football, for me), and red button stuff just isn't as simple, or give anything like the same consistency
skrause 10y ago
Other countries have adopted HbbTV instead and it looks like the BBC will also switch away from MHEG: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/statements/hbb-tv-standards http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/statements/hbb-tv-standards
- david-given 10y ago
  If you want to see the true horror of MHEG programming, here's the source for a simple space invaders game in it: http://digvid.info/mheg5/invade.php http://digvid.info/mheg5/invade.php
- gpvos 10y ago
  Do other countries run a similar information service using MHEG or HbbTV (news, weather, sports results, exchange rates, that kind of thing?).
kalleboo 10y ago
In Japan we have the "d button" with similar services - weather, news headlines, and for some shows dedicated program information and interactive services like voting. Of course they use a home-grown standard called BML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_Markup_Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_Markup_Language "The STD-B24 specification is derived from an early draft of XHTML 1.0 strict, which it extends and alters. Some subset of CSS 1 and 2 is supported, as well as ECMAScript." It can look something like this: Weather/news http://www.city.isa.kagoshima.jp/image/mbc.jpg http://www.city.isa.kagoshima.jp/image/mbc.jpg Realtime twitter timeline http://trendy.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/column/20101201/1033778/07_px250.jpg http://trendy.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/column/20101201/1033778...
throwawayReply 10y ago
It's also a lot slower than teletext, especially the fasttext / caching teletext TVs.