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> Are there countries that just never had (widespread adoption of) teletext? It was never really a thing in the US. There were a couple of short-lived attempts
by duskwuff 6y ago
> Are there countries that just never had (widespread adoption of) teletext?
It was never really a thing in the US. There were a couple of short-lived attempts, but none of them ever caught on, and receiver hardware was rare.
- leoc 6y agoIIUC the short version of the story is that PAL regions got Teletext while NTSC regions ended up with NTSC closed captioning instead?
- Symbiote 6y agoSeems so. Teletext also supported subtitles (as we called it in Britain), by selecting Teletext page 888.
- flingo 6y agoLast I checked, 888 still works on satellite, and most digital TV. Nothing there, but a page 100 telling you that there's no teletext, but page 888 still has subtitles on it.