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Teletext is still very much alive in Germany, pretty much every channel offers it. In fact, I use it most days to quickly check if there are any interesting hea
by nanoxide 2y ago
Teletext is still very much alive in Germany, pretty much every channel offers it. In fact, I use it most days to quickly check if there are any interesting headlines to follow up online, or for sports results. It's funny that it is frequently faster and easier to navigate than most enshittified news websites.
- mcraiha 2y agoSame in Finland. There is a one guy running the show nowadays. https://yle.fi/a/3-12131551 https://yle.fi/a/3-12131551 (article only in Finnish)
- Cthulhu_ 2y agoSame in the Netherlands, but it's updated to the modern age with a website / emulator [0] and app [1], both appropriately styled. [0] https://nos.nl/teletekst https://nos.nl/teletekst [1] https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/nos-teletekst/id289246732 https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/nos-teletekst/id289246732
- tobwen 2y agoIt was even crazier in Germany! In 2000, the television station NBC received a radio license for RadioMP3. They broadcasted the charts and entire albums (with covers) via teletext, which could be legally recorded at home. Bit rate 128 kbit/s - simply with a TV capture card. The public broadcaster also transmitted software via “VideoDAT” during its ComputerClub program. However, this required special hardware.
- andrepd 2y agoI have seen more than one old geezer in NS trains reading the news on the Teletext app on the smartphone :) Maybe they're into something?
- jamesfinlayson 2y agoAt a company I used to work at there was a service that scraped the teletext XML to get some numbers as a second source to double check what was scraped off a website.