9/1/2023 0 Comments Ned1 teletext![]() ![]() Less successful were attempts to update teletext itself. While much of the software is obscure by today’s standards (including a slightly dubious Star Trek game) the service endured into the late 1980s. Enthusiasts could buy an adaptor containing tuning dials and a TV aerial, using it to download utilities and games using the same TV signals that carried teletext. Teletext’s popularity saw the technology used in all sorts of weird and wonderful ways – not least of which was telesoftware, an initiative by the Beeb itself using Acorn’s BBC Micro computer. By 1982 over two million TVs – mostly portable ones, as it would take longer for larger sets to catch up – could access both Ceefax and ORACLE, which had launched as ITV’s teletext service and presented itself as a novel new advertising platform. Though take-up was initially somewhat limited since a set-top box was needed to access the service, TV sets with in-built decoders gradually trickled onto the market and the audience swelled. The race to be King of the Teletext Hill had officially begun.Ĭeefax was launched formally in 1976. All were originally incompatible, which would have been a nightmare for TV manufacturers and consumers alike, but a specification was eventually agreed that would later be taken up worldwide. Not to be outdone, competing companies promptly announced their own endeavours in the form of rival services like ORACLE and Prestel. ![]()
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