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hippiedalek
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Post subject: Teletext in 4K! Posted: 03 Apr 2017, 09:29 |
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Joined: 20 Feb 2011, 19:23 Posts: 1033 Location: United Kingdom Has thanked: 30 times Been thanked: 26 times
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I made an amusing discovery this weekend. My new 2016 model 4K Panasonic TV can still decode teletext from laserdisc! Sadly it only works when the player is plugged directly into the TV via RCA, so if I want teletext I have to bypass the lovely upscaling features of my AV receiver, but it's still a nice surprises. I just assumed that I wouldn't be able to access teletext features on LD anymore after upgrading my TV. Teletext is long gone here in the UK but I'm guessing it's still used elsewhere in Europe so the feature is still included in European models. The LD I'm demoing is Confidential Report (1955) [PLFMB 30881].
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hippiedalek
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Post subject: Re: Teletext in 4K! Posted: 03 Apr 2017, 12:09 |
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nissling wrote: We've still got teletext in Sweden and even to this day it's widely used by many. Good to know. I assumed it must be still alive and well somewhere. I do kind of miss it so I'm glad I've still got this small fragment of it on LD. No analog TV here in the UK since 2012.
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samaron
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Post subject: Re: Teletext in 4K! Posted: 03 Apr 2017, 12:20 |
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hippiedalek wrote: No analog TV here in the UK since 2012. And here we are in the progress of shutting down FM radio in Norway. TV got digitized in 2006. Hurry up!
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hippiedalek
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Post subject: Re: Teletext in 4K! Posted: 03 Apr 2017, 14:18 |
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samaron wrote: Ah, so you had digital and analog TV in parallel for a while? I just looked it up; digital was launched in the UK in 1998. I'd say by 2001 just about everyone was using it but analog wasn't finally turned off until 2012. They probably could have made the switchover a bit quicker. confederate wrote: I have a lot of S-VHS recordings from the early 2000s. The funny thing about those S-VHS recordings that the teletext signal was recorded, too. I think you could do the same with VHS. When analog and teletext were switched off here in the UK there was a group of people trying to archive old teletext pages from VHS tapes.
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confederate
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Post subject: Re: Teletext in 4K! Posted: 03 Apr 2017, 15:46 |
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You are right, samaron. It is not perfect but you can still read most of the news, sports, etc. The good thing about the recorded teletext is I know the exact date and time of the recording VHS does not record teletext. The resolution of the video signal is too low.
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hippiedalek
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Post subject: Re: Teletext in 4K! Posted: 05 Apr 2017, 09:22 |
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confederate wrote: VHS does not record teletext. The resolution of the video signal is too low. Although not full teletext I'm sure I remember pulling up subtitles from things I taped from TV on VHS. I may be imagining it though as it's been a long time since I used VHS.
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