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Jimbo GM4DHJ ...

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Dec 19, 2009, 6:45:40 PM12/19/09
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Frank Turner-Smith G3VKI

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Dec 19, 2009, 7:44:57 PM12/19/09
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"Jimbo GM4DHJ ..." <jim.g...@googlemail.com> wrote in message
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> http://timesonline.typepad.com/timesarchive/2009/12/goodbye-teletext.html
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Yeah, and the Freeview replacement is Krap.
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Dec 19, 2009, 7:49:34 PM12/19/09
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Jimbo GM4DHJ ... wrote:
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Teletext was digital.....


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Yeti

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Dec 19, 2009, 10:07:39 PM12/19/09
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Jimbo GM4DHJ ... wrote:
> http://timesonline.typepad.com/timesarchive/2009/12/goodbye-teletext.html
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Ah teletext. Think of it as the internet, but bought from a pound shop.

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Jimbo GM4DHJ ...

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Dec 20, 2009, 4:05:19 AM12/20/09
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"Yeti" <ye...@ayrshore.com> wrote in message
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> Jimbo GM4DHJ ... wrote:
>> http://timesonline.typepad.com/timesarchive/2009/12/goodbye-teletext.html
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> Ah teletext. Think of it as the internet, but bought from a pound shop.

It felt like the leading edge of technology in the 1970's .....also had a
ham radio page?


Ian Jackson

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Dec 20, 2009, 4:29:04 AM12/20/09
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In message <eseXm.78705$6O1....@newsfe23.ams2>, Frank Turner-Smith
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>"Jimbo GM4DHJ ..." <jim.g...@googlemail.com> wrote in message
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>> http://timesonline.typepad.com/timesarchive/2009/12/goodbye-teletext.html
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>Yeah, and the Freeview replacement is Krap.

Just like the quality of a lot of Freeview pictures.
It's all krap - it's DIGITAL!
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Jimbo GM4DHJ ...

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Dec 20, 2009, 5:06:25 AM12/20/09
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"Ian Jackson" <ianREMOVET...@g3ohx.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Ian

the DIGITAL world is fecked .....


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Yeti

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Dec 20, 2009, 6:42:30 AM12/20/09
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Chronos wrote:

> Yeti wrote:
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>> Ah teletext. Think of it as the internet, but bought from a pound shop.
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> Anybody remember Ceefax telesoftware? Beeb with a text adaptor, them were t'
> days...

Yes - the teletext adaptor connected to the computer's Tube port....

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Jimbo GM4DHJ ...

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Dec 20, 2009, 7:13:46 AM12/20/09
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"Brian Morrison" <b...@fenrir.org.uk> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:29:04 +0000
> Ian Jackson <ianREMOVET...@g3ohx.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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>> It's all krap - it's DIGITAL!
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> It's crap because they broadcasters want more channels instead of
> concentrating on the good programmes and transmitting them at an
> adequate bit rate. Not because it's digital.
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but DIGITAL allows them to do THAT .......so you get short changed


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