Message-ID: <3CB26CA2.8080900@beagle-ears.com> Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 21:22:58 -0700 From: Lars Poulsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: da,en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers To: Neil Franklin Subject: Teletext - was: NAPLPS --> Re: First images in email? References: <3cac4251$1_2@news.iglou.com> <3CACEC22.3C1F11EE@cogeco.ca> <6uk7rklhbs.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 37 NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.154.106.6 X-Trace: azure.impulse.net 1018326169 190 207.154.106.6 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news.imp.ch!news.imp.ch!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!enews.sgi.com!news-out.spamkiller.net!propagator-la!news-in-la.newsfeeds.com!sienna.impulse.net!azure.impulse.net!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.folklore.computers:105640 >>Teletext: Text service on top of a television signal. Monodirectional. >>Typical usages: News, TV programme schedules, film subtitling for the deaf Neil Franklin wrote: > Also airport arrivals, weather/wind forcast/status, traffic > data. Basically an updated-in-minutes electronic news"paper" broadcast. > As most Americans have never seen it, a short description: > - 40x25 characters (optimised for TV displays) > - character set roughly ASCII plus simple character cell graphics > - attributes 8 primary colours for fore- and background and blinking > - also has an background = TV picture show-through mode (used for > subtitling) The Danish public broadcasting service has theirs on the WWW; this makes it easy to keep tabs on family members who are travelling. See the front page at http://www.dr.dk/nav/tekstttv/ttv.asp?side=100&kanal=dr1 Page 407 is weather abroad http://www.dr.dk/nav/tekstttv/ttv.asp?side=407&kanal=dr1 However, it looks as if they are no longer presenting live snaps off the TeleText system, but rather screen captures "when things get updated" which misses updates from the live data feeds from the airport. Do any other european stations put their TTX on the web? -- / Lars Poulsen +1-805-569-5277 http://www.beagle-ears.com/lars/ 125 South Ontare Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93105 USA lars@beagle-ears.com ###### From: d88-bli@bitbucket.nada.kth.se.invalid (Bo Lindbergh) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Teletext - was: NAPLPS --> Re: First images in email? Date: 9 Apr 2002 06:36:53 GMT Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 10 Message-ID: References: <6uk7rklhbs.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch> <3CB26CA2.8080900@beagle-ears.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: my.nada.kth.se X-Trace: news.su.se 1018334213 957 130.237.226.101 (9 Apr 2002 06:36:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@su.se NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Apr 2002 06:36:53 GMT X-From: remove first and last components of hostname before replying Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-out.spamkiller.net!propagator2-maxim!propagator-maxim!news-in.spamkiller.net!xmission!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!surfnet.nl!newsfeed.sunet.se!news01.sunet.se!news.su.se!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.folklore.computers:105769 In article <3CB26CA2.8080900@beagle-ears.com> Lars Poulsen writes: > > Do any other european stations put their TTX on the web? http://www.svt.se/texttv/100.html http://www.tv4.se/texttv/text-tv.asp?Pagenumber=100 /Bo Lindbergh (see X-From header field) ###### From: Walter Belgers Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Teletext - was: NAPLPS --> Re: First images in email? Date: 9 Apr 2002 08:00:32 GMT Organization: SURFnet BV Lines: 11 Message-ID: References: <6uk7rklhbs.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch> <3CB26CA2.8080900@beagle-ears.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: giga.giga.nl X-Trace: news.surfnet.nl 1018339232 20697 192.87.111.194 (9 Apr 2002 08:00:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.surfnet.nl NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Apr 2002 08:00:32 GMT User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.2 (FreeBSD) Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-out.spamkiller.net!propagator2-maxim!propagator-maxim!news-in.spamkiller.net!xmission!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!howland.erols.net!surfnet.nl!news.surfnet.nl!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.folklore.computers:105666 > In article <3CB26CA2.8080900@beagle-ears.com> Lars Poulsen writes: >> Do any other european stations put their TTX on the web? http://teletekst.nos.nl/ This is the Dutch version. Still very popular. Walter. -- Walter Belgers "Si hoc signum legere potes, operis boni in rebus walter@giga.nl Latinis alacribus et fructuosis potiri potes!" ###### Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!not-for-mail From: Neil Franklin Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Teletext - was: NAPLPS --> Re: First images in email? Date: 10 Apr 2002 21:57:51 +0200 Organization: My own Private Self Lines: 39 Message-ID: <6uvgazuy0w.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch> References: <3cac4251$1_2@news.iglou.com> <3CACEC22.3C1F11EE@cogeco.ca> <6uk7rklhbs.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch> <3CB26CA2.8080900@beagle-ears.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: chonsp.franklin.ch X-Trace: chonsp.franklin.ch 1018468671 737 10.0.3.2 (10 Apr 2002 19:57:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@chonsp.franklin.ch NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Apr 2002 19:57:51 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.4 Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.folklore.computers:105792 Lars Poulsen wrote: > > Neil Franklin wrote: > > > Also airport arrivals, weather/wind forcast/status, traffic > > data. Basically an updated-in-minutes electronic news"paper" broadcast. > > The Danish public broadcasting service has theirs on the WWW; Nice. > See the front page at > http://www.dr.dk/nav/tekstttv/ttv.asp?side=100&kanal=dr1 > Page 407 is weather abroad > http://www.dr.dk/nav/tekstttv/ttv.asp?side=407&kanal=dr1 Does not work with my browser. Page source showws JavaScript and an