Posted by Zero Tolerance on 10/28/06 18:52

On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 17:11:19 +0100, "Martin Underwood" <a@b> wrote:

>Also, some well-established capabilities of analogue VHS recorders, such as
>the recording of teletext subtitles as closed captions (as opposed to being
>burnt-into the picture) and the identification of programmes by title in a
>tape library (picked up from teletext), are not available with current
>set-top boxes.

There's no reason why conventional teletext can't be carried digitally
and certainly some of the earlier ONdigital set top boxes could quite
happily regenerate the VBI when teletext data was broadcast. The issue
is that it was apparently a policy decision by the likes of the BBC
and Teletext Ltd not to broadcast conventional teletext on the DTT
platform.
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