Teefax: The New Ceefax! BBC The One Show, 29 January 2020 - Teletext
Dan Farrimond
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(c)BBC 2020
Angela Rippon presents a segment on Ceefax and its successor, Teefax. Featuring Mort Smith and Peter Kwan, who presents a gallery of teletext art... and the mythical Ceefax Holidays.
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@glassowlie 5 years ago (edited)
I want BBC to do a digital version of Ceefax as a retro mode for Red Button as an anniversary for it.
@holydiver73 4 years ago
We were the first people in our street to get a teletext set. The reason being is that before ceefax, my dad had to walk up to the bookies to find out if his horses had won. As soon as he found out that he could find out racing results within minutes of the race taking place and then only go there if he’d won, he was straight off to radio rentals.
@roombaclock 5 years ago
Fun fact: in sweden when then switched to digital tv they decided to make a digital version of teletext but it looked EXACLY like it always did although most channels don’t use it anymore (I know svt still uses it but tv4 and tv5 and a few other channels turned it off) so yeah
@MartinFarrell1972 4 years ago
Loved teletext grwing up. Used to check out the music pages and BBC had an 8 bit computer section updated on a Sunday morning. Used to put subtitles on for a bit of fun, and then forgot I had done it. I'd go to bed and my parents would get annoyed as they didn't know how to turn them off! My dad eventually got to grips with it. He was 80 last week and still uses the internet daily if he's not at a karoake bar.
@97channel 6 years ago
Perfect analogy, the comparison with preserving the experience of steam trains. Teletext is something I do hope will never be forgotten by the history books. It was really the world's first on demand information service, which is an achievement not to be undervalued.
@gman83090 3 years ago (edited)
In Australia every TAB betting outlet has Sky text and it's exactly the same system as ceefax so even if we can't access it from our televisions at home there's still a version of it at tab betting outlets😊
@adultmoshifan87 4 years ago (edited)
If I could start my own country, I would definitely offer a Teletext service on the TV channels in my country! Always good to have a backup for if your internet goes down! Not to mention, with the recent announcement of Sky Glass, a streaming TV, I've been questioning whether new tech is worth getting excited for anymore. Smartphones and tablets need to be replaced every 3-4 years, your internet is prone to the occasional outage, the streaming market is getting too saturated and a lot of it is making me long for the 90s and even (to a lesser extent) the 2000s! Disney are foolish for making me pay for Disney+ on top of my Sky subscription by shutting down their satellite channels last year! Teletext may not have offered as much functionality as the internet, but at least it took less time to setup!
@JennyAnnTea 5 years ago
I miss Ceefax. I loved using it. I played Bamboozle daily! My sister and I had running totals!
@gisellealexandrabrugeselle1485 3 years ago
¡¡¡¡¡WOW!!!!! ¿¡Un Ceefax digital!?
¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡DIOS MÍO!!!!!!!!!!!
¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡DIOS MÍO!!!!!!!!!!!
@retrojimmyx 6 years ago
I thought I was a nerd but I got nothing on that guy. Maybe another decade and I'll get there. Wonderful resurrection of nostalgia.
@2j4ez 4 years ago
teletext is still working in other countries if i press teletext on my tv when using satellite (astra 1) it comes up
Teefax: The New Ceefax! BBC The One Show, 29 January 2020 - Teletext
Dan Farrimond
54,739 views
(c)BBC 2020
Angela Rippon presents a segment on Ceefax and its successor, Teefax. Featuring Mort Smith and Peter Kwan, who presents a gallery of teletext art... and the mythical Ceefax Holidays.