• TV question for UK readers

    From Wall E. Weasel@21:2/121 to All on Wed Jun 23 03:05:00 2021
    Here in the USA our Formula One television coverage is a relay of your Sky Sports network programming. Every so often the commentators give the instruction to "Press the red button" on the Sky remote. What exactly does this button do?


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  • From MeaTLoTioN@21:1/158 to Wall E. Weasel on Wed Jun 23 11:47:46 2021
    On 23 Jun 2021, Wall E. Weasel said the following...

    Here in the USA our Formula One television coverage is a relay of your SkySports network programming. Every so often the commentators give the instruction to "Press the red button" on the Sky remote. What exactly doesthis button do?

    The red button loads up an interactive menu system that you can get to extra information, think teletext but full hd colour with sound and video etc.

    https://www.sky.com/help/articles/using-the-sky-sports-red-button


    Hope this helps.

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  • From Wall E. Weasel@21:2/121 to MeaTLoTioN on Fri Jun 25 15:21:00 2021
    The red button loads up an interactive menu system that you can get to extra information, think teletext but full hd colour with sound and
    video etc.

    Thanks. Based on the context I figured it was some sort of information system but didn't realize it was that extensive.

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  • From Nigel Reed@21:2/101 to MeaTLoTioN on Thu Jul 1 11:12:57 2021
    MeaTLoTioN wrote:
    On 23 Jun 2021, Wall E. Weasel said the following...

    Here in the USA our Formula One television coverage is a relay of your SkySports network programming. Every so often the commentators give the instruction to "Press the red button" on the Sky remote. What exactly doesthis button do?

    The red button loads up an interactive menu system that you can get to extra information, think teletext but full hd colour with sound and video etc.

    Teletext is also a foreign concept in the US. There were limited trials way back when but it never took off.

    Teletext was a broadcast information system that used spare lines in the video signal to send text that could be accessed with a 3 digit page number. Each of the 3 TV channels at the time, BBC 1, BBC 2 and ITV had their own services. Ceefax on BBC and ORACLE on ITV. ORACLE provided the service for Channel 4
    when it came along.

    The interesting thing is that these signals were also captured on tape and people are restoring the service to take a snapshot of all the pages at the time. You can see the few pages I've done at https://teletext.nigelreed.net
    and look at "Teletext Pages" then pick a date on the right side.
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  • From MeaTLoTioN@21:1/158 to Nigel Reed on Thu Jul 1 19:33:51 2021
    at thetime. You can see the few pages I've done at https://teletext.nigelreed.netand look at "Teletext Pages" then pick a date on the right side.

    Oh my word, this is superb! I haven't read the whole site, does it explain how you captured this from the tape? How was this discovered?

    Mind = blown!

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  • From Daniel Path@21:4/148 to Nigel Reed on Thu Jul 1 21:52:26 2021
    Hello Nigel.

    01 Jul 21 11:12, you wrote to MeaTLoTioN:

    MeaTLoTioN wrote:
    On 23 Jun 2021, Wall E. Weasel said the following...

    Here in the USA our Formula One television coverage is a relay
    of your SkySports network programming. Every so often the
    commentators give the instruction to "Press the red button" on
    the Sky remote. What exactly doesthis button do?

    The red button loads up an interactive menu system that you can get
    to extra information, think teletext but full hd colour with sound
    and video etc.

    Teletext is also a foreign concept in the US. There were limited
    trials way back when but it never took off.

    Teletext was a broadcast information system that used spare lines in
    the video signal to send text that could be accessed with a 3 digit
    page number. Each of
    the 3 TV channels at the time, BBC 1, BBC 2 and ITV had their own services. Ceefax on BBC and ORACLE on ITV. ORACLE provided the service
    for Channel 4 when it came along.

    The interesting thing is that these signals were also captured on tape
    and people are restoring the service to take a snapshot of all the
    pages at the time. You can see the few pages I've done at https://teletext.nigelreed.net and look at "Teletext Pages" then pick
    a date on the right side.

    teletext is still working here... and its online too:
    https://www.teletext.hu/

    sadly its hungarian only.

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  • From paulie420@21:2/150 to Nigel Reed on Thu Jul 1 18:32:04 2021
    at thetime. You can see the few pages I've done at https://teletext.nigelreed.netand look at "Teletext Pages" then pick date on the right side.

    Oh my word, this is superb! I haven't read the whole site, does it
    explain how you captured this from the tape? How was this discovered?

    Mind = blown!
    Christian aka MeaTLoTioN

    I agree - just had a blast on your site and all the links provided. :P Thx!!



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