If your TV region has not yet "gone digital", you can still get Ceefax on standard TV sets that have an analogue receiver and are connected to a TV aerial with a suitable signal. If you still wish to receive the older Ceefax, it's still being broadcast on analogue TV. See this thread in the Radio and Telly forum for discussion of text services on Virgin. For text services, you can also press the Interactive button on your Virgin box remote for access to limited text services. Also, there seems to be a problem with text services on a V+ box connected via HDMI (as opposed to via a SCART lead). This doesn't work for customers in former NTL areas, though. Former Telewest cable customers seem to be able to access the Digital Text service using the Red button on channels like BBC1 and Channel 4. Virgin Media - This seems more complicated.Tune to a BBC TV channel or ITV, then press the Red button on your Freesat remote control. Freesat - BBCi and Teletext are available on Freesat.You can also access a range of text services, including Sky Active, by pressing the 'Interactive' button on your remote. Sky Digital - Tune to BBC1, ITV1, Channel 4, or one of the Sky channels, then press the Red button on your Sky remote.Alternatively, the service is available on special channels: channel 101 (Teletext), 105 (BBC Red Button), 104 (Channel 4 Teletext) or 108 (Sky Text) Freeview - Tune to BBC1, ITV1 or Channel 4, then press the Red button on your Freeview remote.Here's how to access the new Interactive service: The new text service is available via the red button on your digital TV or set-top box's remote control. This is the successor to Ceefax and Teletext, offering higher-quality images, a better level of interaction, and faster data rates. New digital TV services, such as Freeview, Sky Digital, Freesat, BT Vision and Virgin Media offer a different text service. The ITV Teletext service ended in December 2009. Ceefax is planned to be phased out as part of the Digital Switchover, and will disappear in October 2012. The UK has almost complted the switch over to digital TV. Most will know this as " Ceefax", with the ITV's service starting as Oracle, then becoming " Teletext".Īnalogue: Ceefax from the BBC, and ITV's Teletext The BBC started broadcasting their text-based service back in the 1970's. Teletext and Ceefax after the Digital Switchover?
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