Yes, although I don’t know anyone who uses it. My grandparents probably never learnt to use it in the first place, and my parents and people younger than them just use the Internet, obviously. But here it is: https://www.rtve.es/television/teletexto/100/
Sure. They even recently invested quite a bit in replacing the back end system they use for it. That can now be maintained again.
Yes in Italy only RAI (state TV) still has Teletext
Yes, my granpa still uses it, i used to watch football matches result when i was a child
No, that technology went alway along with the PAL standard. With digital there is a programme guide and an (inaccurate) clock, but no news or trivia. I didn’t know there was any provision for old fashioned text in DVB. I don’t think anybody read teletext when it still existed. I tried to, but without a computer it was horribly slow. The TV could only hold a handful of pages in memory and when the fell out you had to wait until they came around again. The more pages there were, the longer was the wait. Today you could cache the whole thing, but nobody cares about that.
15-20 years ago nearly every major tv channel had its own Teletext service. Heck even a number of local channels (Mostly in Athens) had Teletext.
Nowadays only Star has Teletext.
Yes, there’s even an app so you can check it on your phone
He started cycling to help recover from an illness, and ended up doing several tours with distances of several thousand kilometers.
Romania: we still have Teletext for TVR and Antena1 channels, both in digital and analog trasmitted modes (easy to do and TV is basically only trough cable and free channels are absent).
Yes, it appears that approximately 1.5 million people continue to use it to this day.
I recall using Teletext as my primary source for global and local news, as we were required to present the news weekly at school.
My dad reads the teletext on his phone yet he still complains when I make age jokes
BBC Ceefax was brutally murdered. I genuinely miss it. When I still lived in the Netherlands that was how I followed the football. Hereford 2 – 2 Swindon 3
Never knew what the 3 was for until I moved to the UK. (Football pools : goal draw)
In Hungary the state media MTVA still provides teletex
I still use it. The more mainstream media is dumbed down, the more I like it. Not a single ad. No “news” about celebrities. Concise news items, no need to scroll.
I found out today that it is still working. Haven’t used it since 2008.
Denmark does.
We used it quite a bit for subtitles when the kids were sleeping, but newer TVs make it really cumbersome to access the function, even if it is available.
My father still use HRT (Croatian national tv) teletext every SINGLE day to check on temperatures around Europe and football scores.
Yes but as far as i know its only NRK that still has it.
In Sweden, are there any other channel than SVT who still uses it? I have no antenna or cable, and haven’t had for a long time, so I really don’t know. Only use my TV with a Chromecast.
I do have the SVT Text-TV app in my phone, though, and occasionally scroll through the news for a quick rundown on headlines, with no ads or any (well, very little) celebrity gossip, and very little bullshit.
Unrelated: Remember reading an interview in some paper when an old veteran from the teletext news section, who had worked for many decades, retired. He was asked how it was to work with huge massive stories, like Chernobyl, 9/11 or something.
He said that, for whatever reason, he had actually never worked with any BIG catastrophic news.
When Olof Palme was assinated, he was on vacation. When Chernobyl blew up, he was lying how sick. When Estonia sank, he wasn’t at work. On 9/11, he was again on vacation. During the 2004 Tsunami, he was also not at work.
And several other major international news stories, it was all the same.
During his 40+ years, he had missed pretty much *every* major news story, due to vacations, medical procedures, or other reasons for being off work.
At the end of the interview, one got the sense that “*Oh shit, he should* ***not*** *retire!* *He should* ***never*** be allowed to leave work for any reason whatsoever, or else we’re all screwed!*”
Yes and my grandma and mom sometimes still use it. Finland.
While i don’t use it, my father does. It condenses so much sports information in a few pages you’d take 20min to google and check all of it.
Nope. The VRT (Flemish) already discontinued teletext in 2016. The RTBF (Walloon) discontinued it earlier this year.
yes. i dont know anyone who uses it, but apparently it still has a lot of users
i went on it, but its kinda confusing, i guess im just too young or sth, my parents never used it when i was a kid
It’s something that was never really popular in France, so I really doubt it’s still working today. We had the Minitel instead, it was a terminal that every house could have for free, you payed only the communications and you could access various servers where you could have news, chat, games. Kind of pre-internet.
In Ireland, our teletext service ended in October of last year. It started here on RTE (Ireland’s state broadcaster) back in 1986, but its popularity went down back in the mid to late 2000s.
Germany. I don’t know. My last tv was one of the bulky cubes when the calendar still showed 19 something…
I should turn on the TV and try it. I haven’t turned it on in maybe over 6 months…
Yes. One Greek channel at least does still have Teletext.
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Yes, although I don’t know anyone who uses it. My grandparents probably never learnt to use it in the first place, and my parents and people younger than them just use the Internet, obviously. But here it is: https://www.rtve.es/television/teletexto/100/
Sure. They even recently invested quite a bit in replacing the back end system they use for it. That can now be maintained again.
Yes in Italy only RAI (state TV) still has Teletext
Yes, my granpa still uses it, i used to watch football matches result when i was a child
Fifty years old this year!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext
One page = 1k of data!
No, that technology went alway along with the PAL standard. With digital there is a programme guide and an (inaccurate) clock, but no news or trivia. I didn’t know there was any provision for old fashioned text in DVB. I don’t think anybody read teletext when it still existed. I tried to, but without a computer it was horribly slow. The TV could only hold a handful of pages in memory and when the fell out you had to wait until they came around again. The more pages there were, the longer was the wait. Today you could cache the whole thing, but nobody cares about that.
15-20 years ago nearly every major tv channel had its own Teletext service. Heck even a number of local channels (Mostly in Athens) had Teletext.
Nowadays only Star has Teletext.
Yes, there’s even an app so you can check it on your phone
We do, too.
And the last remaining one is run by [this national treasure of a man](https://www.etlehti.fi/artikkeli/ihmiset/pitkanmatkanpyorailija-matti-ramo-tien-paalla-olen-kotona). He’s done some totally crazy bicycle tours and written books about them.
He started cycling to help recover from an illness, and ended up doing several tours with distances of several thousand kilometers.
Romania: we still have Teletext for TVR and Antena1 channels, both in digital and analog trasmitted modes (easy to do and TV is basically only trough cable and free channels are absent).
Yes, it appears that approximately 1.5 million people continue to use it to this day.
I recall using Teletext as my primary source for global and local news, as we were required to present the news weekly at school.
My dad reads the teletext on his phone yet he still complains when I make age jokes
BBC Ceefax was brutally murdered. I genuinely miss it. When I still lived in the Netherlands that was how I followed the football. Hereford 2 – 2 Swindon 3
Never knew what the 3 was for until I moved to the UK. (Football pools : goal draw)
In Hungary the state media MTVA still provides teletex
We sure do: [https://yle.fi/aihe/tekstitv?P=100](https://yle.fi/aihe/tekstitv?P=100)
I still use it. The more mainstream media is dumbed down, the more I like it. Not a single ad. No “news” about celebrities. Concise news items, no need to scroll.
I found out today that it is still working. Haven’t used it since 2008.
Denmark does.
We used it quite a bit for subtitles when the kids were sleeping, but newer TVs make it really cumbersome to access the function, even if it is available.
My father still use HRT (Croatian national tv) teletext every SINGLE day to check on temperatures around Europe and football scores.
Yes but as far as i know its only NRK that still has it.
In Sweden, are there any other channel than SVT who still uses it? I have no antenna or cable, and haven’t had for a long time, so I really don’t know. Only use my TV with a Chromecast.
I do have the SVT Text-TV app in my phone, though, and occasionally scroll through the news for a quick rundown on headlines, with no ads or any (well, very little) celebrity gossip, and very little bullshit.
Unrelated: Remember reading an interview in some paper when an old veteran from the teletext news section, who had worked for many decades, retired. He was asked how it was to work with huge massive stories, like Chernobyl, 9/11 or something.
He said that, for whatever reason, he had actually never worked with any BIG catastrophic news.
When Olof Palme was assinated, he was on vacation. When Chernobyl blew up, he was lying how sick. When Estonia sank, he wasn’t at work. On 9/11, he was again on vacation. During the 2004 Tsunami, he was also not at work.
And several other major international news stories, it was all the same.
During his 40+ years, he had missed pretty much *every* major news story, due to vacations, medical procedures, or other reasons for being off work.
At the end of the interview, one got the sense that “*Oh shit, he should* ***not*** *retire!* *He should* ***never*** be allowed to leave work for any reason whatsoever, or else we’re all screwed!*”
Yes and my grandma and mom sometimes still use it. Finland.
While i don’t use it, my father does. It condenses so much sports information in a few pages you’d take 20min to google and check all of it.
Nope. The VRT (Flemish) already discontinued teletext in 2016. The RTBF (Walloon) discontinued it earlier this year.
yes. i dont know anyone who uses it, but apparently it still has a lot of users
i went on it, but its kinda confusing, i guess im just too young or sth, my parents never used it when i was a kid
It’s something that was never really popular in France, so I really doubt it’s still working today. We had the Minitel instead, it was a terminal that every house could have for free, you payed only the communications and you could access various servers where you could have news, chat, games. Kind of pre-internet.
In Ireland, our teletext service ended in October of last year. It started here on RTE (Ireland’s state broadcaster) back in 1986, but its popularity went down back in the mid to late 2000s.
Germany. I don’t know. My last tv was one of the bulky cubes when the calendar still showed 19 something…
I should turn on the TV and try it. I haven’t turned it on in maybe over 6 months…
Yes. One Greek channel at least does still have Teletext.