X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,1d291b2124ebb9d X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-12 06:21:45 PST From: Neil Franklin Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: professional Date: 12 Dec 2001 15:22:54 +0100 Organization: My own Private Self Lines: 24 Message-ID: <6u3d2gbjr5.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch> References: <3C16E7F2.1800@onramp.net> <3c175972$0$52951$edfadb0f@dspool01.news.tele.dk> X-Complaints-To: news@chonsp.franklin.ch NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Dec 2001 14:22:56 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.4 NNTP-Posting-Host: galapagos.ethz.ch X-Trace: 12 Dec 2001 15:21:41 +0100, galapagos.ethz.ch Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news-ge.switch.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!chonsp.franklin.ch!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:12400 "CeeJay" writes: > Though I thought about it the other day and came to the conclusion that a > ascii-artist would be very handy for making the tele-text (Text-TV) pages seen > on european TV ( NTSC does not leave some of the bandwidth unused so unlike PAL > it can't transmit tele-text .. so most americans dont know what this is) Teletext is transmitted in the vertical blanking retrace time slot, which in both PAL and NTSC is 1/5 of the time (the other 4/5 is picture). The reason the leftpondians do not have Teletext ist same reason why they are behind in mobile phones and particularly SMS: instead of one standard available everywhere and used by everyone they fragmented the market. Different stations send different stuff in the VBR and TV makers do not decode any of them, leaving this to various different specialised settop boxes that are extra buys and so are not universal. -- Neil Franklin, neil@franklin.ch.remove http://neil.franklin.ch/ Hacker, Unix Guru, El Eng HTL/BSc, Sysadmin, Archer, Roleplayer - Intellectual Property is Intellectual Robbery