Subj : Re: UK VHS tapes
To   : Mantrid
From : Nelgin
Date : Wed Feb 10 2021 22:19:26

Mantrid wrote:
>   Re: UK VHS tapes
>   By: Nelgin to RetroNet.RTN_BUY_SELL on Tue Feb 09 2021 12:25 pm
> 
>  > ld be willing to ship to the
>  > US (I will pay for shopping), please let me know. I'm interested in very ear
>  > recordings if possible but will accept any tapes that have teletext on, even
>  > from satellite channels.
> 
> I can't say I remember any way of having teletext record onto casettes, was
> that a thing?
> 
> My in laws must have loads of casettes, nowadays though you can't even give
> them away to charity shops, but i think they've kept their VCR so they're still
> in use

I was surprised to learn this too, but the data is sent as part of the
broadcast and is captured on the video cassette. Using software and specific
types of video cards, you can extract the VBI, as it's called, which can then
be converted into individual packets that make up the pages. 

If your in-laws are willing to let some of the tapes go, I'd gladly give it a
try.

My parents had a "Last Night of the Proms" tape from 2005. I was able to get a
pretty good capture of BBC 1 Ceefax from that date. 

I'm still working on my website but you can view it here.

http://teletext.nigelreed.net/teletext.html

click on the date on the right side.

You'll need to click on the teletext image then you can enter page numbers.
(I'll fix it to 'auto-focus' once I figure out how lol).

Thanks,
Nigel

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