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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 12 Dec 2001.
Re: professional

Re: professional

"CeeJay" <use...@ceejay.cjb.REMOVEnet> 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, nei...@franklin.ch.remove http://neil.franklin.ch/
Hacker, Unix Guru, El Eng HTL/BSc, Sysadmin, Archer, Roleplayer
- Intellectual Property is Intellectual Robbery

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