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BBC to scrap Red Button text information service early 2020!

SoundAsa£
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Bugger.......I am a regular user of this service since way back when it was called Teletext and latterly Ceefax.
Really going to miss this as it’s my ‘go to’ way of finding out all sorts of stuff, it’s second nature to me......I have used it constantly for the last 45 years.
Bloody outrageous if you ask me!
Really going to miss this as it’s my ‘go to’ way of finding out all sorts of stuff, it’s second nature to me......I have used it constantly for the last 45 years.
Bloody outrageous if you ask me!
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Think the only thing I've used it for was to watch a different match when Wimbledon is on.0
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Talal said:Think the only thing I've used it for was to watch a different match when Wimbledon is on.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-49715314
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I ill miss it too.0
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I won't miss it - bloody ugly thing sat next to the TV.
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For donkeys years I get home, make a brew then pop teletext on. 302 for the footy. 101 for the news then 160 for local news. 301 for the general sport then 401 for the weather. That ritual takes the same time as drinking my brew, gutted it's going.3
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Never looked at it via red button.
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In an era when we are bombarded with 'news' every half hour around the clock (every 1/4 hour on some commercial stations), teletext has been deemed redundant. Another episode of freedom of choice falling victim to BBC cuts. Surely a reduction in Gazza Lickmelater's extortionate salary would have part enabled this service to continue ?2
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Anyone else used to spend 2 hours on a Saturday watching the ceefax scroll through to see if there was a score? Internet rather makes it redundant, though I do miss playing Bamboozle7
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It's 2019 now ffs... Can't believe they've kept this going... What a waste of money.2
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reminds me of the Peter Kay sketch - get on teletext
Booked it, packed it, fooked off1 - Sponsored links:
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McBobbin said:Anyone else used to spend 2 hours on a Saturday watching the ceefax scroll through to see if there was a score? Internet rather makes it redundant, though I do miss playing Bamboozle
No internet at my Nan's or SKY (for Soccer Saturday) so had to watch the three pages of scores to scroll by for 90mins
Junior Bamboozle was / still is more my level though1 -
People talking about watching the 3 pages of scores for 2 hours, did no one press(i cant remember what page number it was now it was years ago) but you could still watch what was on tv and everytime there was a goal it flashed up, like a smaller version of what they now call Vidiprinter0
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Just went on Google to try and find the page number and saw a news story with this picture
All 5 goalscorers ex Charlton haha
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Dazzler21 said:It's 2019 now ffs... Can't believe they've kept this going... What a waste of money.
It’s a reliable time and tested media tool to this day, very easy to access and use.
Just because you don’t use it there’s no need to be so dismissive of those of us who have relied on it for decades........I love it and will be severely inconvenienced by its demise.3 -
paulie8290 said:Just went on Google to try and find the page number and saw a news story with this picture
All 5 goalscorers ex Charlton haha
I was frankly a mess by about 6 o'clock that night.1 -
North Lower Neil said:paulie8290 said:Just went on Google to try and find the page number and saw a news story with this picture
All 5 goalscorers ex Charlton haha
I was frankly a mess by about 6 o'clock that night.4 -
SoundAsa£ said:North Lower Neil said:paulie8290 said:Just went on Google to try and find the page number and saw a news story with this picture
All 5 goalscorers ex Charlton haha
I was frankly a mess by about 6 o'clock that night.2 -
The red button was a scam.
When I pressed the red button on my remote it turned the telly off.
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McBobbin said:Anyone else used to spend 2 hours on a Saturday watching the ceefax scroll through to see if there was a score? Internet rather makes it redundant, though I do miss playing Bamboozle
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North Lower Neil said:paulie8290 said:Just went on Google to try and find the page number and saw a news story with this picture
All 5 goalscorers ex Charlton haha
I was frankly a mess by about 6 o'clock that night.1 - Sponsored links:
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I never knew it existed.0
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Not even looked at Ceefax for at least 25 years and was somewhat surprised to learn it was still going at all.
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paulie8290 said:People talking about watching the 3 pages of scores for 2 hours, did no one press(i cant remember what page number it was now it was years ago) but you could still watch what was on tv and everytime there was a goal it flashed up, like a smaller version of what they now call Vidiprinter0
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My wife says I could never find the red button anyway2
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Stig said:McBobbin said:Anyone else used to spend 2 hours on a Saturday watching the ceefax scroll through to see if there was a score? Internet rather makes it redundant, though I do miss playing Bamboozle
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Gutted I won't be able to read about a British athlete winning bronze in the Sri Lankan turtle throwing competition or whatever else it is the bbc classify as sports coverage these days1
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cabbles said:Gutted I won't be able to read about a British athlete winning bronze in the Sri Lankan turtle throwing competition or whatever else it is the bbc classify as sports coverage these days2
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Page The Oracle0
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Funny how people still rely on it with all the technology we have available to us, my grandad recently got his first smartphone and internet installed at his house but would still go to red button to check the results at the horses.0