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nanoxide | 1 year ago

Teletext is still very much alive in Germany, pretty much every channel offers it. In fact, I use it most days to quickly check if there are any interesting headlines to follow up online, or for sports results. It's funny that it is frequently faster and easier to navigate than most enshittified news websites.

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tobwen|1 year ago

It was even crazier in Germany! In 2000, the television station NBC received a radio license for RadioMP3. They broadcasted the charts and entire albums (with covers) via teletext, which could be legally recorded at home. Bit rate 128 kbit/s - simply with a TV capture card. The public broadcaster also transmitted software via “VideoDAT” during its ComputerClub program. However, this required special hardware.

andrepd|1 year ago

I have seen more than one old geezer in NS trains reading the news on the Teletext app on the smartphone :)

Maybe they're into something?

jamesfinlayson|1 year ago

At a company I used to work at there was a service that scraped the teletext XML to get some numbers as a second source to double check what was scraped off a website.