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Large Amounts of Info
DickieP Started conversation Apr 20, 2000
The biggest drawback of teletext is when there are large amounts of information and you end up having 20 or more pages which take 6 or 7 minutes to flick round. Especially if you go in at page 3 and the information you want is on 2/23.
Large Amounts of Info
Caveman, Evil Unix Sysadmin, betting shop operative, and SuDoku addict (Its an odd mix, but someone has to do it) Posted Apr 20, 2000
Finding page 3/23 when you want page 2 is annoying.
What is baffling is that if one page occupies 1k, and there are 800 (maximum user addressable) pages (100-899 incl), and that if we assume that each page has on average four sub-pages, that's 2400k total information per channel.
With memory prices the way they are, why haven't TV manufacturers stuck 4Mb
RAM into their TV's, or used a chip by some clever person who has integrated a
meg or three of RAM onto the decoder, so that there's no delay?
Then of course there's this promised 'Digital Teletext' which should come with
digital TV. I get to find out about this on Friday next week when someone is
due round to stick an electric dustbin lid on my house...
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