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Millions of Brits Lose Ceefax News Service
judgecorp writes "Millions of Britons have lost access to Ceefax, the real time information service that has piggy-backed on blank lines of the analogue TV signal since the 1970s. Analogue TV is being switched off, and the low-res news service looks to be going with it. From the article: '“Although we won’t be saying our proper goodbyes to Ceefax until later in the year when switchover is complete across the country, I wanted to send a note of reassurance and a reminder: our digital text service, available via the red button to people who use cable, satellite or Freeview, provides national, local and international news, plus sport, weather and much else besides,” said Steve Hermann, editor of the BBC News website.'"
Where am I supposed to go now if I want to find cheap flights abroard!?!?
Yeah, I've had enough with all this pro-London bias on Slashdot. How about some US news for a change?
A pal from school had a stereo tv in the early 80's - despite no stereo broadcasts!
It also had a thermal printer that could print out ceefax pages...
He also had an Atari 2600 - According to my mum he had no sister, but I did - apparently this made me better off...
Yes it is, it means the other 2/3 don't have to put up with a load of shandy-drinking wankers.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
The submitter probably thought it was something to do with censorship.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
...our national sport...
What sport would that be? Binge drinking?
Geek runner, motorcyclist and professional know-it-all
Yeah, I've had enough with all this pro-London bias on Slashdot. How about some US news for a change?
What, London's not in the US?
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
The submitter probably thought it was something to do with censorship.
"And so, with the brutal government closure of Ceefax, another glimmer of freedom in the darkness of British oppression fades away, and the UK moves inexorably towards Orwell's 1984. The question is, if the Limeys had the right to bear arms, would the Socialist government of David Cameronski dare to push their totalitarian surveillance vision so far? What do slashdotters think?"
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
You don't understand. Everyone in the UK either lives in London, or wishes they did, or is terribly fascinated by everything that happens there. That's because it's an paradise of exciting people and streets paved with gold.
Isn't London also having some kind of sporting event this summer? Why don't we ever hear more about that?