Owen Smith wrote: > Well overdue in this case. Red Button was overtaken many years ago by > the web, and never worked very well anyway. > > My dad used Teletext a lot to look things up and it worked well for him. > He never took to Red Button the same way, he claimed it didn't have what > he used to read on Teletext, and he only got that information back when > he went online and could get it on the web. > > On the few occasions I tried to use Red Button I found it incredibly > slow. Far slower than I remember Teletext being.
I still use teletext on Freeview channel 1 and pressing the "Text" button. It seems to be the same as it ever was with the same page numbers (340 for cricket etc.) but works reasonably quickly. TV has to have ethernet connection though. I found it easier to plough through the myriad of news and sports pages by having a structured view of only the pages I want to look at. I'm set in my ways in this respect but not to old to have some pi's and UPNP players around the house. Is this what you refer to as the red button service? *Music Store & VPN Server: *Synology DS215J NAS* Home Server/Study Player:* LMS 7.9.2 on Pi 3B piCorePlayer v5.0 Server/USB Audio, Topping VX2 Amplifier *Homeplug & LAN Players: *Squeezelite-X on 2x Windows 10 PC's, PiCorePlayer v5.0 /IQ Audio - 2 x Topping MX3 Amplifiers on RCA Stereo Console (built 1962), piCorePlayer v5.0/IQ Audio on Sennheiser RF Headphones *UPNP Wifi Player:* GGMM-E5 Portable *VPN Mobile & Car Player:* SqueezeControl/SqueezePlayer on Android Phone ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ian_heys's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2629 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109826 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
