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teletext: see videotex videotex, communications service that is linked to an adapted television receiver or a personal computer by telephone lines, cable television facilities, or the like, and that allows a user to retrieve and display alphanumeric and pictorial information at home.
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teletext
A broadcasting service that transmits text to a TV set that has a teletext decoder. It uses the vertical blanking interval of the TV signal (black line between frames when vertical hold is not adjusted) to transmit about a hundred frames. See videotex.
teletext [′tel·ə‚tekst]
(communications)
A data broadcasting service in which preprogrammed sequences of frames of data are broadcast cyclically, and a user equipped with a standard television receiver and a special decoder selects the desired frames of information for viewing.
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The group, which had intended to shut the service in 2012, said the closure decision followed indications from regulator Ofcom that it would not back state intervention to support the continuation of a public commercial Teletext service after 2014.
Teletext set to shut down by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
Coral stop C4 Teletext ads CORAL have become the first of the major bookmakers to stop advertising on the racing pages of Channel 4's Teletext.
BETTING BITES by The Racing Post (London, England)
Byline: Additional reporting by JANE BARRIE YOU will think twice about booking a holiday on Teletext when you read what happened to Robert and Janice Craig.
The Judge: GREAT TeLeTeXT HOLS DEBACLE; TV FIRM REFUSE TO HELP SCOTS ... by Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
 
 
 
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