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41402-nyan
a1ba@suya.place
Suddenly remembered a thing old Daewoo CRT TV had, which I used when I was a kid.
On it's TV remote it had a set of unnamed buttons, four of them were coloured, others didn't. They were doing absolutely nothing, except only one that turned the whole image black with a line that had same colors, ordered the same way they were on the remote. I think it was some kind of menu, but the feature itself was missing?
So... what was that?
On it's TV remote it had a set of unnamed buttons, four of them were coloured, others didn't. They were doing absolutely nothing, except only one that turned the whole image black with a line that had same colors, ordered the same way they were on the remote. I think it was some kind of menu, but the feature itself was missing?
So... what was that?
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kura@hai.z0ne.social
@a1ba teletext did provide 4 colored areas which could change pages. With the same colored buttons on the remote.
Maybe it was translucent teletext? Or the button activated subtitles / closed captions? Often provided through teletext.
At least in Germany.
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41402-nyan
a1ba@suya.place
@kura hm, that would explain. Maybe teletext wasn't provided on the cable TV. I don't remember if it did anything when connected to VHS or DVD player... or I never tried that.
Others in my family would rather prefer if I didn't touch these buttons because they didn't know what these do either and, sadly, weren't curious.
Others in my family would rather prefer if I didn't touch these buttons because they didn't know what these do either and, sadly, weren't curious.
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eal@post.ebin.club
@a1ba @kura @coaxial people in finland love teletext so much that many still read it with a phone app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teksti_tv_mobile&hl=en_US
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