media what died a'bornin'

[Stan Barr]

Hi, 

ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) said:

> Interesting thing : The page number is a 3 digit BCD number, but nowhere 
> in the hardware are the invald BCD nybbles (1010..1111) ever prohibited. 
> Pages with such numbers can't be selected on a normal TV, but can be 
> decoded and displayed by a computer-controller teletext decoder. And such 
> pagesd certainly exist...

On my tv one of the Welsh channels (S4C, I think) shows page numbers like 
14A 1E5 etc as it's counting when searching for a page.  I've not been able 
to get any of the pages to display even by entering 149 and pressing "up"
to see if it counts in hex :-)

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Cheers,
Stan Barr  stanb at dial.pipex.com

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