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Rhyming Obituary · 14-03-2007, 10:21

There are three different major kinds of remote, some with some variations in and of itself.

Black (usually in bromley areas for PACE boxes - north west, london etc).

Blue/Purple - Langley as standard for pace and samsung boxes, samsung boxes in bromley. This type has a couple of different iterations, the older kind with simple arrow buttons around the select button (this one I beleive has a text button) and the newer one where these buttons have play, fastforward/rewind etc. The latter has no teletext button.

Silver remote - PVR boxes (no text button)

There are currently no plans to provide teltext over the digital feed that I am aware of. This is because it is generally held that teletext is in the process of being taken over by interactive DTV services (even though afaik, teletext has more content than interactive). Further, with the loss of the analogue signal for terrestrial TV in what, 2012? I don't see it being introduced.

You can get teletext by using the RF cable from the back of the box to the TV - this will give you signal from the analogue feed if available (sometimes it has problems). Further, certain models of TV can take analogue signal from scart input too, so I've been told, but I've never seen this to substantiate it myself.

If you do setup teletext in any way with the DTV service though, Virgin cannot support it, if you call in, you may get some advice, but you won't get a technician.

Hope that helps.

14-03-2007, 10:21	#11
Rhyming Obituary Inactive Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: In a hole somewhere... Services: 1 X PVR 1 X Samsung 2110c Cable Modem Telco Line Posts: 92	Re: Digi-Text (Teletext) ? There are three different major kinds of remote, some with some variations in and of itself. Black (usually in bromley areas for PACE boxes - north west, london etc). Blue/Purple - Langley as standard for pace and samsung boxes, samsung boxes in bromley. This type has a couple of different iterations, the older kind with simple arrow buttons around the select button (this one I beleive has a text button) and the newer one where these buttons have play, fastforward/rewind etc. The latter has no teletext button. Silver remote - PVR boxes (no text button) There are currently no plans to provide teltext over the digital feed that I am aware of. This is because it is generally held that teletext is in the process of being taken over by interactive DTV services (even though afaik, teletext has more content than interactive). Further, with the loss of the analogue signal for terrestrial TV in what, 2012? I don't see it being introduced. You can get teletext by using the RF cable from the back of the box to the TV - this will give you signal from the analogue feed if available (sometimes it has problems). Further, certain models of TV can take analogue signal from scart input too, so I've been told, but I've never seen this to substantiate it myself. If you do setup teletext in any way with the DTV service though, Virgin cannot support it, if you call in, you may get some advice, but you won't get a technician. Hope that helps.