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Old 11-22-2006, 02:58 PM
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Teletext on White Springs???

I was messing with my big dish today, and fixed an alignment problem apparently caused by a wind storm, and for the first time since last spring, I was able to tune in IA7 (that sat is blocked by trees in the summer).
Anyway, I tuned in the White Springs channel with TSREADER, and I notice that it has a teletext channel included in the package. I started up the Twinhan program, which has a teletext viewer, but nothing showed up. I recorded a minute or so of the teletext PID, and it does have data in the stream, but it just doesn't show up with the Twinhan program for some reason.
Anyway, I'm curious whether anyone has a receiver which displays the teletext included with this channel? It's been about 15 years since I've seen a channel in the US that had teletext on it. I used to have a teletext viewer, but there hasn't been anything to use it on for a long time.
Perhaps this is some other kind of data, and it's just labeled as teletext for some reason.
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I dunno, Bill.

But, thanks for inadvertently answering a question I've had since I bought my receiver: there is an icon that lights up only on White Sands--kind of a window with venetian blinds looking thing that is apparently the teletext icon (there's no mention in the Viewsat manual and nobody else seems to have figured out its meaning).

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I dunno, Bill.

But, thanks for inadvertently answering a question I've had since I bought my receiver: there is an icon that lights up only on White Sands--kind of a window with venetian blinds looking thing that is apparently the teletext icon (there's no mention in the Viewsat manual and nobody else seems to have figured out its meaning).

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Interesting. The Twinhan software supposedly does Teletext, however when I attempt to read the teletext off this signal, it just says something like "scanning for content" or something to that effect. Sort of like it detects that teletext is there, but isn't finding any content.
So I'm guessing that they have a stream of data of some sort, and have mis-labeled it as teletext, because there is definately a stream there.

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