microtel Teletext

For the microtel project1 I used my once in a lifetime chance to create teletext2 pages for the Netherland TV staion NOS. They were broadcasted between 2006-01-26 and 2006-02-05.

Transmission technology and data format have a strong influence on teletext motives and picture composition. To change between text, graphics and different foreground and background colors, control characters are used. These characters are not neccessarily invisible and always take the space of one letter, so arbitrary colors and pixels aren’t possible on all places of the screen. This screenshot shot shows the the Freudenstadt image in the Cebra teletext editor with control characters visible.

big up Lektrolab!! ↩
… also known as “Ceephax” in the UK or “Videotext” in Germany ↩

MESSAGE FROM THE FUTURE

2012-10-28

The images on this page are screenshots from the Teletext editing software Cebra Text for Windows. When broadcasted, Teletext images render dependent on the character set that is built into the TV.

Looking through some old emails, I found all but one source file for these pictures. Download them by clicking on the diskettes!!