teletext
teletext
Definition
tele·text (tel′ə tekst′)
noun
a communications service in which information, as news, is superimposed onto a television signal and broadcast to home television sets
teletext
Usage Examples
Preposition: on
- channel: Apparently there are plans to get rid of teletext on the digital channels.
Adjective modifier
- digital: The digital teletext is inferiour to to analog IMO, half the pages you want are missing from the digital service.
Converse of object
- talk: Talking teletext A machine which converts teletext from television into speech.
- put: After a few pints they wonder how the game is going, so they get the landlord to put the teletext on.
- receive: You can also receive analog teletext on your PC screen!
- get: Now you can get Teletext wherever you are - thanks to our new Mobile Web service.
- use: Another method of electronic external communication would be using teletext on the television.
- include: You will be amazed how such a small stick allows you to access free digital TV and radio signals including teletext wherever you are.
Modifies a noun
- decoder: These BBC Prime pages from March 2000 were decoded by Bryan Greene using the teletext decoder in his MAC receiver.
- subtitle: Even the now common provision of Teletext subtitles does not greatly help: for many deaf people, their first language is sign language.
- adaptor: Hey - I caught you out Chris, you did NOT have that teletext adaptor I asked about in stock.
- receiver: The Ground Control teletext receiver is assumed to have come in three variants.
- adapter: BBC Micro teletext adapter systems feature in a special Micro User mail order offer on Page 121.
- television: Try it on any teletext television - an initial zero will be changed to an eight.
Possessives
- service: Your complete guide to Teletext's services, including where to find those page numbers.
Noun used with modifier
- analog: You can also receive analog teletext on your PC screen!
- TV: As with Teletext it includes a system of three digit page numbers as used on analog TV teletext.
- color: Swallow: The cottage sleeps 2 and comprises: Sitting room with color teletext television, video recorder and open fire.
- control: All our rooms have remote control teletext TV's, radio alarm clocks and tea and coffee facilities.
- broadcast: In September 1974, on the eve of a General Election, the Government authorized the start of a 2-year experiment of broadcast teletext.
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