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emeritus · 11th Jan 2019, 9:18 pm

SVHS and, I think Betamax, would reliably record teletext. My understanding is that this was never mentioned by the makers because it would have been incitement to infringe copyright in the content of the pages. There was a teletext page which advised users that copyright existed and copying the pages was illegal. This could be a factor in the scarcity of published info about how it could be done.

I did find I could sometimes recover poor quality teletext from tapes recoded on my first VCR ( a single-speed Mitsubishi B12), but success was random. Cheap tapes (Comet own brand) sometimes worked when more expensive ones didn't. I had no success playing the same tapes in other VCRs.

11th Jan 2019, 9:18 pm	#14
emeritus Dekatron Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Brentwood, Essex, UK. Posts: 5,339	Re: External Teletext Decoder. Is there such a thing? SVHS and, I think Betamax, would reliably record teletext. My understanding is that this was never mentioned by the makers because it would have been incitement to infringe copyright in the content of the pages. There was a teletext page which advised users that copyright existed and copying the pages was illegal. This could be a factor in the scarcity of published info about how it could be done. I did find I could sometimes recover poor quality teletext from tapes recoded on my first VCR ( a single-speed Mitsubishi B12), but success was random. Cheap tapes (Comet own brand) sometimes worked when more expensive ones didn't. I had no success playing the same tapes in other VCRs.