While I'm currently in nostalgia mode, I thought it would be best to review something that everyone has come across in their lives, and something which is still around, still being updated but also being phased out as new technology takes over. Ceefax is a service, which carries itself on the back of BBC analogue television signals and provides information such as news, sport, weather and financial information. It scrolls the pages on a cycle so for example if you choose page 174 and it is on 100, you have to wait a couple of seconds until it cycles to the page you want. Generally, it occasionally shows up in the early hours of the morning on BBC2 with some ...  Read the complete review

35 years since it was first broadcast and Ceefax is still one of the best ways to get the latest news, sports and weather where you live. Yeah it may be show to load sometimes (especially if your TV doesn't have Fastext), but it's incredibly easy to get the information you desire. For me personally, this is usually the latest football news and league tables, which are updated almost instantly on a Saturday afternoon - the latest scores feature is incredibly handy if you can't watch Soccer Saturday. Sure, there's not as much information on Ceefax as there is on the Internet, but sometimes you don't wanna have to get up and switch your computer on - ...  Read the complete review

Ceefax is a text based service provided by the BBC. It first began back in 1974, when just 30 pages were available for transmission. Over the years, this number has increased massively, and lots of information can now be found from the service. I first started using teletext and Ceefax back in the mid-eighties. In those days, there was no Internet or 24 hour news and sport channels, so Ceefax was by far the best way to get all of the latest information. You could access all of the big news stories, see all of the live sports scores and results, view all football league tables and even look at the weather forecasts. I used to spend hours on ...  Read the complete review

Ceefax is an information system which can be accessed by tuning to any of the BBC's analogue channels and pressing the 'text' button on the remote. The service was first 'broadcast' in 1974 when it only featured thirty pages. Nowadays it includes a wide variety of information, and still is my primary source for finding out sport results. The new digital text service is both quicker and more polished, but I prefer the old-skool version ten-fold. I know where everything is and although you have to wait for pages to change - it does everything I need it to. I suppose it's an example of 'if it's ain't broke then don't fix it'. I will be quite ...  Read the complete review

Back in the dark old days before the internet (hard to remember those days, how did people actually cope!!) and various satellite / cable channels, people used their televisions to find out about news/weather/sport. Teletext was a great service, and the BBC's teletext service was, and still is called 'Ceefax'. Just by keying in three numbers with your remote control you could access numerous pages of information for free, and it was bang up to date too! Any breaking news would be covered on the 'home page' (100) and then there would be more pages listing local news and World news. You get the usual high standard of journalism that you'd expect from ...  Read the complete review