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Will you keep screens shots of the last bits of news and information entered - not just the goodbye screen?

It would be wonderful to have those published somewhere on the internet.

The simplicity of CEEFAX was key, I wish the same could be said for numerous websites. A sign of the times that we would wait patiently for a page to turnover now we complain that the red button is too slow.

RIP Ceefax. The new digital teletext service will never be the same as the Ceefax service on tv which is in most of us view better than the current digital. The digital age has killed one of the most loved features of the tv.

Thank you to all the Ceefax Team 1974-2012 and thank you too to the Red Button Digital Text Team for all their service too from the earliest days of digital television to future days.

Definitely the end of a technology generation with the departure of Ceefax... makes me feel old! Anyway, it's exciting to see the initiatives in place with the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Connected Studio ... in with the new!

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Sorry but ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Red Button needs a option to turn the video on/off and to have a letters page

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Does the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ imagine they have the sole rights to use the words Red and Buttons in the same sentence?



I salute the Oscar winning actor Red Buttons!

Gone, but not forgotten!

I have affectionate memories of Ceefax (despite being more of an Oracle man: Turner the Worm, Digitiser, the advent calendar, shirts for goalposts... ) Anyway thank you to all the people who worked on Ceefax over the years. The red button service never really caught on with me. Not quite the same. (Luckily this wonderful internet malarkey arrived at just the right time...)

Steve - Interesting post, and absolutely right to mark the end of what I believe was among the least 'flashy' yet best-loved ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ services. Also very fitting that the Plain English Campaign recognised the contribution of Ceefax; to do such a consistently excellent job of distilling often long and complex stories into short, clear summaries is perhaps its lasting legacy.

It's worth bearing in mind that there was no reason why Ceefax couldn't have continued on digital TV if the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ had wanted. The rest of Europe has retained its original analogue teletext services after digital switchover - it's only in the UK that the broadcasters got together and agreed that they didn't want to continue with teletext after switchover.

Twitter and Ceefax with their short bursts of information do have things in common; it's a good fit.
Never being fan of either, I feel bad for those that will miss the short-burst format, but I was never one.

@BlueBerry (12)

"Twitter and Ceefax with their short bursts of information do have things in common;"

Sounds like what they're trying to achieve with comments on these editors blogs these days. Having not posted here in a while, it was a shock to find we're allowed barely more than a Tweet now. Short-burst is apparently the new long-burst.

RIP Ceefax. Am with Gary Lineker on this: "The best way to watch Wimbledon is on Ceefax"

RIP indeed Ceefax... quite excited to see what new products ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ comes up with given the rapid pace of development in interactive TV and other redefining the news consumer experience.

@Michelle Summers - you may be excited about the new technology developments but some of us old fellas are really going to miss Ceefax - agree with Dunebasher (#11) -really don't see why ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ couldn't continue the service on the digital platform.

I hope Newswatch covers the Goodbye in its 26 October 2012 edition

A sad day indeed. In the early 1970's I worked in a TV design lab on the early TV sets designed to work with Ceefax.

I thought it a fitting tribute that the last piece of musical backing at the end of Ceefax was BART by the US band Ruby.