I was back at my parents house where they don't have freeview and my dad was playing Bamboozle - the quiz game. Surely the internet has totally taken over for most people?
2006-10-29 11:09:57 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television
no i don't bother with teletext, why should i when i have the internet?
2006-10-29 11:12:44 · answer #1 · answered by aholmes12003 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I use teletext on the various channels all the time, particularly during the adverts to check the latest news and sports results etc. I have never heard of the Bamboozle quiz.
2006-10-29 19:35:18 · answer #2 · answered by Whistler R 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its still the quickest way to check the football scores on a saturday afternoon. Typing '316' into ceefax is a lot quicker than booting up a PC or wading through six levels of menu on freeview. So, yes I still use it but only for a very few things,
2006-10-29 19:23:36 · answer #3 · answered by SteveNaive 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I use teletext 606 on BBC1 or 120 on ITV to check the programme listings.
2006-10-30 05:46:44 · answer #4 · answered by Nicola L 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a friend who is 86 on Thursday I've just showed her how to operate her new DVD player, but she draws the line at computers and prefers to watch teletext for weather etc
2006-10-29 19:14:21 · answer #5 · answered by Ann O 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bamboozle?? Is that still running? I thought that would be well gone.
I've not been on teletext since the late 90s!
2006-10-29 19:18:54 · answer #6 · answered by Andy H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think because technology has got fast and teletext is the equivilent of asking your granny to look something up in the t.v guide people find other means. text on sky means you can watch t.v. at the same time. But my dad still uses it to check whats going on in events and we still like Bamboozle.
2006-10-29 20:22:35 · answer #7 · answered by Kitty_Cat 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yeah Teletext!
Don't forget Ceefax too.
I use 'em both.
Like for the video games pages on C4.
I'm surprised they're still around.
2006-10-29 19:37:54 · answer #8 · answered by Jenny S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure i use teletext when watching tv and it gets a little boring, or during the ad's.
2006-10-29 19:18:17 · answer #9 · answered by ugly little hate machine 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its handy to quickly check the news, TV schedule, weather, soap storylines...especially when bottle-feeding the baby on one arm!
What is most annoying though is that quite often the pages have some kind of error which means that letters are missing in the text or replaced by punctuation marks so it looks like gobbledygook...grrrr.
2006-10-29 19:26:02 · answer #10 · answered by ladypeonie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A fair number of people still use TT to check travel / holiday bargains.
Often cheaper on TT than online.
2006-10-29 19:18:59 · answer #11 · answered by SuperWales 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋