Subject: Re: [stella] Closed Captioning revisited From: Chris Wilkson <ecwilkso@xxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 17:54:01 -0400 (EDT) |
Eckhard, Do you have the info on teletext for PAL systems? -Chris On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Eckhard Stolberg wrote: > > Glenn, on a slight tangent from this line of thinking I'm reminded of a > > recent trip to the UK. > > > > I was in a friends apartment, and played around with thier TV. It had a > > feature that the panasonic tv called "tv text" > > > > What is it? Is it an expansion of CC? Is this something we could make > > use off? > > Yes, closed captioning on PAL systems is realised with teletext > or videotext as it is called here in Germany. Basically the text > encoding works similar to the US CC system, but due to the fact > that the PAL version is supposed to handle a lot of other information > as well, it is using finer structures in the relevant scanlines. > The VCS is not capable of displaying these structures, so we won't > be able to use teletext in any of our games. > > BTW, since PAL TVs use teletext for CC, they won't be able to > decode US CC. Therefore PAL users won't be able to play any > of the games based on this system. > > > Ciao, Eckhard Stolberg > > > > - > Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ > Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/ > - Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/
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