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Transmitting in the blanking interval for broadcasting teletext

Open sijanec opened this issue 5 years ago • 8 comments

Hello! I am very amazed by your project and I've been wondering if it would be possible to transmit in the blanking interval and thus transmitting teletext? As per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext#Data_transmission, I see that it uses 296 bits per line for data transmission. Would it be possible to output 296 bits of data per line? I see you mention in the video that the resolution can get up to 232x220. Would that mean that there is not enough "pixels" to represent each bit? What about the lines? Since NTSC has 525 lines maximum and channel3 esp8266 broadcasts way less lines, would teletext even be achievable?

sijanec avatar Mar 28 '20 16:03 sijanec

It absolutely would be possible! The problem is I didn't have any TVs that supported teletext or closed captioning. You would need to modify the NTSC generation code, but it wouldn't be too hard to swap out the "do nothing" for "do something interesting"

cnlohr avatar May 03 '20 16:05 cnlohr

Thank you very much for the answer!

V V ned., 3. maj 2020 ob 18:28 je oseba CNLohr [email protected] napisala:

It absolutely would be possible! The problem is I didn't have any TVs that supported teletext or closed captioning. You would need to modify the NTSC generation code, but it wouldn't be too hard to swap out the "do nothing" for "do something interesting"

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sijanec avatar May 03 '20 20:05 sijanec

did you ever get teletext working? i would be interested in this..

luminxa avatar Jul 11 '20 01:07 luminxa

I realised I don't have teletext on my CRT TV so no, unfortunately I did not try to do it.

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did you ever get teletext working? i would be interested in this..

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sijanec avatar Jul 11 '20 17:07 sijanec

teletext require PAL right?

hasaranga avatar Jul 28 '20 11:07 hasaranga

although the implementation differs from analogue video format, ntsc versions have also been created.

see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext

On Tue, 28 Jul 2020, 13:52 Ruchira Hasaranga, [email protected] wrote:

teletext require PAL right?

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sijanec avatar Jul 29 '20 17:07 sijanec

I don't have any way to receive it so I can't write it. Sorry.

cnlohr avatar Aug 14 '20 09:08 cnlohr

I'd appreciate it if someone else did it though

cnlohr avatar Aug 14 '20 09:08 cnlohr