Another capture

Well, that ORACLE VBI set has been running for some time now, and frankly it was a bit disappointing - more data was coming in but the page quality wasn't improving any.

I suspect that this is down to the quality of the recording not being high enough - I found a better ORACLE recording from Saturday 15 Sep 1990 so the link below now points to the output of that.  It's a lot better!

http://teletext76.no-ip.org/ytv-19900915

See ORACLE progress

As my computer chugs away at the ORACLE data, I'll regularly (a few times a day) copy it into the website here so you can see how I'm getting on:

http://teletext76.no-ip.org/ytv-19900915

Back up and running

Cleaned the heads on my Betamax today, and we have a picture again!  I took a nice long grab of the tape to get the 1990 ORACLE data off.  That will keep my computer busy for a while.

In the meantime, here's a few pages from the Teletext 2005 grab I decoded whilst playing with Alistair's software.  The sub-pages with the most instances are the best quality ones.  Not bad, eh?

Some old ORACLE faithfuls...

Although the below has been recovered from only one pass, you can see enough to get the gist!  I'll do more passes later.  These have come from a 1990 Beta tape.

Home, sweet home

This was always one of my regular pages!

Alistair's code performs surprisingly well on a clock cracker.

 

 I hope this one improves with more passes!

Here's a strange one.  The header reads "5 Text", which would be impressive being as Channel Five was only a twinkle in the Government's eye in 1990 - this is because it's been matched by a header finder.  Whatever the header reads for this page, it must be vaguely similar to a 5 Text header.  I've since removed the 5 Text finder, so hopefully I might see what packet 0 actually says.