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Will Mediacorpse die or go bankrupt if they continue to provide Teletext service?

laksaboy

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The danger of overly relying on the digital and online stuff is that when there is a blackout or if your grid shuts down, you are fucked.

For a country which supposedly preaches the virtues of readiness and Total Defence, not having something analog for information dissemination is just silly.

Also Teletext is good for checking flight arrival and departure times.
 

heliotrope

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Teletext was useful at a time when Internet/mobile surfing was not technically possible or too expensive for the masses. Not surprising to stop it now... surely old folks have mobile phones so that they remain contactable to their children? If so, they can check 4D/stocks/flight information ON THE GO, isn't that better? If your TV break down, then how right?
 

halsey02

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Maybe should bring back pagers n messaging pagers too. I really hated the pagers. Glad it got consigned to the trashbin of technological history.

Ahh!! miss those days of some numbskull calls you on the phone...when you were about to............!! " si mi lan car war eh pager"....and the reply would be?? hor G G !!c:biggrin:
 

halsey02

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The danger of overly relying on the digital and online stuff is that when there is a blackout or if your grid shuts down, you are fucked.

For a country which supposedly preaches the virtues of readiness and Total Defence, not having something analog for information dissemination is just silly.

Also Teletext is good for checking flight arrival and departure times.

Just say goodbye to teletext...the only use I have for it, was to check 4D TOTO results..& that is exasperating slow...the "wan bao" faster...hmmm!! & to monitor the stock prices...slow but useful..cannot afford Reuters! what!....but call my broker faster...!! but that was the only thing I use teletext...ever since we have the internet...forget about Teletext..was surprised it is still alive!!
 

The_Hypocrite

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The worse thing about pagers is some one page me,,and I in the train etc,,than by the time find public phone and call back,,that person has already left,,,crap invention

Ahh!! miss those days of some numbskull calls you on the phone...when you were about to............!! " si mi lan car war eh pager"....and the reply would be?? hor G G !!c:biggrin:
 

rushifa666

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our divide in knowledge is the greatest for the last gen and this. we are in two worlds. if your parents are not willing to learn like most they will literally understand nothing. does not help that simplification of tech is horrible here
 
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