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Using Teletext 13
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Chapter 13
Using Teletext
Using the Teletext functions
What is Teletext?
Teletext broadcasts pages of information and entertainment to
specially equipped television sets. Your plasma television receives
Teletext signals broadcast by TV networks, and decodes them into
graphical format for viewing. News, weather and sports
information, stock exchange prices and programme previews are
among many services available.
Important
• Displaying Teletext pages for a long period of time, or for
shorter periods of time everyday, may result in image retention.
Operating the Teletext basics for analogue
TV or external input sources
Turning on and off Teletext
1 Select a TV channel or external input source providing a
Teletext programme.
2 Press m to display the Teletext (full screen).
3 Press m again to display the Teletext on the right screen
and normal image on the left screen.
• Each time you press m , the screen switches as shown to the
left.
• If you select a programme with no Teletext signal, “Cannot
display Teletext.” appears.
Selecting and operating Teletext pages
Use the following remote control buttons to select and operate
Teletext pages.
Colour (RED / GREEN / YELLOW / BLUE):
You can select a group or block of pages displayed in the coloured
brackets at the bottom of the screen by pressing the corresponding
colour (
RED / GREEN / YELLOW / BLUE) on the remote control unit.
0 to 9:
Directly select any page from 100 to 899 by using 0 to 9.
w / x :
Press w to increase the page number.
Press x to decrease the page number.
k :
To display hidden information such as an answer to a quiz, press
k .
Press k again to hide the information.
:
To stop updating Teletext pages, press .
Press again to release the hold mode.
l :
Displays an Index page for the CEEFAX/FLOF format. Displays a
TOP Over View page for the TOP format.
Note
• Before displaying the Teletext, return the screen to the single-
screen mode.
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