Jamie Nemeth

A vase with roses, the base surrounded by pink-foil-wrapped heart-shaped chocolates, a card, and a gift bag.

Happy annivalentines to mum and dad 💜

Here's the link to the in-vision Pages From Ceefax I captured from videotape:
youtu.be/VKlRJ18tGNQ

Remember, Pages From Ceefax is still a thing in 2026 thanks to @nmsni.co.uk:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8OU...

#PagesFromCeefax #Ceefax #Teletext #VHS #History #Retro #Nostalgia

A square PC monitor, and a VCR with a PC keyboard on top of it. The monitor is showing a Linux Mint desktop, with OBS running and displaying a the video output from the VCR (Pages From Ceefax), and a terminal running teletext VBI capture.

Checked in on the latest tape going through the teletext recovery setup, and discovered I was capturing teletext from the VBI while teletext was also in-vision on Pages From Ceefax. Very meta.

(Yes, I'll rewind when it's done and capture that, too, before you ask.)

#VCR #Ceefax #Teletext

"The massive discount coupon we emailed you - that you haven't used and can't actually use on anything you've wanted to buy recently as it only applies to the things we stock and supply directly (which seems to only be about 10% of what's actually on our website) - is about to expire, hurry!"

🤔

A guardian headline reading “England and Wales brace for downpours with more than 200 active flood alerts” The headline is accompanied by a picture of a wet supermarket car park.

Why is nobody asking if “severe” rain is over diagnosed when it is part of natural weather variation? Instead of flood warnings, people should be helped to find dignity through labour with a compassionate approach to getting those in a temporarily submerged lifestyle back into the workforce.

Teletext page from Oracle on Channel 4, Friday 26th July 1991. The majority of the page is taken up with a Pixelated NFL logo. 4-Tel 4 Sports Fans US Football 471 American Bowl Preview 472 Coca-Cola 473 BNGL 475 BYAFA 476 Winners 479 Letters The official NFL teletext service Fastext links: NFL News, Sports Letters, Off-Air, Racing

Did you know there was an official #NFL #teletext service here in the UK (in 1991 at least)?

Even though this page is from late July, I still thought it was a nice coincidence that I recovered it from videotape in close proximity to this year's #SuperBowl.

www.jamienemeth.co.uk/teletext/vie...

That time I recreated the Simpsons intro using only stock footage.

So cool to see this being used out in the wild!

I know I attempted to write good instructions, but I was still a little bit worried that the tool only made any sense to me.

Huawei Honor 10 mobile phone, face down on a cutting mat, with back cover, cameras and motherboard removed. Next to it is a clear box with a replacement power and volume button set (circuit flex cable and physical buttons).

Huawei Honor 10 powered on and showing homepage icons.

I am now a mobile phone repairer (sort-of)!

The new power button set arrived from AliExpress, but the cameras, screen, battery, and antenna all had to be disconnected, and the motherboard entirely removed, in order to get to the buttons to replace them.

But my phone has survived the experience!

Using @jamienemeth.bsky.social's bamboozle generator, I have created 'bedriegd!' It's a quiz with general knowledge questions with 3 levels. It's on page 601 on bmn Bollentekst.

I'm so glad the commentators mentioned it, after it had been fixed...I wasn't sure if it was just a new way of doing things vs. a mistake, but I didn't like it!

YouTube video by Nathan Dane Pages from Ceefax

The Pages from Ceefax live stream has now been running for a full year - as of about 5pm (GMT).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8OU...

Screenshot of my Bamboozle Generator website/tool, open on the new 'wizards' tab, with four selectable options: blank (clear everything and start from scratch), Bamboozle! (a template based on classic Bamboozle, with 12 questions, and four wrong answer pages with bonus questions), Befuddle (a template based on the six-question TV and radio quiz featured on SPARK, TVARK's teletext service), and Starfleet Academy (a template based on the four-question Star-Trek-themed quiz featured on TrekkieText, part of Nemetext).

I said there'd be more wizards!

Teletext's Ten To One is next on my radar.

Are there any other Bamboozle-style quizzes you know of, that could be template-ized?

www.jamienemeth.co.uk/teletext/too...

#Teletext #Bamboozle @tvark.bsky.social #SPARK #StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy

In fact, in time, I'd like to do an LGR-style dream retro PC setup, incorporating my AverTV PCI capture card with infrared remote, that supported teletext, hooked into the whole-house UHF stuff.

Not sure why I didn't use it to view teletext more, back in the day. Maybe my aerial feed was too weak?

I added a new feature...wizards!

bsky.app/profile/jami...

It's still very hands-on...the tool is aimed at those who are already familiar with the basics of teletext creation and editing.

Making your own Bamboozle-style quiz manually is fun...once...after all that manual page linking, you might be put off doing it again. This tool automates some hurdles.

Screenshot of my Bamboozle Generator website/tool, open on the new 'wizards' tab, with two selectable options: blank (clear everything and start from scratch) or Bamboozle! (a template based on classic Bamboozle, with 12 questions, and four wrong answer pages with bonus questions).

I recently posted about my Bamboozle Generator, and how nothing new had been added to it in years.

That changed today...there are now wizards (and there will be more!)

#Teletext #Bamboozle

www.jamienemeth.co.uk/teletext/too...

Table of UHF frequencies and their corresponding digital DVB-T multiplex, analogue TV channel, and/or Teletext service, as assigned internally on my house aerial sockets using Raspberry Pis and UHF modulators, presented in the form of teletext on my Nemetext service (page 197). C21: BBC A (digital, Kilvey Hill) C22: ARQ A (digital, Kilvey Hill) C24: D3&4 (digital, Kilvey Hill) C25: SDN (digital, Kilvey Hill) C27: BBC B HD (digital, Kilvey Hill) C28: ARQ B (digital, Kilvey Hill) C31: BBC One Wales (analogue, internal), NMS Ceefax (teletext) C33: BBC A (digital, Pontardawe) C34: L-SWA (digital, Kilvey Hill) C36: D3&4 (digital, Pontardawe) C40: BBC B HD (digital, Alltwen) C43: BBC A (digital, Alltwen) C46: D3&4 (digital, Alltwen) C48: BBC B HD (digital, Pontardawe) C50: BBC Two Wales (analogue, internal), Teefax (teletext) C52: ITV1 Wales (analogue, internal), ChunkyText (teletext) C54: S4C (analogue, internal), SPARK (teletext) C56: 5 (analogue, internal), Webfax (teletext) C58: Channel 4 (analogue, internal), Webfax 2 (teletext) C60-69: unavailable (4G mobile)

Decided to add an engineering page to Nemetext, partly for amusement, partly to genuinely keep track of which frequencies to avoid when setting my UHF modulators so I don't get interference.

My internal analogue Raspberry Pi channels are coexisting happily with broadcast Freeview in all rooms 😊

Power and volume buttons from a Huawei Honor 10 mobile phone, on a piece of paper. There are two metal legs on each button, and tabs that stick out to depress the buttons on the circuit board. Two of the three tabs has bare metal where there should be a black covering, indicating that the tabs have worn away.

The £8 part arrived, and its purpose was to prove that the part it replaced wasn't where the fault lay 🤣

It spurred me on to extract the buttons, and now I can plainly see the issue (missing black nub).

Turns out I can buy replacement buttons AND the button pad flex for just £1.64 on AliExpress 😬

This tool takes in plain-text template files in the MRG Systems TTI format, and allows you to generate a collection of TTI files to form a quiz which can be uploaded to your own Teletext service.

If you wanted to create a Bamboozle quiz with questions about the museum itself...

Made this as a beta, didn't add anything new for at least two years, so decided to stop calling it a beta...

But if you can make head or tail of it, you're more than welcome!

www.jamienemeth.co.uk/teletext/too...

It's the CX88-based one, so from what you told me before, I know to expect those messages to be spurious.

And the recoveries were near-perfect, certainly the best I've ever achieved (someone else's tape, recorded in SP)

www.jamienemeth.co.uk/teletext/vie...

www.jamienemeth.co.uk/teletext/vie...

OK, I joined UpScrolled (jamienemeth). Already here and on Mastodon and Signal. What other Meta/X alternatives should I look into?

Trying to reduce the number of socials I'm on, but also recognising the need to be ahead of the shockwave if/when the big ones implode, and diversifying just in case.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

Oops. Ordered the wrong part (Honor 10 Lite vs. Honor 10, not Lite). The four motherboard contact pads are arranged in a completely different pattern/shape.

So now I'm waiting for an £8 part.

Huawei Honor 10 mobile phone, face down on a cutting mat, with back cover removed and partially disassembled, with the motherboard set aside, cameras and power/volume button pad strip removed. The battery and various ribbon cables are visible.

Finally plucked up the courage to try out the hot air station I bought in...*checks notes*...Feb 2024 😮

Getting this newfangled glued-on back off this old phone was disconcerting, but I did it. Now waiting for a £4 power/volume button replacement part.

If I pull this repair off, I'll be chuffed!

Just one more scan-read for luck, to check it still made sense, before firing it off, is all it would have taken...

Of course, AI might explain a lot of that nowadays...

A graphic of a yellow sticky note with the text 'The awkward moment when you really want to share a beautifully-crafted meme, but there's a glaring txpo.' Nemethsphere watermark.

Made this meme ten years ago. Still true.

Typos are forgivable. We're all human. It just baffles me how anyone could interact with the text in their graphic designs quite so much - font choice, colouration, shape, kerning, etc. - and still not notice that they'd missed entire words out sometimes.

In beta - the Teletext Archive Online Recovery Editor! Soon you'll be able to fix all those VHS errors you see in recoveries. It's therapeutic and addictive! There is an approval process in place to keep things right; a context menu for cut/copy/paste and editing attributes, and clip art library

I first noticed Boots doing it. Now Poundstretcher are joining in.

Which shops have you noticed following this trend?

I mean it's a no-brainer in some ways, yet not everyone does it!

Tall stack of shopping baskets in the middle of store shelves.

I'm very much a fan of baskets in the middle of the store. It's perfect for the thing we all do, which is to assume we definitely won't need a basket, then we subsequently realise halfway through our shop that we really should have picked up a basket, and bam, there they are, just when we need one!