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Advanced functions

Teletext

The Teletext service is available in many countries under a variety of names (TOP Text, Fastext, FLOF text,Videotext). It is provided as a free service by television broadcasters.This service provides a real wealth of information, available at any time, on weather, sports results, news, games, etc.The information is presented in pages or organised in topics specified in colour on the screen and you can access this information by simply pressing the buttons of the relevant colour on the remote control.

Accessing Teletext

Press the TEXT button on the remote control.Teletext will display the last page selected, or if you have changed channel, the index page (usually 100). If the particular programme does not provide a Teletext service, a message will appear to this effect.

To display a page, enter its 3-digit number or use the PR+/PR- buttons.The page appears after a few moments.The entered number appears:

-red if the page number has not yet been found, -white if the page has been found,

-green when a sub-page has also been found for this page, -yellow when the page exists but has not been found yet.

If the current page includes subpages, the page number is displayed

in green. In this mode, pressing the buttons will allow you to step through all the available subpages.

You can select a specific subpage number by pressing 0 to enter subpage direct access mode.The display will look like this: 120 ----.

You can then enter the four digits of the sub-page number using the numeric buttons (e.g. 0003).

Navigator

The navigator, located on the left of the screen, provides access to the following functions:

Other Teletext functions

 

Subtitles

 

Some channels provide subtitles for some of their programmes.

 

The number of the relevant pages is specified on the Teletext

 

index page.

 

To display subtitles, enable the Teletext function, find the number of

 

the page displaying the subtitles and enter it. Once the relevant

 

page is found, the subtitles appear in the TV picture.The navigator

 

disappears after a couple of seconds.To display it again, press the

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purple (TEXT) button.

 

Direct access

 

 

The red, green, yellow, and blue buttons on the remote control

 

allow you to access directly those pages whose numbers are

 

displayed in the corresponding colours at the bottom of the

 

screen.

 

Fastext

 

Fastext displays a bar at the bottom of the page divided into four

 

coloured sections (red, green, yellow and blue), which provide links

 

to the topics you can access by pressing the relevant colour

 

button. Other topics accessible in the same way can also be

 

displayed.

 

TOPtext

 

TOPtext displays a bar at the bottom of the page divided into four

 

coloured sections (red, green, yellow, and blue).The red section

 

gives access to the previous available page, and the green section

 

to the next available page.The blue section displays a topic you can

 

access directly by pressing the blue button.The next topic will

 

then appear in the blue section.The yellow section displays an

 

article you can access directly by pressing the yellow button.The

 

next article will then appear in the yellow section.

 

Stop

Some information is spread over several subpages which will be displayed one after the other.To stop subpage scrolling, select STOP and press OK. Press OK to allow the information to move again.

Hidden answers

To reveal a hidden answer (for example, in games), select and press OK. Press OK once more to hide the answer again.

Zoom

Select and press OK: once to zoom in on the top part of the screen, twice to zoom in on the bottom part of the screen and three times to return to normal display.

Mixed display

Select and press the OK button to display Teletext in the right half of the screen.

Press the EXIT button to quit Teletext.

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Technicolor - Thomson ITC251 manual Accessing Teletext, Navigator, Other Teletext functions
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ITC251 specifications

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