Using Teletext

Teletext is an information system that displays text on your TV screen. Using the teletext control buttons you can view pages of information that are listed in the teletext index.

Please Note: No on screen display is available in text mode. The contrast, brightness and colour cannot be changed but the volume control is still available.

To enter Text mode

Please Note: Make sure the TV channel you are watching transmits teletext. If not NO TEXT sign will be shown on the screen.

Press the () button. The text page will appear, normally the index page.

To exit Text mode

Press the () button twice. The screen will return to the channel you were watching.

To select a page of text

Find the number of the page in the index and enter it using the Numeric buttons. The number of the page will appear in the top left hand corner of the screen.

The page counter will search for your page. When it finds it, the page will be displayed.

To move to the next page of text press the () button.

To move to the previous page press the () button.

To return to the index page press the () button.

TV/text mix

To view a TV programme whilst in text mode, press the () button. The text will be superimposed over the TV programme.

Press the () button again to return to the text page.

Page search whilst watching TV

In Text mode press the () button. The TV will return to TV mode with the text page number in the top left hand corner of the screen.

Enter the page number you want using the Numeric buttons.

The top line of the text page will appear whilst the text searches for your page. When the page is found the number will remain in the top left hand corner of the screen.

Press the () button to view your selected page of text.