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Radio Times Extra is a means of extending
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into the medium of digital programme guides provided by Inview Technology. It offers full television listings and synopses forward 14 days, as well as editorialised selections include 'pick of the day'.


History

Radio Times Extra has been installed on certain
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box models through an ' over-air download', but some makers installing the service on new boxes that can be bought in the shops. As of January 2011, Radio Times Extra has been installed on 3.8 million Freeview
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es in the United Kingdom from 21 different manufacturers spanning 37 receivers. The service was originally built by
Teletext Ltd Teletext Ltd was the provider of teletext and digital interactive services for ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 in the United Kingdom. Origins ''Teletext Ltd'' started providing teletext services for ITV and Channel 4 on 1 January 1993, replac ...
in collaboration with Inview Technology. In a deal between
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and Inview Technology, Teletext Extra was relaunched as Radio Times Extra on 31 January 2011, with editorial content from the ''
Radio Times ''Radio Times'' is a British weekly listings magazine devoted to television and radio programme schedules, with other features such as interviews, film reviews and lifestyle items. Founded in September 1923 by John Reith, then general manage ...
''.


Usage

Radio Times Extra provides users with an Electronic Programme Guide (EPG) carrying 14 days of television listings including programme information. You can access the EPG from any Freeview channel by going to your digital
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and pressing the 'TV Guide' button, when using a Radio Times Extra-compatible Freeview receiver. A small window on the EPG continues to display video from the channel you were on. If you press the 'Text' button on your digital remote while viewing the EPG, you are taken to a digital teletext service with information such as news, sport,
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, travel, weather, entertainment and
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. Teletext Extra had more content than Teletext Ltd's digital services on ITV and
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and carried high-resolution images with top stories.


Criticism

The software has been installed on some set-top boxes which did not originally include it, by over-the-air updates without the consent of the owners allow the software to be disabled. However, the software disrupts the proper functioning of some older set-top boxes even when disabled. From the set-top box owners viewpoint therefore Radio Times Extra has similar characteristics to unwanted
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and
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es.


See also

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Television in the United Kingdom Television broadcaster, Television broadcasts in the United Kingdom began in 1932, however, regular broadcasts would only begin four years later. Television began as a public service which was free of advertising, which followed the Mechanica ...
*
Digital television in the United Kingdom There are four major forms of digital television (DTV) broadcast in the United Kingdom: a direct-to-home satellite service from the Astra 28.2°E satellites provided by Sky UK, a cable television service provided by Virgin Media (known as Virg ...
* 4TVInteractive *
Ceefax Ceefax () was the world's first teletext information service and a forerunner to the current BBC Red Button service. Ceefax was started by the BBC in 1974 and ended, after 38 years of broadcasting, at 23:32:19 BST (11:32 PM BST) on 23 October ...
*
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*
Teletext Teletext, or broadcast teletext, is a standard for displaying text and rudimentary graphics on suitably equipped television sets. Teletext sends data in the broadcast signal, hidden in the invisible vertical blanking interval area at the to ...


References


External links


Radio Times Extra

Radio Times

Inview Technology
Digital television in the United Kingdom Freeview (UK) {{UK-company-stub