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In the year 1975 the IRT conducted the first field test with Videotext, the German form of teletext, in cooperation with the BBC London and the IBA. Under the motto “Teletext in Bavaria” the new service was tested in a mountainous region and with a TV station in the VHF band I. Tests started previously with earlier forms of subtitle transmission in the blanking interval were discontinued after the success of.this field test. In 1978/1979 a measuring survey was carried out at over 1300 check points in select critical positions in the Federal Republic of Germany for all three television networks and in all frequency ranges as well as at 270 test points in cable systems. Since the results of the survey are still valid today, they are briefly summarized in the paper.
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Messerschmid, U. (1984). Videotext in the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Witte, E., Lämmle, W. (eds) Elektronische Textkommunikation in Deutschland und Japan / Electronic Text Communication in Germany and Japan. Telecommunications, vol 10. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82332-9_14
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