24:09 "The Digitiser Show will not be like Found Footage, so put the sick buckets away" - tell that to Guru Larry, the poor sod.

I love how much work you put into your videos and how funny you are. I hope your channel becomes huge because you definitely deserve it.

Your intro song continues to bring me joy all these years later

This brings back memories. I distinctly recall all these pages being shown; it was always the weird characters which kept me coming back and appealed to my own sense of humour. Great stuff, Octav1us. I’m going through a lot more of your videos and have subscribed to the channel. All the best.

Absolutely mental! I can only imagine how much work it took to put this together. Take care and keep it up!

TAKE MY GOUJONS.

Love the new intro. The vocals are a lot easier to hear

Mr Biffo is awesome, unless he's messing with my bins..... said Mr T around 20 years ago.... For the uninitiated, here's a summary of Sir Paul of Rose aka Mr Biffo: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rose_(writer)

I used to come home from school and had a routine where I just checked all the pages I’d memorise. But saddest of all? If we couldn’t find out the football results on a weeknight? I’d be watching the never-quite-quick enough refresh of current scores. There’s nothing more exciting than watching a penalty shoot out via a text screen update lol

The fact that you had to explain what a CRT TV was makes me feel so old! Great stuff as always, looking forward to the new Digi show.

It was great being part of the Digitizer family back in the day. Loving your work all old skool gamers. Wanted to show you some appreciation Thank you

Congratulations Octav1us! - You have just won the internet with this fantastic video! - Where do you want it? - I need to be quick I'm double parked......

I discovered 'Found Footage' early 2018, I could'nt stop watching. It was so dark, bleak and hillarious all at the same time. I might have to watch it again. I loved Bamboozle. Thank you for the memories, Octavius.

What a fantastic invention it was - thanks Octav1us for showing it to a wider audience!

So happy for ya! Lovin the new theme too! Looking forward to see u on the digitizer show! great video and goodluck!

3:40 jeeze i had no clue they had this TV service as far back as frikkin 1974 that is crazy i woulda loved to have that during the 90s in Canada jeeze only with digital cable and crap did those sorts of things start popping up in TVs, its so amazing for back then i never had a clue that existed over there wow :P

What a great video. Can see a lot of time and effort went into this. Thanks for helping relive some happy memories. I spent far too long on digitise as a youth

You're gorgeous as always Octav1us !! 💜 Here in Italy teletext is still used on many tv channels. The reliability of Dvb transmission together with bigger memory buffers in modern tv sets make it faster compared to the early years of it.

Clearly remember playing Bamboozled but had forgotten about turner the worm. Awesome video as always Octav1us!

I love the video game related history lessons you provide. You really do your research. Great job!

and here in the us we got bumpkis. I'm glad I'm getting your older stuff recommended to me now. It's awesome to see where you came from!

OK so only just watched this ...very nearly had a hernia laughing ...its been a very crap month for me medically .. I need this type of silliness to stay sane ...THANKYOU

Educational, entertaining and mildly nauseating! Well done! I laughed, I learned!

I'm really impressed by your improved intro :) I'm so glad I ran into your videos and became a subscriber.

I start to understand that other channel I‘ve been binge watching all weekend.

This is one of the best videos i've seen this year. Hands down.

Wonderful as always.

Fantastic sense of humor...I love your jokes so much!

Recognised Nostalgia Nerd straight away - always a welcome addition!

Love your BG music choices. Every vid brings a flood of 80s and 90s gaming nostalgia. Shadow of the Beast and Lemmings particular highlights here.

That revamped intro theme is pretty damn good. I grew up reading Digi. Would read it before school and then when i was a working person I'd stay up late for when it switched over to the next days reviews. Always credited Digitiser and Red Dwarf as being the two biggest influences on my sense of humour. I say credited... blamed maybe? Those little bits you had between segments with the Speccy loading stuff... is that a new thing you're doing cos I like it. Neat little interstitial element for bringing up the next segment that.

Wow, you're editing skills are coming along so fast!

Whoah! I can't wait to see that show and see you and Guru Larry, holy cow! That's so awesome~!! Congratulations!

This is the video that started my journey down the rabbit hole ending in Digitiser Live.

Loved this. Thank you! 🌟

Decided to do a 5 year Anniversary channel marathon so here is my HI to try and make the algorithm be nice. Fun and great no matter how many times i have watched them.

Lovely video, makes me swell with warming nostalgic pride at what Digi has become 25 years on. If anyone’s curious or wants to relive some of the greatest moments, my site Super Page 58 archives a lot of material and info about Digi itself. Can’t wait for the show, I’m already a backer. See everyone at the live recording!

First time i watched a video of yours (well second if we wont count the video where you spoke about the copyright situation) And was extremely weirded out... Loved it!

I loved Bamboozle! Great editing on this one.

Good luck with the project!

I spent most of the time cheating on Bamboozled back in the day, if you went through the Fastext buttons quickly, you could see which was the right answer when the page number was different to the other three answers, made the game so easy... :P Don't really recall Digitiser myself though, but seeing the Teletext pages & pictures brings back the nostalgia... :D

Forgot about Digitiser, that was bloody hilarious on Teletext! I remember the weather report was described as 'Hot Or Cold Or Wet Or What?'

CRT TVs are awesome because of the physics going on inside of them. A "gun" fires a stream of electrons that pass between two pairs of deflection yokes, which are electromagnetic coils across the Y and X axes. By carefully adjusting the fields between the pairs, the electrons are aimed to pass through tiny holes in what's known as a shadow mask (in non-Trinitron TVs). Sony Trinitrons used a series of metal wires instead of a plate of metal, which gave them better definition on one axis (I think it was vertical) at the cost of extra weight. A 36" Trinitron weighed in at over 230lbs, with larger models topping out at over 400. I think I still have extra lines in my hands from moving these beasts with my dad as he ran a repair business. That hard plastic edge on the stand was atrociously painful when you were climbing up a flight of stairs. lol Anyway, by striking the tiny holes in the shadow mask at just the right angles, the electrons then pass out to strike the phosphorous coating on the glass, exciting the particles to light up in red, green, and blue at varying levels. These were way more interesting that LCD, Plasma, or LED TVs. Well, plasma was kinda neat because it's noble gases being electrocuted, and LCD untwists liquid crystal helices to allow a backlight to pass through....so LED is the most boring of all. :P

Was just about to write a comment about the Mr biffo segments were too hard to understand when I noticed the subtitles. Awesome video

Ok I subbed because of this. Damn good video, Octav1us.

Superb video Sarah. Really enjoyed that ☺

Good luck guys. If I have a job before the end of the KS I will definitely chip in. :)

I remember Digitiser. I read it every day ;) As for Bamboozle, when I was away from home I used to play over the telephone, with my wife at the TV reading the questions. Our phone bills weren't small ;)

9:40 Oh my god how dare you slip Lemmings into my mind subliminally. Only just got that tune out of my head from 1991

We had the Prodigy online service that gave us access to the internet. This is a damn awesome video. Had to have a ton ton of time. Makes me proud to be a Patreon.

I'm new to your channel. Decent content and well made videos! Your stuff reminds me of channel 4's late 90s/ early 2000's computer game show, 'Bits'. Used to love that show. Well done!

Somehow I'd actually forgot Digitiser was a thing until I saw this. I used to look at it everyday! Nostalgia overload!

Fantastic! I can't wait until Digitiser The Show :)

I discovered Teletext when I traveled to the UK in '96 and thought it was the coolest thing. It was like websites that didn't tie up the phone line, haha.

Crazy video fascinating trip down memory lane 😊

Love that you have the game music from the amiga version of dune on here...sooo adds to the subtext, get it.

Yep- starting to love this channel.

Great video! The only thing missing is the glorious Biffovision.

In Sweden it was called "Text-TV" and are used still today by many (elder). Love your channel BTW!

Wow this was one of your best videos. As a Yank, all this fancy pancy Mr. Biffo and Digitiser (sic) was News to Me but seems like something I Would Love. Just like I love you.

I was young enough to take ceefax for granted. It really was a worthwhile endeavour and made "smart TV" a reality before anyone had even heard of text messaging.

Ah good old Ceefax. I remember reading digitizer a great deal. They had an April fools story that Radiohead were making a game. I also had a pen pal I'd met on there named Sarah, we used to swap tapes with each other. She introduced me to smashing pumpkins and Ministry at the age of 12. Amazing.

I love that teletext is still kinda a thing. Btw. Great job on the video. Im loving the content! There was so much effort in the making of this video, so many nice cuts and animations. Great job! (This vid made me go through some teletext pages myself and find some teletext page gems. and if you excuse me now, I'll call a grandma from a teletext service to tell me a good night lullaby for 0,69€/min)

So many memories... 888 for subtitles...

I remember Mr T used to make regular appearances too, mostly complaining about the foxes around his bins. Good luck with the show btw. x Now if only someone could make a Planet Sound show...

We frequently updated teletext when we remembered we had things for sale there, or if we got a thump from the boss.

Great piece of work....

I loved the articles Mr Biffo used to write for EDGE magazine back in the 2000s. Had no idea of the magazine on teletext which is a shame as I am sure I would have really enjoyed it. My uncle always used to put those slow subtitles on with teletext which drove me frikkin insane as a kid which coupled with the slow speed of the service kinda put me off messing with it much. Great vid and look forward to the show.

This is some really awesome content

With all the work you put in you really should be getting more views.

OMG this intro after the song brings back MGS2 memories where colonel started glitching, lol 11:15 AND IT CONTINUES SO I FEEL LIKE RAIDEN, NAKED AND TIED TO A TURTURE RACK, at least Snake's got infinite ammo *points at the bandanna*

Loving the new intro!

Hmph, you've made me want teletext back. Enjoyed the video. Looking forward to digi the show, hope gossi the dog doesn't chase you though

I am glad this video back, I been looking for it for months @@ ty, now to find that mulan video

The teletext service were freaking awesome, in France, on France 2 every tuesday, there was a couple of page dedicated to SCIFI and Fantasy media. that was so cool :D

Bloody brilliant!

Moc-moc-a-moc.

Great stuff! But now I feel I didn't use Teletext to its full potential. I never knew half of this stuff existed!

Octav1us love you... and this music in the background from Amiga... Lemmings is the best. Best luck on your way... Kitten :*

Man Diary was one of the greatest comic inventions of the 90s. We used to talk and laugh about it at school as much as The Day Today etc.

Excellent video!

Fantastic video! I enjoyed all the little random Nostalgia Nerd pop up text alerts 😂 Well.. I enjoyed all of it really. Very well done and the kind of quirkiness I love! 😂😊 (+ Thank you for including me as a little cameo. If you ever need more silly voices, I'd be more than happy to assist 😋)

Wow, never seen a side loading vcr player like the one in your intro before! Haha, on first glance I thought it was a microwave!

That was fucking brilliant! All of it!

I loved Digitiser too! I also remember Jackie Swift and then John Earls on Planet Sound. They always had some pretty good retorts to people on the letters page called The Void. They took no prisoners either. I remember being with an ex-girlfriend on the day Teletext died in 2009. She didn't understand my sadness. We split up two years later but I should have known at the time it was never going to last!

I've always kinda wanted to see how Teletext works behind the scenes. As in who is putting it together, the graphics and whatnot.

That was Puuuuurfect

i remember back in the day using a tape recorder to tape the noise/game from teletext.

I have been waiting for Mr Biffo to come back to the official Digitiser IRC channel (irc.dal.net #DiGi) for 20 years now.. boohoohoo! I'm sure it'll be any day!

You keep me sane

Just perfect!

Awesome vid 👍

Awesome edit.

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You just reminded me of when I played a game on the red button. It was part of a CBBC competition where you played a maze game, it was pretty basic but I was pretty young. When I think about it, it was technically a predecessor of game streaming

My favourite character was Chester Fisho for the massive sexual innuendo they got away with for waaaay too long! In the end Teletext caught on and censored it. A lot! Also Mr T and his bins. Also snakes, usually appearing when you pressed the reveal button!

Takes me back to my first ever job which was a YTS doing computers and electronic engineering and in that was full Prestel and Ceefax modelling and design module and was quite cool as we used some serious hardware to model page definitions. Glad there is hope for single old gamers with lots of cats ;) Got six of 'em as I kinda went a bit dotty over 'em and like little children :D

Why is it that So few RetroTV/Retrogaming Nerds live in the Midlands? I'd kill to see a Central Cake when someone's talking about 80s/90s ITV!

Love the new intro.

That telly/vcr combo at the start. I want one.