Why are some of the text services on Freeview on separate channels?
This is probably largely for historical and legal reasons, although in some cases it may be for technical reasons such a lack of available bandwidth on a particular multiplex. Increasingly, text services on Freeview can now be accessed from normal television channels, with the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky now providing this facility.
Related Questions
- Why are the designs of the text services on Freeview so inconsistent, for example in their different meanings for the coloured buttons, and the means of selecting next and previous sub-pages?
- Why don the text services on Freeview have as much information as their corresponding services on analogue television, and why is the information often updated long after that on analogue?
- Why are some of the text services on Freeview on separate channels?
