Nathan Dane
@nmsni.co.uk
Broadcast engineer
Creator of https://nmsceefax.co.uk
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Creator of https://nmsceefax.co.uk
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Nathan Dane
@nmsni.co.uk
· Oct 3
Pages from Ceefax
YouTube video by Nathan Dane
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Both forms of Ceefax are up at the moment. Let's see how long that lasts.
www.youtube.com/@AvroVulcanX...
nmsceefax.co.uk
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December 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Obligatory ~annual photo of Pages From Ceefax central control
December 20, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Obligatory ~annual photo of Pages From Ceefax central control
Grumpy PC is now in control
Just a reminder that Pages From Ceefax goes all Christmassy with suitably festive music tonight at ten o'clock (GMT).
Assuming of course I can persuade my PC to boot. It's like an old diesel engine & needs thoroughly warmed up to have a hope of working.
youtube.com/@AvroVulcanXH607/live
Assuming of course I can persuade my PC to boot. It's like an old diesel engine & needs thoroughly warmed up to have a hope of working.
youtube.com/@AvroVulcanXH607/live
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December 20, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Grumpy PC is now in control
Just a reminder that Pages From Ceefax goes all Christmassy with suitably festive music tonight at ten o'clock (GMT).
Assuming of course I can persuade my PC to boot. It's like an old diesel engine & needs thoroughly warmed up to have a hope of working.
youtube.com/@AvroVulcanXH607/live
Assuming of course I can persuade my PC to boot. It's like an old diesel engine & needs thoroughly warmed up to have a hope of working.
youtube.com/@AvroVulcanXH607/live
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December 20, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Just a reminder that Pages From Ceefax goes all Christmassy with suitably festive music tonight at ten o'clock (GMT).
Assuming of course I can persuade my PC to boot. It's like an old diesel engine & needs thoroughly warmed up to have a hope of working.
youtube.com/@AvroVulcanXH607/live
Assuming of course I can persuade my PC to boot. It's like an old diesel engine & needs thoroughly warmed up to have a hope of working.
youtube.com/@AvroVulcanXH607/live
Just had a brief scroll through X for the first time in months. Folks, I think we collectively made the right decision.
December 14, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Just had a brief scroll through X for the first time in months. Folks, I think we collectively made the right decision.
I got to thinking last night, as one does, about why lately I don't seem to have accomplished anything on the two million projects I have going - and suddenly realised how utterly rediculous my own thought process is.
www.nathanmediaservices.co.uk/blether/deci...
www.nathanmediaservices.co.uk/blether/deci...
Decision Paralysis
The horrors of the decision paralysis demon
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December 10, 2025 at 5:19 AM
I got to thinking last night, as one does, about why lately I don't seem to have accomplished anything on the two million projects I have going - and suddenly realised how utterly rediculous my own thought process is.
www.nathanmediaservices.co.uk/blether/deci...
www.nathanmediaservices.co.uk/blether/deci...
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It's still a work in progress, but seems stable enough for "public beta", so by popular demand here's a standalone version of the parametric clock generator I recently added to my online teletext viewer:
zxnet.co.uk/clock/#templ...
zxnet.co.uk/clock/#templ...
December 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
It's still a work in progress, but seems stable enough for "public beta", so by popular demand here's a standalone version of the parametric clock generator I recently added to my online teletext viewer:
zxnet.co.uk/clock/#templ...
zxnet.co.uk/clock/#templ...
This is the innards of an MPEG-2 coder - the sort one might use to encode video for freeview/freesat.
Or at least, may have done 10 years ago - this one was made in 2008 and has since been retired.
Rather interesting & rare chance to get a poke inside at what makes it tick.
Or at least, may have done 10 years ago - this one was made in 2008 and has since been retired.
Rather interesting & rare chance to get a poke inside at what makes it tick.
December 1, 2025 at 12:20 PM
This is the innards of an MPEG-2 coder - the sort one might use to encode video for freeview/freesat.
Or at least, may have done 10 years ago - this one was made in 2008 and has since been retired.
Rather interesting & rare chance to get a poke inside at what makes it tick.
Or at least, may have done 10 years ago - this one was made in 2008 and has since been retired.
Rather interesting & rare chance to get a poke inside at what makes it tick.
More exact timing details will be released closer to the time.
Most likely 5 minutes before it goes live...
Most likely 5 minutes before it goes live...
Pages from Ceefax will begin its annual Christmas Tape outing on the 20th of December - continuing until the 3rd of January.
Thanks for your continued support, and I hope regular listeners will enjoy.
www.youtube.com/@AvroVulcanX...
Thanks for your continued support, and I hope regular listeners will enjoy.
www.youtube.com/@AvroVulcanX...
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December 1, 2025 at 8:27 AM
More exact timing details will be released closer to the time.
Most likely 5 minutes before it goes live...
Most likely 5 minutes before it goes live...
Pages from Ceefax will begin its annual Christmas Tape outing on the 20th of December - continuing until the 3rd of January.
Thanks for your continued support, and I hope regular listeners will enjoy.
www.youtube.com/@AvroVulcanX...
Thanks for your continued support, and I hope regular listeners will enjoy.
www.youtube.com/@AvroVulcanX...
YouTube
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December 1, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Pages from Ceefax will begin its annual Christmas Tape outing on the 20th of December - continuing until the 3rd of January.
Thanks for your continued support, and I hope regular listeners will enjoy.
www.youtube.com/@AvroVulcanX...
Thanks for your continued support, and I hope regular listeners will enjoy.
www.youtube.com/@AvroVulcanX...
Reposted by Nathan Dane
I spent today extracting image data from some interesting eprom dumps...
Figuring out the fairly simple addressing, and shuffling everything around and recombining into a single file that could be decoded as a YUV video frame. 🙂
Figuring out the fairly simple addressing, and shuffling everything around and recombining into a single file that could be decoded as a YUV video frame. 🙂
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I spent today extracting image data from some interesting eprom dumps...
Figuring out the fairly simple addressing, and shuffling everything around and recombining into a single file that could be decoded as a YUV video frame. 🙂
Figuring out the fairly simple addressing, and shuffling everything around and recombining into a single file that could be decoded as a YUV video frame. 🙂
It's cold outside, but not to worry - I'll fire me clock up for heat.
November 24, 2025 at 10:42 AM
It's cold outside, but not to worry - I'll fire me clock up for heat.
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Ceefax used to be a big source of news for me before I had a laptop and internet access (and wayyyy before I had a smartphone)
so this really takes me back 😅
nmsceefax.co.uk by @nmsni.co.uk
so this really takes me back 😅
nmsceefax.co.uk by @nmsni.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Ceefax used to be a big source of news for me before I had a laptop and internet access (and wayyyy before I had a smartphone)
so this really takes me back 😅
nmsceefax.co.uk by @nmsni.co.uk
so this really takes me back 😅
nmsceefax.co.uk by @nmsni.co.uk
yet another reminder of what we miss from old(er) YouTube.
Still shamelessly rewatching these occasionally.
Still shamelessly rewatching these occasionally.
The problem with aging is that past projects start having decade anniversaries.
It's now a decade since our first Park Bench video! And no, there will not be a reunion episode.
youtu.be/Fl-TnkmhTOM?si=f72Jk...
It's now a decade since our first Park Bench video! And no, there will not be a reunion episode.
youtu.be/Fl-TnkmhTOM?si=f72Jk...
Welcome to Matt and Tom's Park Bench
MATT: http://youtube.com/unnamedculprit
TOM: http://youtube.com/TomScottGo
Welcome to the Park Bench! This is where we'll put behind-the-scenes videos, interviews, answer questions, and... well, whatever you suggest in the comments, really.
The show'll start properly in December. What should we do next?
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
yet another reminder of what we miss from old(er) YouTube.
Still shamelessly rewatching these occasionally.
Still shamelessly rewatching these occasionally.
So yeah, third major cloud provider to mess up in 2 months.
I say again... Why aren't YOU self-hosting?
I say again... Why aren't YOU self-hosting?
November 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
So yeah, third major cloud provider to mess up in 2 months.
I say again... Why aren't YOU self-hosting?
I say again... Why aren't YOU self-hosting?
I'm getting tired of saying this, but in times of global "someone else's computer" outages, Ceefax remains online from a noisy server in someone's attic.
nmsceefax.co.uk
nmsceefax.co.uk
NMS Ceefax
An up-to-date version of the BBC's teletext service, Ceefax.
Nmsceefax.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I'm getting tired of saying this, but in times of global "someone else's computer" outages, Ceefax remains online from a noisy server in someone's attic.
nmsceefax.co.uk
nmsceefax.co.uk
I have designed some SDI receivers to continue my Interference With Video Via FPGA.
Turns out anything involving SDI is annoyingly Expensive, but anyway...
Turns out anything involving SDI is annoyingly Expensive, but anyway...
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I have designed some SDI receivers to continue my Interference With Video Via FPGA.
Turns out anything involving SDI is annoyingly Expensive, but anyway...
Turns out anything involving SDI is annoyingly Expensive, but anyway...
Another massive "cloud" (someone else's PC) outage. Ceefax still unaffected. Why aren't YOU self-hosting things yet?
October 29, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Another massive "cloud" (someone else's PC) outage. Ceefax still unaffected. Why aren't YOU self-hosting things yet?
Apparently JLCPCB send you the X-Rays of PCBs assembled with BGA chips. Rather cool. You can see the innards of the chip if you look closely. Please ignore how much my PCB designery sucks.
October 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Apparently JLCPCB send you the X-Rays of PCBs assembled with BGA chips. Rather cool. You can see the innards of the chip if you look closely. Please ignore how much my PCB designery sucks.