Comment by mhd

I remember when TVs had special features regarding teletext, like some sort of page cache where you didn't need to wait for pages to load. Weirdly enough, contemporary TVs don't do this, despite memory and parallel processing power for this not being an issue. Or maybe I'm just remembering this as working better than it did…

If your TV/VCR had this and ShowView/VCR Plus, you were riding the knife edge of the future…