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Software to recover teletext data from VHS recordings.

Language: Python

NTSC encoding/decoding in C89 using only integers and fixed point math | Dec 2022
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You might find this interesting: https://github.com/ali1234/vhs-teletext
Teletext Archive – open repository for teletext recoverers | Dec 2021
How does one "recover" teletext data, you may wonder.

Apparently, there is software for extracting teletext signal recorded on VHS tapes with the help of a video capture hardware: https://github.com/ali1234/vhs-teletext

What amazingly strange hobbies people have!

Archivists are uploading hundreds of random VHS tapes to the internet | Feb 2020
Related: rescuing historic teletext pages from VHS recordings of broadcast TV: https://github.com/ali1234/vhs-teletext
Marion Stokes: A woman who taped 30 years of TV news | May 2019
Would be interesting to know if those tapes have Teletext info which can also be recovered, as well as the news video:

  https://github.com/ali1234/vhs-teletext/
(Not sure whether this works in the US, as I'm in the UK)
A Woman Who Preserved over 30 Years of TV History | Apr 2019
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Specifically for teletext (so, in general, PAL territories only), you can use this: https://github.com/ali1234/vhs-teletext