Unusual software carriers.

[Christian Corti]

On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Jos Dreesen / Marian Capel wrote:
> In addition to radio and teletext, there was also a TV program in Germany 
> that transmitted software by burying the data in the first few scanlines of 
> the videosignal.

The WDR Computerclub transmitted programs this way, this technique was 
called Videodat (later on commercialized as Channel Videodat). You 
could/needed to buy a Videodat decoder, you can find these occasionally on 
flea markets, but they are totally useless today.

> While the broadcast was running you would see a small box in the upperleft 
> corner where you could actually see the data go by.

I don't think so, the data was transmitted in the same manner as videotext 
signals.

Christian