services scan When I talked to the designer of the Mattel videotext system, I was confused and mentiioned this piggybacking on TV signals in the blank area, and he was kinda amused that I would confuse videotext with TELEtext. Videotext had dedicated phone numbers your system would ring up. Teletext was piggybacked on TV signals. He called videotext a precursor to the internet (and also stated that he doesn't use the 'net because you have to pay for things you want, and it's not got much useful on it anyway - I wonder how long since he's used it?!!) Cheers A