Infonet sister companies, 8TV, TV9 and NTV7, are transmitting teletext. Infonet ceased operation from 1 January 2008. Therefore, there are now no TV stations transmitting Teletext in Malaysia. Infonet uses the BBC Ceefax teletext system. Infonet Infonet was a Malaysian teletext service. It was formerly known as Beriteks (a combination of the Malay word "Berita", meaning "news", and "Teks", which is a borrowed word from the English language meaning "text"). The teletext system was launched on 2 June 1985 by TV3. While RTM1 and RTM2 were still transmitting Teletext, the contents of the transmission were different from those offered by TV3's
Teletext to four lines a frame. While the basic teletext format has remained unchanged in more than 30 years, a number of improvements and additions have been made. A closely related service is the Video Program System (VPS), introduced in Germany in 1985. Like teletext, this signal is also broadcast in the vertical blanking interval. It consists only of 32 bits of data, primarily the date and time for which the broadcast of the currently running TV programme was originally scheduled. Video recorders can use this information (instead of a simple timer) in order to automatically record a scheduled programme, even