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{{Tone|date=September 2021}} {{About|the Teletext-based magazine||Digitizer (disambiguation)}} {{italic title}} {{Infobox magazine | title = Digitiser | image_file = | image_caption = | founder = [[Paul Rose (writer)|Paul Rose]]<br>[[Tim Moore (writer)|Tim Moore]] | category = [[Video games]] | frequency = Daily (primarily) | format = [[Teletext]] | founded = 1 January 1993 | finaldate = 9 March 2003 | company = [[Teletext Ltd.]] | language = English | website = }} '''''Digitiser''''' was a [[video game]]s magazine that was broadcast on [[Teletext Ltd.|Teletext]] in the UK between 1993 and 2003. It originally billed itself as "The World's Only Daily Game Magazine".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Archived Pages :: Digitiser 1995-1998 |url=https://www.teletext.org.uk/index.php?cat=30_Archived-nbsp~Pages&page=41_Digitiser-nbsp~1995-1998&zoom=598 |access-date=2023-08-15 |website=Teletext Preservation Project}}</ref> The page was launched on 1 January 1993 on page 370 of the Teletext service on [[ITV (TV channel)|ITV]] before transferring over to [[Channel 4]] later that year. It was updated daily except on Sundays, apart from a nine-month period in 2002 when it went to three days a week, weekends and holidays. It was followed by up to 1.5 million viewers at its peak popularity. The magazine was notable for its surreal and risqué humour as well as its games coverage. Digitiser was advertised on the back of multiple issues of the multi-platform video game magazine Electric Brain. ''Digitiser'' was created by writers [[Paul Rose (writer)|Paul Rose]] and [[Tim Moore (writer)|Tim Moore]] who went by the pseudonyms Mr Biffo and Mr Hairs. They wrote it together for the first four years while Rose wrote more or less solo for the remaining six in a freelance capacity.
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