article about aus epg in the age today (1 Viewer)

[zombiepig]

There was an article in the Age today outlining the current situation with EPG's in australia. Definetly written from the pvr user's side in retaliation against ninemsn's latest tricks should be good for raising awareness of the need for a freely available epg though!!
here's a link to the article:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/bizte...ectronic-guides/2006/06/19/1150569266669.html

 

[Downzy]

Yeah, there seems to be a bit of media in regards to this topic recently. I was reading an article on the APC Magazine website (http://www.apcstart.com/site/dwarne/2006/05/99/a-third-of-us-tv-pirates-survey)

I thought this was an interesting quote given that Channel 9 seem to be trying very hard to stop anyone making data avaiable...


"In Australia, Channel 9 has been progressive in this respect though, recently unveiling a “catchup TV†download service for episodes of McLeod’s Daughters. Channel 9, is of course, part of the PBL, which is the media conglomerate that owns APC Magazine and is a stakeholder in NineMSN… but before you claim “Bias!â€, I’m not spruiking for 9 just because they’re in the same group.

They’re also one of the only TV stations in Australia to make a free electronic program guide available online… if other TV stations would stop being obstinate, Windows Media Center wouldn’t have been such a dismal failure in Australia and people could easily watch TV when it suited them without having to subscribe to a third party EPG like IceTV."


...very intersting indeed

Cheers,
Downzy

 

[zombiepig]

well that guy has done absolutely no research at all... right now channel 9 is the biggest enemy of a free epg. and abc is the only channel that has a REAL epg available (although not a very good one )

 

[Downzy]

Just had this link emailed to me. It's a petition to have EPG information made available.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/EPG_OZ/

Any Aussies out there who want freely available EPG data should take a look.

Cheers,
Downzy

 

[Marcusb]

heheh, I posted a comment at that APC site that was linked. I said something bad about McCleods Daughters (a VERY bad Aus TV show that is available for download) and as such my comment was removed.