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<blockquote data-quote="mm1352000" data-source="post: 1144836" data-attributes="member: 82144">Aside: a few comments from an interested dev who has attempted to implement ATSC EPG support for TVE 3.5...I've heard of such an FCC requirement, but apparently a lot of channels ignore it or the data quality is not great. I was quite surprised to read Pat's comments and was wondering whether the better data came from the TVDB/IMDB lookup that EPGC does.Title is a mandatory field in the ATSC EPG format (&quot;PSIP&quot;) as well as XMLTV format.Not surprising. The ATSC EPG format does not have an episode name/title field. Only a title and generic text (which is usually a description, perhaps with other content stuffed into it). Season and episode number fields are also not defined in the format. Broadcasters could use custom descriptors to convey this information, but this seems unlikely since they don't have any integration with the TV or set-top-box manufacturers. In other words: they could broadcast the data, but the TVs and STBs wouldn't know it existed ...unless TV and STB manufacturers integrated support for the custom descriptors.That's my understanding too.Agreed.Zero-indexing is very common in code. It's not so strange for a developer. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Correct. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="mm1352000, post: 1144836, member: 82144"] Aside: a few comments from an interested dev who has attempted to implement ATSC EPG support for TVE 3.5... I've heard of such an FCC requirement, but apparently a lot of channels ignore it or the data quality is not great. I was quite surprised to read Pat's comments and was wondering whether the better data came from the TVDB/IMDB lookup that EPGC does. Title is a mandatory field in the ATSC EPG format ("PSIP") as well as XMLTV format. Not surprising. The ATSC EPG format does not have an episode name/title field. Only a title and generic text (which is usually a description, perhaps with other content stuffed into it). Season and episode number fields are also not defined in the format. Broadcasters [I]could[/I] use custom descriptors to convey this information, but this seems unlikely since they don't have any integration with the TV or set-top-box manufacturers. In other words: they could broadcast the data, but the TVs and STBs wouldn't know it existed ...unless TV and STB manufacturers integrated support for the custom descriptors. That's my understanding too. Agreed. Zero-indexing is very common in code. It's not so strange for a developer. :) Correct. :) [/QUOTE]

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