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<blockquote data-quote="CyberSimian" data-source="post: 1250394" data-attributes="member: 141969">People who download the EPG from the internet usually do so once per day.&nbsp; The disadvantage of this is that TV Server misses changes to the schedule that occur within a few hours of broadcast.&nbsp; These changes might be:(1) Changes to the start or end times of the programme to be recorded (for example, due to an earlier programme such as live sport or a news bulletin overrunning), or (2) Changes to the programme description (for example, a generic description such as &quot;The Panorama team report on a story in the news&quot; changing to a specific description of the subject covered by the programme).In contrast, people who use the broadcast EPG can refresh the EPG as frequently as they wish, and thereby receive last-minute changes to the EPG.&nbsp; Although refreshing every 30 minutes is perhaps too frequent, refreshing every 12 hours may result in missing changes to the EPG that occur within a few hours of broadcast.&nbsp; So there is an optimum setting for the refresh interval somewhere between those two values.TV Server does allow the EPG to be grabbed while the tuners are in use for live TV or recording.&nbsp; This would be ideal for receiving last-minute changes to the EPG, but my experience using it was somewhat mixed -- there were occasions when the tuners seemed to become inaccessible one by one, for no obvious reason.&nbsp; Since I have stopped using that facility, tuner lockup has become much less common (and perhaps it is entirely due to an unreliable tuner driver rather than a bug in TV Server). -- from CyberSimian in the UK</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CyberSimian, post: 1250394, member: 141969"] People who [B]download the EPG from the internet[/B] usually do so once per day. The [i]disadvantage[/i] of this is that TV Server misses changes to the schedule that occur within a few hours of broadcast. These changes might be: (1) Changes to the start or end times of the programme to be recorded (for example, due to an earlier programme such as live sport or a news bulletin overrunning), or (2) Changes to the programme description (for example, a generic description such as "The [i]Panorama[/i] team report on a story in the news" changing to a specific description of the subject covered by the programme). In contrast, people who use the [B]broadcast EPG[/B] can refresh the EPG as frequently as they wish, and thereby receive last-minute changes to the EPG. Although refreshing every 30 minutes is perhaps too frequent, refreshing every 12 hours may result in missing changes to the EPG that occur within a few hours of broadcast. So there is an optimum setting for the refresh interval somewhere between those two values. TV Server does allow the EPG to be grabbed while the tuners are in use for live TV or recording. This would be ideal for receiving last-minute changes to the EPG, but my experience using it was somewhat mixed -- there were occasions when the tuners seemed to become inaccessible one by one, for no obvious reason. Since I have stopped using that facility, tuner lockup has become much less common (and perhaps it is entirely due to an unreliable tuner driver rather than a bug in TV Server). -- from CyberSimian in the UK [/QUOTE]

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