Electronic Program Guides

See also: EPG

EPG ( Electronic Program Guides ) is a Anglo-Saxon Acronyme used in the field of the Télévision translates into French by electronic guide of program . The EPG is diffused with flow, in general on the channel of the Télétexte, and gives information on the television programs present and to come.

Initially, this application was defined for the analogical chains, but was extended to the numeric channels. There exist various programs making it possible to read flow EPG and to extract it for example with the format XMLTV, making the files usable by many HTPC. The format TV-anytime was especially defined by EBU to be a format of EPG, was based XML, interopérable and was directly readable by a HTPC or a PVR.

Applications

A EPG allows primarily, for the user, of:

to consult the television programs for the days to come (2 to 7 according to the chains)
to program a recording by simple selection of the program in the Guide
automatically to give a title to a recording, and to associate with it the card of description of the program
to easily seek programs according to various criteria

One finds mainly EPG on:

digital recorders on hard DVD or disks (DVR or PVR)
the HTPC or personal computers Home Theater

The most known formats

Gemstar GuidePlus+
NextView : Standard defined between 1995 and 1997 by ETSI under the references Nextview EPG (ETS 300.707) and (ETS 300.708)
TV-anytime: Standard defined by EBU and published by ETSI in 2003 reference ETSI TS 102.822

External bonds

Butt the Nextview EPG service
Software LPG of decoding NextView EPG
Gemstar GuidePlus+
List of the equipment supporting GuidePlus
NexTView on Hahn homepage
Comparison of three German software exploiting the EPG
FreeGuide: A free software of recovery of the programs on Internet

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