[vdr] Re: Crippled EPG on ZDF

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Rainer Zocholl wrote:
> 
> Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de(Klaus Schmidinger)  03.11.02 13:50
> 
> Once upon a time Klaus Schmidinger shaped the electrons to say...
> 
> >I was trying to find out why the "extended description" on the ZDF's
> >EPG often ends in the middle of a sentence, as in
> 
> >-------------
> >Gemeinsam mit seinen Freunden Willi (Gerold Wanke), Oskar (Peter
> >Garden) und Jupp übt Peter (Peter Alexander) für einen anstehenden
> >Jazzwettbewerb. Sein Onkel (Josef Egger) ist von den musikalischen
> >Vorlieben seines Neffen nich -------------
> 
> >but I couldn't find anything obvious.
> 
> It's obvious that NO EPG infos in ZDF are complete, if
> they have more than 2 line.
> Mostly it cut after 4 "main" lines, sometimes there
> are 5 lines. But never complete.
> 
> The EPG texts are completely different from the description
> on the teletext pages.
> 
> Today EPG shows a decription not belonging to the transmission.
> teletext info was correct.
> 
> >Since this doesn't happen on
> >other channels (like the Premiere channels, for instance) it would be
> >nice if somebody with a commercial set-top-box could check whether
> >this also happens there. If so, the problem is apparently with the ZDF
> >EPG generation (once again...).
> 
> It sounds very much that way.

I've sent a message to the ZDF EPG people yesterday. Let's hope they can
fix it...

Klaus
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