[vdr] Re: UK Digital Terrestrial TV EPG Data

[Dave Chapman <dave@dchapman.com>]

On Sunday 14 April 2002 00:01, Simon Dean wrote:
> > As far as I know even genuine STBs only have now and next functions
> which
> > would seem to imply that they don't transmit it.
> > the guide button on the box doesn't seem to do anything.
> 
> I hadn't realised that :(

Yes - the genuine STBs only have now/next.  However, there are two or three 
digital teletext services that provide daily listings for all channels.  As 
far as I know, you can't access anything further in advance than 24 hours.

However, the easiest way to get seven or eight day TV listings for the UK is 
to get them from Internet sites.  The BBC's website is easy to parse to 
extract information for the next 8 days (their website even uses the same 
event ID that is broadcast in the now/next DVB data).  

www.ananova.com or www.sceneone.co.uk can provide listings for all other 
channels.

Dave.