Talk:Electronic program guide

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Provide an orientation

Contributors need an orientation, and a framework into which they can put their contribution (or withhold until they understand the overall framework that their own understanding fits. Many contributors merely understand their own limited environment, and presume to generalize. For example, mine is limited to a northern Virginia broadcast TV EPG on a digital converter. If I were to extrapolate, I might presume that most broadcasters are as careless as mine about accuracy, and reliability. It often takes weeks for changes in the program broadcasts to be reflected in the EPG. Some broadcasters provide nothing but the call sign & the channel #, with "No description". I don't suppose there is one clearinghouse for this information, but that viewers must contact each stationhouse manager to inform them of persistent malfunctions, because the station staff probably do not monitor their own EPG as well as they do their video(if at all).
It might be a limit of my receiving set, but only the next few (2-6) hours of programming is available in the EPG. There are also websites that provide parallel and analogous information in a table format, which could be printed for planning purposes: http://epguides.com/grid
Wikidity (talk) 01:43, 12 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Make article less US specific

The article talks about ATSC and PSIP whereas many countries are using DVB building the EPG from the EIT(schedule) SI data. If the article is going to be specific about how US systems build the EPG, would it not be sensible to include information about how DVB systems build their EPG? MendipBlue 15:05, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Gonkyhead (talk • contribs) 16:58, 5 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Make article include Digital Radio

The article should also consider the EPG broadcast using the Eureaka 147 standard (and possible HD-Radio standard). gonkyhead 16:58, 05 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong link

The link "TV-Browser - Open Source EPG software" leeds to a web page, which has nothing to do with EPG.

as it shows a picture of EPG software available to download. I'd tell you more, but it's in German and I don't have the energy to use Babel Fish. --69.123.165.15 02:16, 30 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

TV-Browser is a GPL Java based EPG software, providing German, Swedish and British channels for free. The software itself also has English localization, see its English wiki.

"In Australia, the lack of a seven-day electronic program guide..."

"In Australia, the lack of a seven-day electronic program guide has neccessitated datacast channels such as Seven Guide, Nine Guide, Ten Guide and the defunct SBS Essential to provide program information." On my MythTV the EPG works fine when getting info from the DTV card. --211.28.35.33 (talk) 19:33, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree it isn't credible, and as it isn't verifiable either I have removed it. Thanks, SqueakBox 19:39, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Digital EPG

EPGs can be utilized in a non-displayed format as the article itself cites: hence I changed "on-screen guide" to "digital" Ð’n —Preceding undated comment was added at 10:16, 24 December 2008 (UTC). [reply]

American or British English?

According to the "first kind of English used" rule (ENGVAR) the article should be in British English, but the article title is in American. I have no preference either way. But it would be nice if a decision was made. 118.90.28.56 (talk) 00:57, 5 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

EPG vs. IPG

I have reverted some edits by 96.229.210.15, who started changing "EPG" into "IPG" without any previous discussion. As for now the complete article is named Electronic program guide (="EPG") and sources are also referring to "EPG" and not to "IPG". I cannot find good reason for changing "EPG" into "IPG". If there is any, let's first discuss! Mentalmoses (talk) 15:34, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Added SuperGuide early interactive EPG history

The article jumps from non interactive displays to cable boxes with a decade plus gap in development. The SuperGuide system was available during this time. Regarding the references, I have scanned images of these references but don't know what to do with them should these references need to be verified.. The show guides and magazines are all out of print and hard to find. --PeteHallenbeckEfland (talk) 17:47, 19 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Merge proposal

I am requesting that the article Electronic Content Guide be merged into the article Electronic program guide due to the former's redundancy with this article. I placed this on the discussion page of the Electronic Content Guide (which is an unreferenced, orphan article) as well, but to get an actual consensus, I have also placed the merge proposal here on this talk page. (TVtonightOKC (talk) 10:57, 13 March 2011 (UTC))[reply]

Needs "data quality" or "data sources" section

It would be helpful if the article provided additional details on where and how Program Guide information comes from would be appropriate in this section.

The service provided with over-the-air HDTV systems in the US, via the Program and System Information Protocol for example, typically is either blank or does not describe the programming being broadcast.

rhyre (talk) 08:32, 11 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]