Welcome To Australia's No.1 Media Center Community!
You Are Currently Viewing As A Guest - you'll need to register in order to participate in our community and make this annoying message disappear!
By registering you'll be able to post & reply to questions, set up your own image gallery & blog, communicate privately with other members, create & respond to polls, access downloads and other "members only" features.
Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so why not join our community today - you'll be glad you did!
For any problems with the registration process or your account, please contact support.
Attention All Brisbane & Gold Coast Members!
Markc3012 has created a local user group for members living in Brisbane & the Gold Coast with the goal of creating a network of users to assist and support each other through information exchange and direct support.
Please see this post for more information and to join the group.
The major difference, from my perspective, is FreeEPG lists what show is on and gives a description of the show, ICE TV lists what show is on and usually has a description of the actual episode, not just a generic description of the show.
I'm sure there are other differences too but that was the first one I noticed.
Why don't you try them both out? ICE TV has a free trial. That way you can see the differences for yourself.
__________________
the eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow - william blake
You'd have to ask the networks..... one possibility is that it is a free service and they thought they would test the legal waters against a company making money.
Now that they've got a bloody nose, they might not go ahead, but you can bet if they had won the free services would have received a cease & desist letter from the broadcasters lawyers.
I have tried both and I had trouble selecting programs to be recorded from the FreeEPG guide. Especially channel 10, I would press the record button but nothing would happen. I read some other posts about this happening to other people too. Haven't had any problem with IceTV.
I had problems with FreeEPG where I would set it to record a HD program and it would record the SD channel instead. It appeared there was a DRM lock on recording some HD programs. Likewise, I have never had the issue with ICE TV. Until I saw the previous post I had completely forgotten about that, but thinking bac, this was ther main reason I decided to fork out for an ICE TV subscription.
__________________
the eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow - william blake
My 2c is this.
I am quite happy with ice TV's paid service and think it is well worth the $3/week it costs. With iceTV you also PIMP, which allows me to program my MCE from my PDA
I have been happy with ICE, I got a great deal ($49.95 for 12 months) with them, if i can get this deal again I will renew, but FreeEPG is really just as good in my opinion and am thinking of just donating $50 to them and using their service.
I had problems with FreeEPG where I would set it to record a HD program and it would record the SD channel instead. It appeared there was a DRM lock on recording some HD programs. Likewise, I have never had the issue with ICE TV. Until I saw the previous post I had completely forgotten about that, but thinking bac, this was ther main reason I decided to fork out for an ICE TV subscription.
This was a problem with interaction between Vista & EPGStream. AFAIK, it was fixed yesterday - tested it last night and no longer happen. I think IceTV are overcharging. I am perfectly happy with Free*Epg. As far as I can tell from other forums it has improved a lot just lately.
__________________
Abit F-190HD; Antec NSK2480B; Intel Core 2 E4600; 2G PC6400 Corsair; Samsung 250 & 500GB SATAII spinpoints; VMC32; DNTV TinyTwin USB tuner; Sony Bravia KDL-V4600 (46" 1390x768); Microsoft keyb/remote, Logitech Bluetooth mouse. Yamaha RX-V661 receiver.
