reported by Adam Turner
Frustrated Australian PVR owners are lobbying the government regulator to force the networks to provide a true Electronic Program Guide (EPG) for everyone.
An online petition and information campaign at myEPG.com.au is designed to force the Australian Communications and Media Authority to make the provision of accurate EPG data a licence condition for Australian networks. The move comes as the Network Seven-backed TiVo and Foxtel-backed iQ2 PVRs hit the market, both offering access to full EPG data.
Late last year FreeTV Australia, the group representing free-to-air broadcasters, struck a deal to include an EPG in broadcast signals to work with "all" Personal Video Recorders. That same day FreeTV Australia sent a confidential letter, obtained by ITWire, to hardware manufacturers saying that PVRs that allowed viewers to skip advertisements were "not authorised" to use the new broadcast EPG. FreeTV Australia refused to detail how the ban would be enforced as ad-skipping PVRs automatically extract the new EPG from the broadcast signal.
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