<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Nick Rout <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Brett Miller <<a href="mailto:blmiller@slingshot.co.nz">blmiller@slingshot.co.nz</a>> wrote:<br>
> Good time to get a satellite dish & dvb-s tuner.<br>
> How long will it be until the dvb-s EIT data is neutered as well. It only<br>
> still exists due to legacy sat receivers in so many homes ?<br>
> The dvb-s could move to mheg5 EPG as well.<br>
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> The fact that there are "toys being thrown out of the sand pit", over<br>
> internet EPG sourced from dvb-s EIT, probably suggests they are staying<br>
> with dvb-s EIT because they are fighting to protect it.<br>
><br>
> It is hard to see how to make the mheg5 EPG more awful.<br>
><br>
> Don't they actually want us to watch any TV programmes from their channels ?<br>
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</div>Hmm sky are on the rampage:<br>
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<a href="http://xmltv.co.nz/" target="_blank">http://xmltv.co.nz/</a><br>
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Slashdot moment?<br></blockquote><div><br>Dumb. Really dumb. Why would they shut down people providing them with free advertising?<br><br>As for mheg5, I believe that the non-pvr Sky decoders probably aren't powerful enough to do it. Their current guide is already painfully slow. Far more likely that Sky simply encrypt the EPG streams.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br><br></div></div>