[mythtvnz] EPG or lack there of

[David Zanetti]

Without wanting to comment on the merits of any claims made by Sky or
other parties...

On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 15:43 +1300, Brett Miller wrote:
> How long will it be until the dvb-s EIT data is neutered as well. It
> only still exists due to legacy sat receivers in so many homes ?
> The dvb-s could move to mheg5 EPG as well.

Only Freeview uses MHEG-5. Sky uses EIT for almost everything, tho
no-one seems certain about exactly what data the Series Link stuff is
using.

I suspect the reason why Sky hasn't switched to encrypted private
streams (either EIT-like or MHEG-5) for listings data is the lack of
hardware to decode more than a couple of NDS-encrypted streams in the
vast majority of boxes out there.

And any alternative is also going to be more expensive to engineer than
sending letters from time to time.

-- 
David Zanetti <dave2 at wetstring.net>
http://hairy.geek.nz/
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