[mythtvnz] EPG via EIT after recent channel changes

[Stephen Worthington]

On Sun, 24 Apr 2022 10:11:49 +1200, you wrote:

>Thank you for your time and a very plausible explanation Stephen.
>
>I will look into making a complaint to the Freeview team or Kordia (if 
>anyone knows how to do that)  prompting them to fix it.

There is a Freeview forum on geekzone.co.nz where I have seen
responses from Freeview people sometimes.  It is not a formal channel
to them, but it may be a way to make them aware of the problem.

>I am still holding out hope though, that when I install my PCIe tuner 
>things might improve for me because:-
>
>1/    There are some on this list who have full 7 days of data on all 
>channels while using EIT

Maybe they are on DVB-S instead of DVB-T.  The satellite has always
broadcast its EPG on EIT.  Or maybe only some DVB-T transmitter sites
are mis-programmed and are lacking the full EIT data.

>2/    On 3 of my TVs, after the initial scans (after the channel 
>changes) I had the same EPG data as I now have on MythTV but in time 
>they also now have full 7 days on all channels.

NZ TVs use the MHEG5 EPG data.  Any device, including TVs, that is
"Freeview certified" (and therefore can use the Freeview logo and
advertise that they are Freeview compatible) is required to use the
MHEG5 EPG data on DVB-T.  Immediately after the scans, the TVs will
have discarded the old EPG data and would only have had the now/next
EIT data as they would have received that almost instantly.  But after
a few minutes they would then have received the MHEG5 data and had
full EPG.

>I will pass this information to Freeview too if I can get hold of 
>someone willing to listen.
>
>Rob