Australia announces free EPG, requires buying new PVR!

[Ext User(sputnikmeister)]

Australia strikes EPG deal, but most TV watchers still screwed

Australia's recalcitrant free to air television networks have finally
conceded to sharing their programming schedules electronically, but in
the short term very few TV watchers will actually benefit....

....So if you've already spent hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars
on a digital video recorder - too bad. Australia's television networks
insist you buy a new recorder compatible with their unique protection
system to stop people stealing their precious EPG data - even though
they're giving the data away for free.

http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/13354/1085/

[Ext User(Jonathan Wilson)]

The REAL reason the FTA networks don't want to give their EPG data free to
just anyone is so that they can make sure that only PVRs that don't have
nasty features like "easy commercial skipping" can access it.

[Ext User(Maxamillion)]

And of course the scum weak rich boys club the Howard Liberal Gov will not
force the networks to use the current system. The Howard Gov and their
little rich boys club deserve to be thrown out. Like 'Work Choices' no
bloody choice you work for $5.00 an hour or get sacked. Screw the filth
scumbag Howard Bushes little ass licker.


"Jonathan Wilson" <jfwfreo@tpgi.com.au> wrote in message
news:468f31fb$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au...
> The REAL reason the FTA networks don't want to give their EPG data free to
> just anyone is so that they can make sure that only PVRs that don't have
> nasty features like "easy commercial skipping" can access it.

[Ext User(Martin Barr-David)]

Maxamillion wrote:
> And of course the scum weak rich boys club the Howard Liberal Gov will not
> force the networks to use the current system. The Howard Gov and their
> little rich boys club deserve to be thrown out. Like 'Work Choices' no
> bloody choice you work for $5.00 an hour or get sacked. Screw the filth
> scumbag Howard Bushes little ass licker.
>
>
> "Jonathan Wilson" <jfwfreo@tpgi.com.au> wrote in message
> news:468f31fb$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au...
>> The REAL reason the FTA networks don't want to give their EPG data free to
>> just anyone is so that they can make sure that only PVRs that don't have
>> nasty features like "easy commercial skipping" can access it.
>
>
spot on

[Ext User(Peelah Ben Arhna)]

sputnikmeister wrote...

>...So if you've already spent hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars
>on a digital video recorder - too bad. Australia's television networks
>insist you buy a new recorder compatible with their unique protection
>system to stop people stealing their precious EPG data - even though
>they're giving the data away for free.

What's there to steal? Programming guides are nothing more than
advertising for the FTA networks. ie. they're advertising the products
that they have to offer, to entice us to watch them so they can then
attract sponsors, which in turn we will watch.

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