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Did You Know? We have an Australian TV network which is currently taking action that if successful, could mean that it will be illegal to use a TV guide to program your VCR or PVR?
Despite the Australian public owning and licensing the air waves to Free To Air (FTA) TV stations, one network is using the law in a way no one had ever considered possible by attempting to gain complete control of program guide information. This means (they are saying) that it is illegal to use their guide information to record Free to Air (FTA) television shows; and yes, the current copyright conditions are easily interpreted to include using the newspaper for the purpose of programming your VCR!
One of the reasons they are trying to do this is to exert control over the sales channels for the new type of Digital TV personal video recorders (PVRs) now available in Australia. After all, what better way to force you to buy one brand of equipment than by ensuring that their unit is one of a only few models which can provide a ‘legitimate’ and effective program guide!
Our goal is to ensure that the Australian public enjoys the full scope of the EPG together with the freedom to choose from a wider range of PVRs without fear of being accused of being involved in illegal activity, and that such equipment is enabled to provide a free, reliable and effective EPG - just like the rest of the world has been enjoying for several years.
Learn More :: What Can You Do? :: Who Do You Write To? :: Sign The Petition!
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| FOXTEL, OptusTV and AUSTAR listings to be discontinued! - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 |
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Sadly, our Windows Media Center guide listings for FOXTEL, OptusTV and AUSTAR will be discontinued as of the 1st August 2008. To cut a long story short, these listings consume over 50% of our network and resources but unfortunately we don't have the budget or support from the community to continue supporting this service anymore.
The good news is we do have a set of client tools which will allow you to download and configure the guide data directly into your Media Center installation. Read More >>. | |
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| XMLTV Service v2.0 Now Available! - Wednesday, April 02, 2008 |
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Double What The?!? We've followed ozTiVo.net's lead and now have a new XMLTV service which is more grabber friendly! This new service uses HTTP caching so it's fast and will allow grabbers to specify the amount of data they need per channel.
To get the ball rolling we've created a free Windows 2000/XP/Vista grabber named xmltvDownload which will allow you to download XMLTV data from ozTiVo.net or epgStream.net.
Read more about accessing our new XMLTV Guide Service 2.0 here. | |
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| XMLTV Service Now Available! - Friday, February 01, 2008 |
| What The?!? Yup, we've setup a simple, easy-to-use XMLTV service interface and it's now available for all those non-Windows Media Center users to use! This means that clients like Media Portal, WebScheduler, Meedio, MythTV, etc can now take advantage of all the programme guide data available from epgStream.net. Read more about accessing this service on our forum: http://forum.epgstream.net/viewforum.php?f=18 | |
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| Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! - Friday, January 04, 2008 |
| Well we survived yet another year of guide distribution! In 2008 we'll try and find the time and budget to generate more tools and utilites for you ... Heck, while we're at it we'll give the website a make over too! Check out our first change: http://forum.epgstream.net! | |
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| It's a High Definition kinda month! - Saturday, December 15, 2007 |
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This month sees Channel 7 and Network 10 go all out for Christmas and give Australia new High Definition television programming! We're all still waiting for Channel 9 to come to the HD party though ... But in the meantime enjoy your Free*EPG HD listings! Thanks ozTiVo.net! | |
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| Free TV Networks To Broadcast EPG! - Wednesday, November 14, 2007 |
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Commercial Free TV broadcasters announced that they will all be openly broadcasting program listing information by the 1st of January 2008, creating Australia's first "free" electronic program guide. Check out the Free TV website or read more here. | |
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| Microsoft Hotfix for Windows Vista Guide Available! - Friday, May 04, 2007 | If you've been having guide update problems with Vista's version of Media Center then happy days are finally here again! Microsoft have released an 'unofficial' Windows Vista Hotfix (KB935685) that will stop user's guide settings from being reset. Check out our Support Page for more information! |
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| Cable and Satellite guides now available! - Tuesday, November 28, 2006 | New guide feeds for FOXTEL Digital, Optus TV and AUSTAR are now available thanks to the guys from ozTiVo! Never miss your favourite shows with Media Center ... especially if you don't have FOXTEL iQ! |
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| ozTiVo Plugs In? - Monday, November 20, 2006 |
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Yup, you heard right! We've added an ozTiVo.com guide feed that can be accessed directly from your Microsoft Media Center solution! Access your guide data through one simple interface! | |
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| Free*EPG 1.1 Released - Sunday, August 13, 2006 | Well we've made some big changes over the past couple of weeks to our Free*EPG service based on user feedback. Most importantly this new version sees both Standard and High Definition channels supported as well as XMLTV support! |
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| IceTV goes 60-Days Free! Free! Free! - Thursday, July 27, 2006 |
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Now who said a little Free*EPG competition wasn't good for consumers!
Take advantage of IceTV's great offer while it lasts! |
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| xpmediacenter.com.au welcomes epgStream.net! - Sunday, July 09, 2006 | The Australian EPG community gave us a big friendly hug (well... maybe just a firm handshake) when the Australian Media Center Community introduced us to the world through a news post! |
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| TVS Help the EPG Community! - Friday, July 07, 2006 |
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The team at Television Sydney have agreed to provide their 2-week programme information to us! Show your support for tvs by tuning into UHF 31! | |
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| Free*EPG Service Online - Thursday, July 06, 2006 | A week of blood, sweat and caffeine finally produced a living, breathing programme guide service! We call it Free*EPG ... only because we weren't creative enough to come up with another name for a free EPG service. |
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| epgStream.net Website Launch - Tuesday, June 27, 2006 | Well after a few days work we've finally pulled together the initial cut of epgStream.net! Slowly but surely we'll be adding more content to keep you guys interested and coming back for more. |
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