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OTA guide data sucks IMO. IceTV is money well spent.
As with all things in life, good vs bad is relative and dependent on your point of view. The free method of accessing the OTA EPG as per:
http://epgstream.net/xmltv-download/... scroll down to the section for Oz (+see quote below) and my previous post in this thread - does a good enough job for me.
My yardstick is my TV junkie partner. If she complained, I might get concerned. The OzTiVo data with the epgstream.net delivery work well enough via JR MC's relevant import function - just a bit tricky to set up for a noob.
Info from epgstream.net - Australia
OzTiVo
OzTiVo is an Australian Community-driven TV Guide. The Guide was created so that personal video recorders (PVRs) in Australia can obtain electronic program guide (EPG) data. Currently, the TV Guide provides data in XMLTV format and in OzTiVo slice format.
The data is freely available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia License. OzTiVo do require payment to receive this data.
OzTiVo’s guide relies on a community of volunteers to create and upload guide data to the guide’s database, and to clean and edit the data via a web interface.
I personally really like the idea of OTA guide data.
And in fact Media Center has pretty nice support for it in ATSC land. The problem is that the OTA guide data is often terrible.
Is the OTA guide information in Australia good? Does it go out a couple weeks?
Matt, jmone sounds to be on the ball and you've got additional resource potential from rpalmer68. You can see from the OzTiVo info above that there is a level of horsepower that works to generate a reasonable standard of freely available EPG data. From my limited knowledge, the Australian federal government mandates timely release of EPG data from the various TV stations in a format that can at least be scraped by those with the wherewithal.
From a dum@ass, "I just want the goods" user what I can make work with what you've provided is OK but if you guys can come up with a better deal straight out of the box that's configured with the flick of a JR MC switch, then I think you can see that you've already got votes in support. To coin an Ozzie phrase, the "rest will follow like sheep, mate". Go for it ...