Electronic program guide electronic programming guides epgs and interactive programming guides ipgs are

Electronic program guide Electronic programming guides EPGs and interactive programming guides IPGs are menu-based systems that provide users of television radio and other media applications with continuously updated menus that display scheduling information for current and upcoming broadcast programming most commonly TV listings Some guides also feature backward scrolling to promote their catch up content They are commonly known as guides or TV guides Non-interactive electronic programming guides Electronic programming guide interface in MythTV sometimes known as navigation software are typically available for television and radio and consist of a digitally displayed non-interactive menu of programming scheduling information shown by a cable or satellite television provider to its viewers on a dedicated channel EPGs are transmitted by specialized video character generation CG equipment housed within each such provider's central headend facility By tuning into an EPG channel a menu is displayed that lists current and upcoming television shows on all available channels A more modern form of the EPG associated with both television and radio broadcasting is the interactive electronic programming guide IPG though often referred to as EPG An IPG allows television viewers and radio listeners to navigate scheduling information menus interactively selecting and discovering programming by time title channel or genre using an input device such as a keypad computer keyboard or television remote control Its interactive menus are generated entirely within local receiving or display equipment using raw scheduling data sent by individual broadcast stations or centralized scheduling information providers A typical IPG provides information covering a span of seven or days Data used to populate an interactive EPG may be distributed over the Internet either for a charge or free of charge and implemented on equipment connected directly or through a computer to the Internet Television-based IPGs in conjunction with Programme Delivery Control PDC technology can also facilitate the selection of TV shows for recording with digital video recorders DVRs also known as personal video recorders PVRs Contents History Key events North America Western Europe Current applications See also References CExternal links History Key events North America In United Video Satellite Group launched the ?rst EPG service in North America a cable channel known simply as The Electronic Program Guide It allowed cable systems in the United States and Canada to provide on-screen listings to their subscribers hours a day displaying programming information up to minutes in advance on a dedicated cable channel Raw listings data for the service was supplied via satellite to participating cable systems each of which installed a computer within its headend The EPG Channel an electronic program guide EPG from facility to present that data to subscribers in a format customized to the system's unique channel lineup The EPG Channel would later be renamed Prevue Guide and go on to serve as the de facto EPG service for North American cable systems throughout the remainder of the s the entirety of the s and ?? as TV Guide Network or TV Guide Channel ?? for the ?rst decade of the st

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