From today Australian Digital TV Viewers can access a seven day Electronic Program guide on Channels Nine and Ten and some of their regional subsidiaries.
The Australian networks have been slow to adopt the broadcasting of their programming on EPG's, leading to the introduction of a 3rd party paid subscriber service in 2004.
EPG's are commonplace overseas and are the basis of the success of the hugely popular TIVO. Channel 7 will launch TIVO in Australia in January 2008. Ahead of this Channel 7 will broadcast an EPG in December.
Digital TV viewers who have set top boxes with hard drive recording (PVR's) will benefit the most from EPG's. Instead of setting timer recordings, the viewer need only browse the EPG listing to select a program they want to record and the PVR will work out the start and stop times and apply the name of the program to the recording.
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