Nope Guide+ is made by a company called "gemstar"? and it is a electronic TV
guide that pulls the data from the cable TV signal. I don't think I'll ever find a
version of Guide+ for Linux, but I was hoping that someone would have some info on
where the data may be extraced.
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 12:36:34AM -0700, Dmitri wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 20:38, Mike Wood wrote:
>
> > Has anybody looked at the possibility of extracting North American TV
> > guide info directly from the cable signal? My 3 year old RCA TV has always
> > had a program guide and I hear that the ATI AIW cards have the software for
> > windows, so I assume that it *can* be done.
>
> You are probably talking about teletext, a 20-year old design that got
> some attention in Europe but not much in USA. There is software already
> that decodes teletext, but I doubt many broadcasters in USA transmit it
> (since not many TV sets can receive it, and not many typical TV owners
> would appreciate the feature even if it were there).
>
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=teletext+linux
>
> Dmitri
>
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