Where does the TV guide information come from?

When I saw how much better OTA was, I kissed Comcast goodbye and saved
$50/mo. But that's another story.

I have a Sony HDD250 DVR. It has a TV-Guide page (replete with
advertising) which show me what's on and when. I assume the TV-Guide
data come from the PSIP data, but which station provides the PSIP
data? The page shows many channels that I do not receive (too far
away for my antenna) so all data must be coming from one of my local
stations. Which one??? My guess is my local PBS station.

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"NadCixelsyd" wrote:

When I saw how much better OTA was, I kissed Comcast goodbye and saved
$50/mo. But that's another story.

I have a Sony HDD250 DVR. It has a TV-Guide page (replete with
advertising) which show me what's on and when. I assume the TV-Guide
data come from the PSIP data, but which station provides the PSIP
data? The page shows many channels that I do not receive (too far
away for my antenna) so all data must be coming from one of my local
stations. Which one??? My guess is my local PBS station.

I think that's right. the website is at http://tvgos.com/.

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"NadCixelsyd" wrote (in part):

I have a Sony HDD250 DVR. It has a TV-Guide page (replete with
advertising) which show me what's on and when. I assume the TV-Guide
data come from the PSIP data, but which station provides the PSIP
data? The page shows many channels that I do not receive (too far
away for my antenna) so all data must be coming from one of my local
stations. Which one??? My guess is my local PBS station.

Not PSIP, not even from a digital channel, although I expect Gemstar
will have to switch to that eventually if they want to stay in
business. Or supply it over the Internet, as they do for ATI AIW
cards.

Gemstar's TVGOS guide information is fed in the vertical interval of
cooperating analog station broadcasts. Commonly a PBS station, but it
may be others, and may be more than one. I have an LG LST-3410A that
uses an earlier version of the guide than the Sony; I'm currently
getting the guide from the local PBS station, but I've gotten it
previously from the ABC and CBS stations, and it has found guides on
others but been unable to use the data. They may have been feeding
the later version that the Sony uses.

On the LG there's a magic combination to punch in on the remote to see
a set of diagnostic pages, including the guide channel in hexadecimal
(e.g. channel 10 is 0x0A). I expect the Sony has something similar.
Search AVS Forum for that model; you'll probably find a thread devoted
to it.

Don't plan on having your guide work after the analog stations go
dark. Even if Gemstar makes the switch to digital, it's unlikely that
any existing receivers that use it can be upgraded.

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Search AVS Forum for that model; you'll probably find a thread devoted
to it.

That thread is located at

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=537711