On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 08:33:08PM +0200, Lauri Tischler wrote: > Rene Hertell wrote: > >Marko M?kel? wrote: > > > >>I'm watching Finnish DVB-T streams with VDR. Often, the EPG information > >>for a program contains part of the description of the previous or > >>following > >>program. EPG bugfix level is set to 2. Should it be configured > >>differently > >>for Finnish transponders? Has anyone tried to contact the transponder > >>people? > > > > > >Hi Marko, > > > >I called Digita last spring regarding the EPG-data, and I had an > >interesting chat with the person charge of these things. > > > >I asked why Digita does not supervise that the data our broadcasters are > >sending is correct. I mainly pointed out that the data is put into wrong > >EPG-fields, and that because of that the program-description is chopped > >off. > > .. and that is because in the NorDig version of DVB-standard the extended > description field is defined as optional. > That's why :( Hmm, sometimes you can alert journalists to investigate things by writing in the readers' column of a major newspaper, such as Helsingin Sanomat, which has run some articles on DVB recently. I'd try that myself if I knew the standards better. I'd like to contribute to such an article, if someone can provide the required technical details. I've written a few articles that have been published. Marko
