One of the promises that has gone along with all the FreeView advertising we have been subjected to over the last year or so is that FreeView branded equipment will have their own electronic Program Guide (EPG).
Throughout 2009, the FreeView EPG was promised for May 2009, then put back to the end of the year. Now they reckon it will be up and running by June 2010 - just in time for the first Analogue switch off in Mildura. Its arrival has been plagued by a myriad of technological and copyright issues.
The will be similar to what Foxtel offers listing all Free to Air channels together in one list. With Community TV now on digital (Sydney started this month on channel 44), they too will be included within their reception area.
The FreeView EPG promises to be easy to use and will allow uses to record shows by genre or program as opposed to simply blocks of time. The FreeView catch up TV service should also launch late 2010.
The FreeView EPG will only be available to FreeView branded equipment.
Source: TV Tonight.
