The Atari-based EPG Jr. was never afforded this split-screen upgrade and fell out of favor during the late 1980s as cable systems migrated to the full-or split-screen Amiga 1000-based EPG Sr., and later to the Amiga 2000-based Prevue Guide ( below ).

Some Atari-based BBSs exploited this difference by asking the client to hit the " Return " key.

EPG Jr. unit featuring an Atari 130XE.

By 1985 and under the newly formed Trakker, Inc. unit of United Video Satellite Group, two versions of the EPG were offered: EPG Jr., a 16KB EPROM version which ran on various Atari models including the 130XE and 600XL, and EPG Sr., a 3½ bootable diskette version for the Amiga 1000.

Both the EPG Jr. and EPG Sr. allowed cable operators to further customize their operation locally.

The on-screen appearances of both the Jr. and Sr. versions of the EPG software differed only slightly, due primarily to differences in text font and extended ASCII graphic glyph character rendering between the underlying Atari and Amiga platforms.

( The EPG Jr. software's EPROM was interfaced to the Atari's ROM cartridge port.

However, the EPG Jr. remained in service as late as 2005 on a few small cable systems, as well as on a number of private cable systems operated by various hotel chains and certain housing and apartment complexes.

The term Set-Back Box is used in the digital TV industry to describe a piece of consumer hardware that enables them to access both linear broadcast and internet-based video content, plus a range of interactive services like Electronic Programme Guides ( EPG ), Pay Per View ( PPV ) and Video on Demand ( VOD ) as well as internet browsing, and view them on a large screen television set.

Additional problems for ONdigital were caused by the choice of 64QAM broadcast mode, coupled with far weaker than expected broadcast power, ( meaning that the signal was weak in many areas ), a complex pricing structure ( comprising many menu options ), a poor quality subscriber management system ( badly adapted from Canal +), a paper magazine TV guide whereas BSkyB had provided an electronic programme guide ( EPG ), insufficient technical customer services, and much signal piracy.

In exchange for this programming, the ITV network is available on all platforms free to air and can be found at the top of the EPG of all providers.

Most of these channels are included within the Sky EPG, and an increasing number within the Freesat EPG.

Beginning in January 2010, Dish Network charges $ 6. 00 as a DVR service fee, which covers cost of licensing EPG ( electronic program guide ) from TV Guide.

In order to collect EPG data, the speaker is fitted with a special prosthetic palate, which contains a number of electrodes.

To encourage boxes to adopt copy protection, the BBC made its own look-up tables and decompression algorithm, necessary for decoding the EPG data on high-definition channels, available without charge only to manufacturers who implement the copy-protection technology.

An update to the Freeview HD programme guide data, featuring the Huffman-encoded EPG tables, was rolled out in August 2010.

During 2010, DVB-T broadcasts have become widely available in most of Israel and an EPG was added to the broadcasts.

It appears in the Freesat EPG on channel 209.

" The ReplayTV Electronic Programming Guide ( EPG ) Service will be permanently discontinued on July 31, 2011.

It broadcast until 1 November 2004, when ITV bought BSkyB's stake in GSB, and closed the channel, replacing it with ITV3, and taking Plus ' low EPG position on Sky Digital.

In practice, however, most MPEG-4 DVB-T compatible equipment, such as that conforming to the UK's Freeview HD standard, is capable of receiving SAORVIEW transmissions, albeit with some limitations to the EPG function.

Free and subscription providers are available, with differences in the number of channels, capabilities such as the programme guide ( EPG ), video on demand ( VOD ), high-definition ( HD ), interactive television via the red button, and coverage across the UK.

They all time-shared on three EPG positions.

Carlton Cinema received an EPG position of its own, but would be periodically closed down to provide bandwidth " On Sport 2 " during the ONdigital days.

On 16 May 2012, RTÉ Two HD was added to the Sky EPG on channel 294 before moving to 227 in July 2012, it swaps with the standard definition channel on channel 102 in Ireland and channel 162 in Northern Ireland for HD customers.

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On Sky Digital Look North for Goole news is on EPG number 977 whilst the main BBC One Look North ( 101 ) is mainly the West Yorkshire Edition.

All share an identical user interface and EPG, with the exception of Sky + HD boxes which use the new Sky + HD Guide.

All Digiboxes used to run on OpenTV ( the latest HD boxes now use what is known internally as Project Darwin software ) with Sky's EPG software and NDS VideoGuard conditional access.

In June 2012, Sky launched a new EPG for Sky + HD boxes.

On 12 May 2011, BBC Four was added to the Sky EPG in Ireland on channel 230.

Because neither version of the EPG software was capable of silent remote administration for its locally customizable features, cable company employees were required to visit their head end facilities in order to make all necessary adjustments to the software in person.

Other features of Prevue Guide, unavailable in the earlier full-and split-screen EPG Sr. versions, were colorized listings backgrounds and program-by-program channel summaries.

With the increase in capacity, and lower cost base, a whole host of such channels were launched, with most languishing at unpopular EPG locations, or even outside the EPG.

It has now been relabelled " Play Disney +" and is now airing a timeshifted version of Disney Junior, a channel which launched Tuesday 30 October 2007 on Sky 612 ( originally as Playhouse Disney +), on the same day that all the Disney Channels were reshuffled to allow Playhouse Disney & Playhouse Disney + to be next to each other on the Sky EPG.

They were removed from Sky Digital's EPG at 06: 00UTC on 1 December.

In October 2005, Sky Travel on Freeview was replaced by Sky Three and in March 2006, the Sky Travel channels were moved from the " Entertainment " section on the Sky EPG, to the " Lifestyle and Culture " section.

When it launched in 2003, it was slated mainly by the Internet and got a mention in the press for its low quality, e. g. most of the programming was devoted to an internet-based game called Brainbox, or a lengthy computer games show called GamerWeb, when there were supposed to be proper or other programmes, according to the station's EPG.

Additionally, because the EPG software generated only video, cable operators commonly resorted to filling the EPG channel's audio with music from a local FM station, or with programming from a cable TV-oriented audio service provider such as Cable Radio Network.

The channel retaining the UK Horizons EPG position was renamed UKTV Documentary and would feature the best of all documentaries on the network that did not specifically fall into one of the other channels area, such as UKTV History.

Unlike other media center applications like Windows Media Center, MediaPortal and MythTV, XBMC Media Center does not yet include native Live TV or DVR / PVR recording functionality, nor an EPG TV-Guide interface of its own, it does however offer the possibility to integrate such functionality through third-party plugins and an official native unified DVR / PVR front-end with EPG which via a common API will support multiple back-ends via PVR client add-ons is under development, with experimental builds already available.

On digital systems such as Sky and Freeview, where stations have a set EPG number and a name displayed across the bottom of the screen when changing channel, DOGs have been deemed unnecessary by some users.

Subscription providers are available, with differences in the number of channels, capabilities such as the programme guide ( EPG ), video on demand ( VOD ), high-definition ( HD ), interactive television via the red button and coverage across Malaysia.

This Eight-Day EPG was not an original feature of the Digital Terrestrial system, therefore some early receivers, such as receivers originally made to operate with the ONdigital service, will only display details of ' now and next ' programme information.

Eggs per gram ( EPG ) is a laboratory test that determines the number of eggs per gram of feces in patients suspected of having a parasitological infection, such as schistosomiasis.