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Originally Posted by ozsat
Just to add this is only for the V6. 360 has different and not so helpful system.
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The disparate systems don't make it easy to track changes. For example, the channel number listed in the EPG section of the SDT only relates to Tivo / V6 based systems. The 360's HD <> SD channel number swap will be built into 360 support data rather than SI data. The correlation between the NEW icon in the EPG and the series link "new only" option was demonstrated many times over during EIT "discovery", not just situations like the entire season of SVU missing the icon and not recording. Also with the intermittent appearance of the icon during some episodes of The Arrow, where the initial showing (without the icon) didn't record but subsequent repeats (with the icon) did record. Of course, the NEW & HD icons also appear in the recordings list, not just the EPG. All linked to events and PVRs are event driven by design. Mainly done online nowadays as Virgin has completely dropped all versions of the EIT from the SI data.
Disparate systems must make it very difficult for Virgin to keep everything in sync. For instance, the video loop played at 6am by the broadcaster, following the Tiny Pop closure, was replaced by a closure slate at 7.05am on DVB-C systems. Simply routing the slate to replace the broadcaster's video feed on the original video PID. Not so simple for Stream, where the broadcaster's video loop continued to play.