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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
I believe its done via a third party called Tribune.
Tribune are paid via the TiVo fee to provide quality EPG data to the VM TiVo to enable accurate recording.
IMO they should be chasing up channels for better quality metadata where neccesary as well as maintaining the EPG to a better standard overall.
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Tribune will hold metadata such as actors in a series or director or the episode synopsis.
But as far as I'm aware the channel provider is the one that then provides the data as to which episode or series is being broadcast and when, and also updates this as broadcast plans change.
This is why not all channels have data for the full two advance weeks that TiVo's EPG covers - because it's not been provided by the channel in the first place.
I'd expect that Tribune takes the channel provider's data, add it's own metadata, and turns this combined data into a format that TiVo understands - which is then downloaded every 4 hours as part of the Service connection.