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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
Is there any need to speak to people with known cognitive problems like this? If a member had dementia, would you make rude comments to them for not remembering something or repeating something?
AIUI, they won't be on the EPG's of the traditional broadcasters as FAST channels or anything else, is this not correct?
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We expect members engaging in discussions either to understand the context of the topic they wish to engage in, or else *ask*, as you have belatedly done here. You have been told this often enough.
FAST channels won’t be on the Freesat, Freeview or VM EPG because these EPGs are designed to list channels delivered by satellite, terrestrial, or cable broadcast, as the case may be. FAST channels are delivered over IP and they appear in EPGs dedicated to IP delivery. This is a nascent technology and EPGs for FAST-IP channels are fragmented. But don’t forget there was no coherent EPG for free-to-air satellite TV for many years; your choices were either an un-subbed sky box which listed more locked subscription channels than free ones in its EPG or any number of different implementations from different receiver manufacturers, of varying quality.
I have attached a screen shot of the Pluto.tv EPG to this post to illustrated what a FAST service provider EPG presently looks like. I suspect a few years from now, this sort of provision will find its way into Freely, the IP-EPG for public service broadcasters.