Method of acquiring electronic program guide information and corresponding apparatus

Optimizing 'actual' and 'other' table type EPG information acquisition. In a broadcast stream multiplex, information is comprised in event information tables of type 'actual' that comprises event or program information about a selected service, and of type 'other&#...

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Hauptverfasser: Cheron, Bruno, Le Garian, Bruno, Oreal, Laurent
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Optimizing 'actual' and 'other' table type EPG information acquisition. In a broadcast stream multiplex, information is comprised in event information tables of type 'actual' that comprises event or program information about a selected service, and of type 'other' that comprises event information about other services in the multiplex. An EPG database is updated with the event information comprised in the event information tables under certain conditions only.