Nope Guide+ is made by a company called "gemstar"? and it is a electronic TV guide that pulls the data from the cable TV signal. I don't think I'll ever find a version of Guide+ for Linux, but I was hoping that someone would have some info on where the data may be extraced. On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 12:36:34AM -0700, Dmitri wrote: > On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 20:38, Mike Wood wrote: > > > Has anybody looked at the possibility of extracting North American TV > > guide info directly from the cable signal? My 3 year old RCA TV has always > > had a program guide and I hear that the ATI AIW cards have the software for > > windows, so I assume that it *can* be done. > > You are probably talking about teletext, a 20-year old design that got > some attention in Europe but not much in USA. There is software already > that decodes teletext, but I doubt many broadcasters in USA transmit it > (since not many TV sets can receive it, and not many typical TV owners > would appreciate the feature even if it were there). > > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=teletext+linux > > Dmitri >
