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InView/4TV ends Freeview box EPG updates

InView Technology, the company which provides 14-day updates to Freeview electronic programming guides, has terminated the service to certain receivers.

Some members on Digital Spy's Personal Video Recorders forum yesterday reported problems with their PVRs accessing the advance EPG data supplied by the InView-owned 4TV.

The company provides EPG updates to a variety of Freeview boxes, including several manufactured by Digifusion and two from Inverto, along with the Thomson DHD4000 and Sony SVR-S500.

However, InView/4TV has confirmed that the service has now been discontinued, with the final update providing EPG information until July 7.

A statement from InView/4TV, posted by DS forum member Albertd, said: "Unfortunately we are discontinuing the service as we are no longer able to have access to the delivery method that has been available until now.

"I know that this is not good news for you so I can only deeply apologise for your loss of service in advance. Your box should otherwise operate normally and have the now-and-next option."

When DS contacted the company, a representative said that the contract to distribute the updates has ended and so it no longer has access to the necessary bandwidth to maintain the service.

InView/4TV is also not thought to be in negotiations to renew the contract, meaning that the updates will most likely never return for the affected receivers.

The removal of EPG updates for the PVRs means that their recording functionality is significantly reduced as the box will not provide any advance programme information.

Users will have to rely on the EPG's now-or-next function or manually enter the date, time and channel number of the programme that they want to record.

Despite the situation with 4TV, InView will continue to supply advance EPG information to the following boxes: Thomson/Ferguson FDT2000, Grundig GDT2000, Grundig 1500T, Alba STB8, Pacific, Technika, Technosonic, Bush DFTA2, Bush DFTA1000, Audioline, HCW, Tivion, Dansai, April, Digilogic, Durabrand, Goodmans, Logik, Matsui DTR-3, Techwood, Bush DFTA3, Daewoo DS700, Matsui TUTV1, Ferguson FDT2500, Astratec TOPD1, TOPD2, TOPD3 and newer models.

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1 BBC One Entertainment 24 hours
2 BBC Two Entertainment 24 hours
3 ITV1 Entertainment 24 hours
4 Channel 4 (S4C in Wales) Entertainment 24 hours
5 Channel Five Entertainment 24 hours
6 ITV2 Entertainment 24 hours
7 BBC Three Entertainment 7pm - 5am
9 BBC Four Culture 7pm - 5am
10 ITV3 Entertainment 24 hours
11 Sky Three Entertainment 24 hours
12 Yesterday History 6am - 1am
13 Channel 4 (+1) Entertainment 24 hours
14 More 4 Entertainment 24 hours
15 Film Four Movies 11am - 3.30am
16 QVC Shopping 24 hours
17 G.O.L.D Entertainment Top Up Anytime only. 6pm to 11:30pm only
18 4Music Music 24 hours
19 Dave Entertainment 7am - 3am
20 Virgin 1 Entertainment 9am to midnight only. To rebrand as Channel One
21 VIVA Music channel 24 hours
22 Ideal World Shopping 24 hours
23 Bid TV / ScreenShop Shopping 24 hours
24 ITV4 Entertainment 24 hours
25 Dave ja vu (+ 1) Entertainment 7am - 3am
26 Home Lifestyle 2pm - 4pm
27 ITV2 + 1 Entertainment 24 hours
28 E4 Entertainment 24 hours
29 E4+1 Entertainment 24 hours
30 Fiver Entertainment 9am - 12midnight
31 Five USA Entertainment 12noon - 1am
32 Big Deal Quiz 4am - 6am
33 ITV2 + 1 Entertainment 24 hours
34 ESPN Sport 12 noon - 3am
36 Create & Craft Shopping 8am - 1pm
37 Price-Drop TV Shopping 24 hours
38 Quest Documentary 11am - 1am
39 SuperCasino Gaming (Ceased broadcasing July 2010)
40 Rocks & Co 1 Shopping  
41 Sky Sports 1 - NEW Sports 24 hours
42 Sky Sports 2 - NEW Sports 24 hours
43 Gems TV Shopping 1am - 11am
70 CBBC Kids 7am - 7pm
71 Cbeebies Kids 7am - 7pm
72 CITV Kids 7am - 7pm
80 BBC News News 24 hours
81 BBC Parliament News 24 hours
82 Sky News News 24 hours
83 Sky Sports News Sport To be replaced by Sky3 +1 on 23 Aug - 24 hours
84 CNN News 7pm to midnight only
85 Russia Today News  
87 Community Channel Specialist  
89 Al Jazeera English Entertainment News 6pm to 11pm
93 Television X Adult Pay-to-view
94 Smile TV 2 Adult chat Overnight
95 Smile TV 3 Adult chat Overnight
96 Babestation Adult chat 11pm-5am, pay-per-view from midnight
97 Partyland Adult Chat 1am - 5am
98 TMTV (Tease Me TV) Adult Overnight
99 Babestation 2 Adult chat Overnight
101 Teletext Holidays Text Holidays  
102 Rabbit Text Dating  
103 Teletext Casino Text Gaming  
104 1-2-1 Dating Text Dating  
105 BBC Red Button Text Information  
107 Gay Rabbit Text Dating  
108 Sky Text Text Information  
109 Mobilizer Text Adult  
200 Channel M Entertainment  
201 JML Shopping Shopping  
300 4TV Interactive Text  
301 BBCi Interactive  
306 Channel Zero Text  
700 BBC Radio 1 Music  
701 BBC 1 Xtra Music  
702 BBC Radio 2 Music  
703 BBC Radio 3 Music  
704 BBC Radio 4 Speech  
705 BBC 5 Live Sport  
706 BBC 5 Live Sports Extra Sport  
707 BBC 6 Music Music  
708 BBC Radio 7 Comedy/Kids  
709 BBC Asian Network Specialist  
710 BBC World Service Speech  
711 The Hits Music  
712 Smash Hits! Music  
713 Kiss Music  
714 Heat Music  
715 Magic Music  
716 Q Music  
718 Smooth Radio Music  
719 BBC Scotland / BBC Wales / BBC Ulster Speech Scotland/Wales/NI only
720 BBC Radio Cymru / BBC Radio nan GĂ idheal / BBC Radio Foyle Speech Scotland/Wales/NI only
722 Kerrang! Music  
723 TalkSport Sport  
725 Premier Christian Radio Religious  
726 U105 Radio Music Northern Ireland only
727 Absolute Radio Music  
728 Heart Music