TVGOS ( TV Guide On Screen ) Devices - Page 29

Originally Posted by videobruce

For those who loose the Guide that are on a CATV feed, have you tried the direct OTA instead??

Originally Posted by Paw Paw

I used TVGOS but finally gave up on it and bought a TIVO several years ago. I always had issues with Comcast keeping the TVGOS working and now that there is only digital OTA my old analogue TVGOS would probably be useless anyway. I doubt that there are many individuals still using TVGOS so I am not surprised that no one has responded to Comcastardly's question.

There are several threads on the AVS forums devoted to TVGOS. I have not looked at them in a long time and they might be dead but here they are if they help

TVGOS not updating
TVGOS (TV Guide on Screen) Devices
TV Guide on Screen - Post your info here!

Originally Posted by HoustonUserSue

Our analog tvgos also went out again. The last transmission was on 1/26/11. Left a few calls for Comcast and was finally was able to speak to a representative who said he would forward the outage information to the engineer team. Our previous tvgos outage lasted from 10/13/10 - 11/19/10. With so many users dropping cable & satellite because of economic reasons, I would imagine companies should do everything in their power to keep their existing customers happy. Will keep forum members posted of any updates.

Originally Posted by EeeCeeTee

videobruce

Thanks for the response about Nick at Rovi, but do you have a phone number? When I go to the Rovi site, it says to contact my equipment mfr. (Pioneer,Panasonic) for TV Guide issues.

The one time I emailed Rovi they just sent back a message saying to contact the equipment mfr. just like the Rovi site says. Seems to me they specifically DON'T respond to an end consumer/user unless you say the secret word or already have a phone number for a tech.

I don't see any phone number on the Rovi site, just email contacts. What am I missing?

Originally Posted by comcastardly

I have been trying to get a grid on my TVGOS DVR on Comcast Houston and via OTA too and all I've accomplished in more than a week is to get a good device time and lots and lots and lots of freakin ads on my (no)listings page.

I have now contacted the TVGOS engineer guru at my CBS affiliate; the TVGOS expert at Comcast; Rovicorp and now the VP at Comcast... to no avail. Everyone says everything is well and good with TVGOS at THEIR place and still, we have no TVGOS in the Houston area?

Originally Posted by JoeKustra

I feel bad for you. Have you been following the TVGOS tech info on the DHG thread? It's soooo far beyond me, but I do feel fortunate to have just one analog insterter on my cable feed.

Ross Video Limited announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Norpak Corp., which is majority-owned by Rovi Corp. The sale is scheduled for completion on September 17.

Norpak manufactures Nielsen encoders and Closed Captioning Inserters as well as VBI, VANC and transport stream data insertion products. Norpak has been an openGear partner for the past three years and offers a range of openGear-compliant data insertion products.

Ross Video plans to integrate Norpak operations and personnel into Ross’ Ottawa Research and Development Center and Iroquois Manufacturing Facility. Ross will continue to sell and service the Norpak product portfolio, which will transition to the Ross brand.


“We are excited to expand our corporate capabilities deeply into the data insertion technology area,” said David Ross, CEO, Ross Video, “Norpak’s product portfolio and experience in broadcast data insertion will help Ross provide more complete customer solutions and will be a significant benefit to our openGear and other product lines as we move forward.”

“We believe that this transition will be great for Norpak customers. Ross is a terrific home for Norpak” said Michael Dobson, President of Norpak.

NORPAK AND SINCLAIR DEMONSTRATE INTERNET DELIVERY VIA TELEVISION
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High Speed Delivery of Internet content directly to PCs
Allows All Broadcasters to Offer Data Services to Businesses and Consumers

JULY 23, 1996 -- San Diego, CA -- At the ISA Annual Conference Norpak Corporation announced today that it and Sinclair Broadcast Group of Baltimore, MD have successfully conducted a demonstration of a system for broadcasting Internet information to personal computers using the TV signal. The demonstration was conducted throughout the Baltimore area using Norpak's new VBINET System and the facilities of Sinclair's two UHF TV stations. The demonstration conclusively established that the Norpak VBINET system could deliver Internet data throughout the Baltimore area at speeds of 100kbps and higher.

The VBINET System consists of a Server and TV Data Encoder at the headend and a TV Data Receiver at the receive end. The high speed Internet data is carried on the TV signal using the vertical blanking interval (VBI). The TV Data Receiver is available as either a PC Card that plugs into one of the computer's expansion slots, or as a standalone external box that connects to one of the computer's COM ports. A basic VBINET headend sells for $10,000US. The TV Data Receiver costs about the same as a high quality telephone modem.

The Internet data is distributed via the TV signal, received, stored and automatically updated on the end user's PC hard drive. PC users can browse and interact with the data just like they would regular Internet data by using any standard browser like Microsoft Explorer, or Netscape Navigator. Data access and display is virtually instantaneous -- Web pages, graphics, sound clips and video clips all appear at the click of the PC mouse. This feature opens the door for service and content providers to provide more compelling content than is practical over the Internet today. The system automatically connects the PC user to the Internet for "hotlinks" to data or to other Web sites not sent via the TV signal. This is the only time that the end user has to tie up a phone line or be exposed to the inherent delays of the Internet.

In a separate news release Sinclair has announced its intentions to deploy the system in the near future to provide a new service called "Supercast". Sinclair's Supercast service will deliver Internet information free to the end user's computer. The service will be supported by advertising. According to Nat Ostroff, Vice President of New Technology at Sinclair, "Supercast will be the first Internet application that does not require the end user to pay a recurring price for access. It will bring the benefits of the Internet and the Information Super Highway to the entire market place, for free. In short, Supercast will make Internet information available to everyone who has a computer".

Jim Carruthers, President of Norpak stated "Norpak is pleased to be working with Sinclair on this project. Our VBINET System is ideally suited for the Supercast service and similar applications where there is a need to distribute Internet content to widely dispersed PC users. The system was specifically developed to overcome the inherent access/response limitations of the Internet, and to provide an alternative delivery vehicle where the costs to add users is minimal".

Sinclair is the seventh largest broadcast group in the United States with 28 TV and 34 radio stations in 27 separate markets. The television group reaches 14.82% of the United States and includes ABC, CBS, FOX and UPN affiliates. The radio assets constitute one of the ten largest groups in radio. Sinclair is a public company that trades on the NASDAQ under the symbol SBGI.

Norpak Corporation is the world's leading supplier of vertical blanking interval (VBI) TV data transmission systems with over 18 years experience and more than 900 systems installed worldwide. Norpak is a privately held company based in Kanata, Ontario, near Ottawa. Significant shareholders in Norpak are Gemstar and Samsung.

Originally Posted by polyscroll

Well, I have been using the TVGOS function on my Panasonic TH-50PX600U plasma TV for several years now but as of a week ago, TVGOS is GONE. (I normally receive the guide data over-the-air.)

I mean the function is literally gone! Whenever I push the TVGOS button on the remote, or try to access it from the Main Menu, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING HAPPENS! It just stays on whatever TV channel I happen to be watching as if nothing happened. I can't even access it to run diagnostics or re-set it back up.

I tried resetting everything on the TV...even doing a special factory reset but TVGOS is still gone.

When I check the firmware version numbers in the "ABOUT" section of the TV Menu, the version number for TVGOS is BLANK! It used to be firmware version 9.xxxxx.

It is almost as if Rovi pushed out a code that told the TV to completely remove TVGOS down to the code level.

Every other function on the TV functions perfectly fine so I am stymied on this one.

Has anyone else out there had anything similar happen to them on any TVGOS device?

I wonder if in addition to VCRs you want to add DVDRs to your list of devices that use TVOGS, after all I'm guessing their might be more TVGOS DVDR users left than TVGOS VCR users.

Another thing you might want to consider adding would be a section on CECBs that convert the OTA digital TVGOS to analog TVGOS, for our legacy(analog tuner only) devices. I believe both the DTVPal and Artec(select models) will do the conversion but I have no personal experience with either.

Under TVGOS features you might also want to consider adding a note alongside point #2 Eight days......... saying something like (note select TVs only utilize 24hrs of listings, called TVGOS daily).