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Sunday 31 May 2009

Live TV with EPG in Media Center comes to Thailand

I’ve been wanting to get this working for a long time now and we finally have a solution for integrating live TV from True Visions in to Windows 7 Media Center.

True Visions offer both Satellite and Cable TV, we have only tested this so far using a satellite dish and a FloppyDTV S2 and also a FireDTV S/CI.

This is still work in progress, but as you can see from the below screen shots we have EPG data in Media Center for the TV channels, I believe this is a first in Thailand using Windows 7 Media Center!

We used the Big Screen EPG beta application written by Niall Ginsbourg to import the XMLTV data in to Media Center.

I’d like to give Niall a massive thank you for his help with this project.

If anyone is interested in Live TV / PVR functionality within Windows Media Center here in Thailand, then please feel free to contact me and I can put you in touch with a CEDIA registered custom installation company in this region.

True Visions EPG data in Windows 7 Media Center

Click the screen shots for larger images.

EPG1

EPG2

EPG3

EPG4

There’s a mixture of English and Thai language in the EPG, depending on what data is being imported in to Media Center from the XMLTV grabber.

EPG5

EPG6

EPG7

We can potentially have up to a full month of program guide data.

EPG8

Record Live TV

EPG9

Mini Guide

LiveTV2

Program Info

LiveTV

Big Screen EPG is currently in beta state and will be a commercial application when it is released.

BSE1

We added logos to the majority of the TV Channels.

BSE2

Custom XMLTV Provider.

BSE3

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