UK Television

Television in the UK comes in a few flavours:

• Analog Broadcast (BBC1,2,ITV,C4 and Channel 5) - being phased out by 2010
• Digital Broadcast (Freeview and...)
• Sky Satellite
• Telewest Cable
• NTL Cable
• ...

UK listings are best served by using the xmltv tv_grab_uk_rt - which goes to a special page on the Radio Times website that they set up just for people like us (the BBC at their best ;) ) - or, if you're a DVB user, directly from the signal using tv_grab_dvb.

In either case, Digital Spy provide lots of useful UK TV info:

• Satellite EPG, and logos

For sky or NTL users here is a link to details of setting up xmltv in the UK:

• Sky Digi Box UK xmltv setup

For remote controlling a Sky or Sky+ box, one option is:

• Sky rflink lirc mini howto

Another option is:

• infrared option