Oops! Sorry! I think I did not elaborate my point clearly. That's why some of the grabbers continue to get broken because the companies that own that info want to charge for it and don't want to give it away for free. I would venture to guess is that it is a legal question about gaining access to TV guide info thru xmltv. As can be witnessed by their various International user forums. As it stands now their customer base is not limmited to North America. If it is too difficult then someone needs to build a better plugin. They have provided the path to get the info in there. SageTV provides a connection to the tv tv services Guide Data also. Stephane has built one and from the posts in that thread it looks like it works very well. But it is up to the plugin builders to get it in and get it in easily. Is it any wonder why Sage doesn't want to support XMLTV by building it in? They have provided a way of getting the info in from any xmltv source. Provided your xmltv data are conforming to specifications and contains correct information about your timezone, you should check this box and leave the correction to 0 hours.Here is a test report from the latest grabbers that work with XMLTV. When this option is checked all times will be converted to UTC and corrected to your local timezone. Otherwise it will be ignored and assumed that all times are local times. If Apply timezone compensation when loading tvguide.xml is checked, the timezone information inside tvguide.xml will be used. This change implements a time zone correction to save users from manually having to set the time zone for DST. For example, users in Central Europe had to change Apply timezone compensation when loading tvguide.xml from 1 to 2 when their time zone changed from GMT+1 to GMT+2 during Daylight Savings Time. The XMLTV plugin used to import EPG listings without converting the channel's and program's time zone to the local time zone.

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