| # | Name | Email | Comments |
|---|
| 1 | Rick Kirk | rick@internode.on.net | Restricting this information in this form is rediculous. PVR technology is here to stay, are we to continue programming our machines as we did VCR's?
Embrace the technology, put effort into making it work for you.
The Movie Industry and the RIAA failed to embrace technology at great cost. Will you be the same??? |
| 2 | Fraser Whyte | fjw999@yahoo.co.uk | |
| 3 | David Downs | downzy@optusnet.com.au | Other countries have this information broadcast in their DVB streams ...maybe the Australian networks should research the impact it's had on them. I'm sure it would not be negative. |
| 4 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 5 | Paul Buttie | pb-yb@bigpond.net.au | Come on guys move with the times this is the fututre of television. |
| 6 | Paul Buttie | pb-yb@bigpond.net.au | Come on guys move with the times this is the fututre of television. |
| 7 | Paul Buttie | pb-yb@bigpond.net.au | Come on guys move with the times this is the fututre of television. |
| 8 | Nyall Dawson | nyall@soundslikechicken.com.au | |
| 9 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 10 | Anton Hughes | anton@payless.com.au | It is disappointing the Australian Broadcasters fell they have the right to keep Australia in the dark ages. Not all progress is bad. |
| 11 | Dennis Malseed | dmalseed@bigpond.net.au | |
| 12 | Anonymous | Anonymous | Until we got proper EPG the only real alternative is to ditch the networks all together and just download the programs we missed. |
| 13 | Drew Jackson | drewljackson@gmail.com | |
| 14 | Danny | ipetitions.epg_oz@vbap.com.au | Wholeheartedly support this petition. If the FTA commercial networks believe advertising revenue will suffer through the use of an EPG, then perhaps we should have fewer commercial FTA networks. |
| 15 | Peter Adams | adams_pr@hotmail.com | Why oh why do TV stations in Australia always take the hard road and make customers suffer because they are too scared to embrace new ideas. |
| 16 | John Trembath | john@trembath.com | It's about time the Australian TV industry grew up. Other countries provide free EPG, why can't OZ? Surely Microsoft would benefit as the EPG makes the experience! |
| 17 | Anonymous | Anonymous | Why do we always have to be behind the rest of the world in everything |
| 18 | Grant Thomson | grant.thomson@gmail.com | "You hear that Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability" You can't hold back the evolution of the digital age. |
| 19 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 20 | Anonymous | Anonymous | We need to be proactive toward new technologies and embrace them accordingly - rather, corporations are hindering this natural and explosive progression. |
| 21 | Scott Donovan | Scott.Donovan@live.net.au | Even the french have this capability. |
| 22 | Julius Roberts | jroberts@banjos.com.au | Hi, an EPG makes our software work and us happy people. we watch more TV because of it! :) we will work it out one way or another, but it would be great if we could all just get along like they do in other countries
kind regards, Jules |
| 23 | Tigh Bottrell | tigh_b@hotmail.com | As said in the petition this is a huge part of the "experience" |
| 24 | Gareth Gadd | garethjgadd@hotmail.com | blocking access to an EPG is counter productive, people xan and will still obtain the data in a similar fashion to how they are now. Allowing the guide would get mor epeople watching more shows on more channels. |
| 25 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 26 | Gareth Gadd | garethjgadd@hotmail.com | blocking access to an EPG is counter productive, people xan and will still obtain the data in a similar fashion to how they are now. Allowing the guide would get mor epeople watching more shows on more channels. |
| 27 | Gareth Gadd | garethjgadd@hotmail.com | blocking access to an EPG is counter productive, people xan and will still obtain the data in a similar fashion to how they are now. Allowing the guide would get mor epeople watching more shows on more channels. |
| 28 | Andrew Stephen | andrew@byteline.com.au | |
| 29 | Anonymous | Anonymous | How the hell can the name of shows be protected, Australia is always behind the rest of the world. Wake up. |
| 30 | Dylan Smith | dylan.smith@internode.on.net | |
| 31 | Tim Kitto | tim@onestoppcshop.com.au | Most countries in the world have a working EPG system. Why can't we?? |
| 32 | Rob Freeman | robertfreeman1@hotmail.com | |
| 33 | D Clark | dclark@esriaustralia.com.au | |
| 34 | Ross Stacey | rosco99@bigpond.net.au | Considering both ABC and SBS are available on Austar Digital and Foxtel and Foxtel IQ has ability to record the programs I find it ludicrous that FTA TV does not have a program guide. |
| 35 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 36 | Anthony Callinan | ancallinan@optushome.com.au | |
| 37 | John Whitmore | whitmore.spam@gmail.com | Lack of an EPG means I cannot record programs. This means the various stations ratings will go down. Surely this outways any risk of piracy.
Also, regarding piracy, most shows shown in Australia have already been broadcast in the USA. This means these programs are already available online (if I choose to participate in piracy). Therefore how can an EPG make the piracy problem worse? It would be no worse than the old "habit" of giving a friend a VCR copy of a program.
John |
| 38 | Anonymous | Anonymous | Now that the new copyright laws have been passed allowing recording of TV programs there is no reason to stop EPG information being published, this information is no different to the old G-Code functionality in VCRs. |
| 39 | DOn Truman | don@hotmail.com | |
| 40 | Peter Rowntree | petejo@yahoo.com.au | |
| 41 | Peter Grimshaw | info@btmi.com.au | EPGs are a core component of Digital TV and should be freely available |
| 42 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 43 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 44 | Michael Seow | michael@eaglehawk.com.au | |
| 45 | Peter | seaman13@hotmail.com | We need to get out of the 90's. Australia shouldnt be watching the rest of the world in regards to technology we should be leading it |
| 46 | Dion D C | dion.d.c@hotmail.com | |
| 47 | Laurence Crowhurst | laurence@crowhurst.info | |
| 48 | Jon Morris | ranmasaotomes@gmail.com | With guides being made online in many different forms. Could we please have ones that work properly on our other lelectronic devices. I feel that I am missing out. |
| 49 | Brett Hampson | brett.hampson@db.com | TV stations have more to gain than loose by supplying an EPG if they opened their eyes to the possibilties. |
| 50 | Cameron McShane | cam_dav_mac@hotmail.com | It makes sense to provide this information to the public in electronic format. After all, you want the public to watch TV don't you? |
