Mitsubishi Licenses TV Guide Daily for TVs
Consumer-Electronics Manufacturer to Launch Interactive Programming Guide
By Todd Spangler -- Multichannel News, 7/18/2007 7:06:00 AM
Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America expanded its licensing agreement with Gemstar-TV Guide International to be able to incorporate TV Guide Daily and other interactive program guides into digital televisions for the U.S. market.
Mitsubishi expects to begin launching TV Guide Daily beginning this summer in a range of LCD flat-panel television sets, including its Diamond models.
TV Guide Daily is a simplified version of Gemstar-TV Guide's full-scale programming guide, featuring 24 hours of program listings that populate more quickly than the full-scale guide. The guide provides listings data for over-the-air and cable services. The data arrive daily, via an over-the-air signal.
Under its existing agreement with Gemstar-TV Guide, Mitsubishi has been shipping TVs with the current version of TV Guide's IPG, TV Guide On Screen.
News Corp. is the biggest shareholder in Gemstar-TV Guide, which put itself up for sale earlier this month.
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Tv guide daily on the mitsubishi LT42-/52-149 is limited???
Hell, I can't even get the dang thing to work.
A cheapo tv I recently bought at Walmart, for the bedroom worked right off the bat.
for the Guide on the Mitsubishi I had to resort to adding a Cable box.
Bill Keasberry - 9/25/2009 5:34:15 PM EDT -
I purchased the LT-46149 for two specific reasons, the sound projector and the TV-Guide On Screen. The sound projector works good, but the TV-Guide is one hell of a disappointment. For $2,700, you would think that a fully functional TV-Guide program would be incorporated into the TV. After discovering that TV Guide Daily is a small portion of the TV-Guide programming, it has turned out to be very limited in use, frustrating, and almost useless. It\'\'\'\'s my fault for not doing the research and finding the difference between TV-Guide Daily and TV-Guide On Screen. With this knowledge, this would have been a no sale on my part. For the cost of this TV, it\'\'\'\'s sad that Mitsubishi has produced such a disappointment in one of their products.
