| 摘要 |
The present invention generally relates to systems for the management of programmes for home entertainment devices such as televisions. More particularly it is concerned with apparatus, methods and software for scheduling such programmes. <??>A method of gathering information for the programme database (76), the database comprising programme information for a plurality of programmes, including for each programme the programme start time, a real channel or programme source the programme is available from at that start time, and programme identification information; the method comprising: i) accessing a web page; ii) storing the web page's uniform resource locator address; iii) searching the web page for information identifying a programme suitable for scheduling on the virtual channel and, if found, retrieving virtual channel schedule information for the programme, and adding the virtual channel schedule information to the programme database; iv) identifying a hypertext link from the web page to a new web page or, if none, returning to a previous web page until a link to a new Web page is found; and v) accessing the new web page and repeating steps (ii) to (iv). <IMAGE>
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