Package javax.tv.service.guide

Provides APIs to support electronic program guides (EPGs), including program schedules, program events and program ratings.

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Interface Summary

Interface	Description
ContentRatingAdvisory	ContentRatingAdvisory indicates, for a given program event, ratings for any or all of the rating dimensions defined in the content rating system for the local rating region.
ProgramEvent	ProgramEvent represents collection of elementary streams with a common time base, an associated start time, and an associated end time.
ProgramEventDescription	This SIElement provides a textual description of a ProgramEvent.
ProgramSchedule	This interface represents a collection of program events for a given service ordered by time.
ProgramScheduleListener	This interface is implemented by applications wishing to receive notification of changes to ProgramSchedule data.

Class Summary

Class	Description
ProgramScheduleChangeType	This class represents types of changes to program schedules.
ProgramScheduleEvent	A ProgramScheduleEvent notifies an ProgramScheduleListener of changes to program events detected in a ProgramSchedule.

Package javax.tv.service.guide Description

Provides APIs to support electronic program guides (EPGs), including program schedules, program events and program ratings. The ProgramSchedule interface can be used to retrieve the current ProgramEvent, the next ProgramEvent, or a ProgramEvent in the future. Each ProgramEvent can be queried for its name, start time and end time, description, and rating.

Rating related information is organized into rating regions such as countries, groups of countries, or arbitrary geographical regions. Each region may have a multiple rating dimensions such as the MPAA rating, FCC TV rating, DVB age-based rating, broadcaster specific rating, etc. Each dimension contains multiple levels; each ProgramEvent is labeled with one of these levels for all supported rating regions.