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By navigating through an EPG on a receiving device, users can see more information about the current program and about future programs. When EPGs are connected to [[PVR]]s, or Personal Video Recorders they enable a viewer to plan their viewing and record broadcast programs to a hard disk for later viewing.
Typical elements of an EPG comprise a [[graphical user interface]] which enable the display of program titles, descriptive information such as a synopsis, actors, directors, year of production and so on, the [[channel (communications)|channel]] name and the programmes on offer from [[virtual channel|subchannel]]s such as pay-per-view and VOD or [[video-on-demand]] services, program start times, genres and other descriptive [[metadata]]. The information is typically displayed on a [[grid]] with the option to select more information on each program. Radio EPGs offer simpler, more [[text]]-based displays of artist, album and track title information.
An EPG allows the viewer to browse programme summaries, [[search]] by genre or [[television station|channel]], immediate access to the selected program, reminders, and [[parental control]] functions. If the device is capable of it, an EPG can enable one-touch [[television recording|recording]] of programs, as some [[DirecTV]] [[IRD]]s can do with a [[VCR]] using an attached [[infrared]] [[emitter]] (which [[emulate]]s a [[remote control]]).
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