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In the
TV guides online review we look at
the choice in online TV guides available today, along with
the
key features they offer. We then
select the best sites in a top 10
directory and review our top choices
from the online TV guide market. You get a one-stop summary
to the best TV Guides online.
TV
guides have evolved from the early
days of just providing listings to
giving the audience whatever would
make the TV experience more
interesting. That evolution continues
today as they now go through the phase of
transitioning from a totally printed
format to the Net, and all the
opportunities that new media offers.
TV
Guides Online: Offering a more informed and
enriched TV experience
Online
TV information can now include much
more than the medium of print could
allow in the traditional TV guide
until now. Up to date information or
streaming video for example, that
could never be provided before in
print form, is now available online.
This opens new doors for new features
like like the latest TV ratings, up to
date news and events, and more
media-rich applications like streaming
interviews with stars.
One of the biggest
benefits of publishing this type of
information online is that the user can get
as much or as little information as they want
because of the ability to link and
search deeper into the "information
pyramid". For a TV guide this
means the ability to get much more information by
following links to more detail on say,
a celebrity profile or an episode
summary, or as little information as
say simply skimming the listings in
summary. This makes the online TV guide not
only an essential for the serious TV
buff, but a useful reference for
anyone.
So the
Web gives the TV Guide another
dimension that could never really be
provided in a printed publication, and
this dimension can be seen in the leading TV guides reviewed here.
The end result of
this trend of developing this new dimension
online is a
more informed and more enriched TV
experience to both the TV buff and
casual user alike.
Each one of
these TV guides reviewed here has a
slightly different approach to the
function of presenting TV schedules, and this
is the focus of the TV guides choice review, so you can use this page
as a one-stop reference in choosing
which one of the leading online TV guides is the one for you.
We have taken
the top sites for the category of
"TV
guides" and
rated them from the users perspective, looking mainly
for the features that have become the
most sought after, those that provide the best user
experience, and those that offer the
best all-round information for an
online TV guide.
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