[syborg]

Thanks this worked great (i decided to go with the tv catchup route then and have my pvr as a backup incase i really need to record something) , is there any way i can add other channels to the tv guide? canal + or other foreign streams or espn from cricfree etc?
also how about a categories option in the tv guide? (kids,movies,sports etc).
Great work

If you have a stream working through xbmc then it should be able to be associated with a epg listing in tvguide.
Do you already have these streams working in xbmc?
You would need to get the epg data from somewhere - there's a program mc2xml that works similarly to XMLtv GUI but covers more countries. That might be able to pull epg for the channels you're looking for then you can merge the files to give you the full epg.
For the categories, you would be best asking on the tvguide addon thread as a feature suggestion - I didn't make the addon so any additional features are best directed there.