[olug] MythTV and DataDirect

[Adam Haeder]

Where do these services get their data?

http://www.sagetv.com/
http://www.snapstream.com/
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/mediacenter/default.mspx

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Adam Haeder
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On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Will Langford wrote:

> On 6/20/07, Jon Larsen <relayer at levania.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Zap2It will be discontinuing their free XML DataDirect service on Sept 1st
> > 2007.  This will impact the program data for MythTV.  The probable
> > fallback method for getting program data will be HTML scraping.
> >
> > You can read more about it in the following thread:
> > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/275350
> >
>
>
> I read the gossamer thread.  Not one mention of anyone setting up some kind
> of LLC or similar that takes donations so that it can possibly afford a
> license for information or similar.  Honestly... unless you pay for software
> that has listings available in it, then you're typically time based.  And if
> the comunity goes for web scraping, you're just gonna piss of whoever's
> providing the content. Given the mythtv user base size, surely there'd be
> enough people willing to pony up some dough.
>
> -Will
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