[olug] MythTV and DataDirect

[Kenny Kant]

ugh .. my heart dropped when I read this on Slashdot today.  This will
affect at least two TV systems in my house :(  I am hopeful that some
type of pay service will spawn from this.  I would gladly pay a
reasonable monthly fee for listings.  The idea was also suggested on
slashdot that we could petition our local stations to possibly provide
free listings and then some how create a centralized download for
others... I do no think that is very feasible ;) 

Kenny


On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 15:33 -0500, Jon Larsen 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
> 
> The announcement is on the Zap2it site:
> http://labs.zap2it.com
>