[mythtv] Obtaining TV Listing Data and also Gist.com Closing

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 07:42:22PM -0700, Mike Javorski wrote:
> Isaac, have you found any leads on new sources for this data? Maybe we
> kneed to go to TMS as a group and ask them if we can arrange for access
> to the data. Problem is I doubt they are rigged for dealing with
> hundreds of users accessing their servers, so an intermediary would be
> required. To bad all the players are afraid to play.. Maybe we can get
> them to make a xmltv access area for zap2it.com like gist.com had.. that
> would be slick, but unlikely to happen.

ISTM that someone ought to investigate Decisionmark, the company behind
TitanTV.  They are, in fact, already working with UltimateTV, which is
a GPL project, and I gather from some comments on their website, in
conjunction with the tone of the message at

...

Well, crap.  Can't paste in a link, 

> Thanks for stopping by. TitanTV.com is being updated and is unavailable
> at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
> Please check back later for site availability. 

which makes me nervous... since I know how to avoid every being seen to
be offline; I'd assume they could, too.

Well, if they get their head out, they might be good -- they have
*good* commentary and ep titles, and useful stuff like that.

Cheers,
-- jra
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