[mythtv-users] Zap2it Subscription

[Joe Votour]

Myself, I'd rather pay $1 or $2 per month for the
guide info than tell them what I'm recording.  (But if
they tried to make it higher than that, I'd stop using
their services all together).

It's not that I feel I'm doing anything wrong or
taboo, I just don't feel that they have a need for
that sort of information.  Nor would I want it being
sold to the highest bidder who would then find a way
to correlate it to my address (postal or e-mail), and
then flood my mailboxes with junk mail.

-- Joe

--- Andrew Plumb <aplumb at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 09:36:50 -0600, John Dickson
> <jman at neonramp.com> wrote:
> [deletia]
> > Ultimately I believe they will be charging. I
> think the pricing model for services that are
> offered from Tivo and the like will be similar to
> what one might expexct for home use. Protecting this
> service from use at the small business level may be
> their biggest challenge.
> [rest deletia]
> 
> Interesting info; thanks for the details, John.
> 
> I wonder if, in the interests of keeping access to
> the Zap2It service
> free for the MythTV personal-use community, there
> might some
> opportunity for an opt-inable uploading of scheduled
> recordings in
> exchange for accounts which don't expire.  Not every
> exchange of
> services need be in monetary form, as we all witness
> daily in the open
> source software community.
> 
> The MythTV development+user community provides a
> dynamic base set of
> data on which to test preference algorithms and the
> like.  Naturally,
> the data they gather will be heavily skewed toward
> tech/sci-fi
> material, but it's something versus nothing. :-)
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Andrew.
> 
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> 
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