[mythtv-users] Data Direct Subscription Expires?

[Brad Templeton]

On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 11:57:53AM -0700, Anthony Veale wrote:
> > My Data Direct subscription from zap2it labs expires on January 26th. I
> > can't find anything about renewal on their website. Does anyone out there
> > know how I renew this? Does it happen automatically?
> 
> A week or so before the expiration, they should send you an email notice
> which has a link to a survey.  Fill in the web form and submit it and
> they extend your subscription for 3 months.
> 
> At least that is how it has been working in the past.
> 


So, anybody speculate when they will decide to start charging?  If
they charge too much, people will go back to screen scraping and sharing,
but I doubt they want to do it free forever.   Tivo pretends they
are selling you listing data for $13/month but of course that price
covers much more than that.   I would venture they would get a good
business in the range of $25/year.  (You can subscribe to TV Guide
on paper for less, but it is ad supported.)