[mythtv-users] LxMSuite.com to provide services to the Myth community

Nate Thompson nightstrm at gmail.com
Fri May 6 15:37:28 UTC 2005


Once a compatible non-CVS version of MythTV is released, I'll
definately take a look at what they have to offer. Does anyone know if
they will be releasing any widescreen-specific themes?

Nate

On 5/6/05, David Brieck Jr. <dbrieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 5/6/05, Ryan A. Carris <racarris at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Why the heck do you feel you deserve free listings from Tribune?  I
> > think that they have every right to charge us.  They charge Comcast,
> > DirectTV, Tivo and everyone else.  They spend money on servers,
> > bandwidth, system administators, and people to input the data.  Do you 
> > expect them to give this away for free?
> 
> I would have no problem with them charging for the data but if they are
> planning to do it under the veil of helping open source I disagree. If they
> want to charge they should come right out and say so.
> 
> > They have been as open and generous as they can.  If you don't agree
> > with that statement, I suggest you try and use one of the listing 
> > scappers, like we used to have to do and like the rest of the world
> > uses.  It isn't always fun.  Better yet, why don't you sit around
> > every Sunday and type up the TV Guide and upload it for me to use.
> > Just make sure you type up the Chicago Comcast listings, but I don't 
> > need the digital cable, so you can save some time and skip those.
> 
> When they decide to charge for listing I'll be signing up, none of us will
> have a choice. Oh, and why don't we have a choice? Because they have a
> stranglehold on the tv and movie listings here in america. Where else can
> you find this data? No where and that's because everyone uses them, yahoo,
> microsoft, and every newspaper site out there.
> 
> Once again, if this were Microsoft you'd be bitching along with me as well.
> 
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