[mythtv-users] Zap2it Labs Shutting Down?

Braindead Braindead at diablops.com
Wed Jun 20 13:30:06 UTC 2007


On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:17:19 +0100
Tim Phipps <mythtv-users at phipps-hutton.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

> On Wednesday 20 June 2007 10:54 am, William Munson wrote:
> > Does not surprise me in the least. It costs them big $$ to purchase
> > the info and we pirate the info for free (Yes I know they let us
> > with the labs.)
> 
> I never did understand why listings cost money, after all if viewers 
> can't/don't get listings they won't watch your programme. I don't pay
> for all the adverts on web pages. Does the industry really think that
> people will just turn on the TV to a random channel and buy whatever
> appears in the ads?

My wife's PC has Windoze MCE on it (I know evil, but it works for her).. and we aren't paying for the listings there.  I'm not sure if MS is kicking back money from the sales of Windoze.  Just pointing that out.


More information about the mythtv-users mailing list