[mythtv-users] Zap2it Labs Shutting Down?

Brian J. Murrell brian at interlinx.bc.ca
Wed Jun 20 14:43:54 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 10:28 -0400, ryan patterson wrote:

> 
> $60/year for a few hundred kilobytes of text files?  That would be way
> over priced.

Heh.  Well that's what's nice about a free market: you can simply choose
not to buy it.  Or even better, license the data yourself from TMS and
re-distribute it at what you think is a more reasonable price for
consumers to pay for it.

>   Yes TMS puts effort into collecting and cataloging the data.  But
> they already give it away for free ( http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/).
> I may be missing something but that site doesn't even have a banner
> add.  I think $12/year would be reasonable.

You are obviously not in sales or marketing.  You are making the common
mistake of expecting to only pay what (you) think something is worth
rather than what the market will bear.  Almost everything you buy is
priced based on what a majority of it's consumers will pay for it, not
what it costs to produce plus some reasonable profit margin.

b.

-- 
My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server.

Brian J. Murrell
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