[mythtv-users] Zap2it Labs Shutting Down?

Kevin Hulse jedi at mishnet.org
Thu Jun 21 01:44:30 UTC 2007


On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 09:30:00AM -0400, Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 09:13 -0400, Bill wrote:
> > Anyone from the mythtv development team planning to contact them to work out 
> > a deal?
> 
> Don't panic!
> 
> They contacted Issac just before they went public.
> 
> Some serious people are talking about licensing the data from
> TMS, but this will take a little time to work out. We have no
> idea of the number of MythTV users that use DataDirect listings,
> nor how much TMS charges for commercial access to their data
> stream.

	This would be a nice time for Shuttleworth or Google
to step forward. Shuttleworth could provide the data as a
service for Linux users and Google could just plain provide
an alternative data stream.

	It seems like Tribune has an effective monopoly here.

> 
> Another option is to get the data directly from the stations
> themselves, this was done by some MythTV users in Sweden with
> much success. There are fewer stations there, but there are
> also many more MythTV users in North America who are willing
> to do some legwork.
> 
> -- Daniel
> 
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