[mythtv-users] Zap2it Labs Shutting Down?

OverlordQ overlordq at gmail.com
Thu Jun 21 01:59:40 UTC 2007


Kevin Hulse wrote:
> 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

There is a very easy and scraper friendly way to get the information
from TVGuide.

Just throwing that out there.

-- Brent


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