[mythtv-users] Zap2it Labs Shutting Down?

Derek Meek thekazan at gmail.com
Thu Jun 21 17:12:33 UTC 2007


Jake Palmer wrote:
>> From: Michael Jones <mythlist at michaelandholly.com>
>> Reply-To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>> To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Zap2it Labs Shutting Down?
>> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:47:37 -0400
>>
>> This sounds less and less feasible to create a "provider" to the
>> community using zap2it data..
>>
>> At 12K /mo @ $10/yr it would take more than 14K users to break even..
>>
>>     
>
> I think most people would be willing to pay more than $10 a year.  My only 
> alternative is to pay my cable provider $10 a MONTH for a crappy DVR.  I 
> don't think $5 a month is an unreasonable amount.  That drops the number to 
> more like 3K to break even.
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was just talking about this in channel.. 3k subscribers at $5month is
$15k.. that's $12k for the TMS data then $3k/month for hardware,
bandwidth, collocation

i bet the bandwidth isn't too big and you would only have to buy a
dedicated server from 1and1.com

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Derek "Kazan" Meek
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