[mythtv-users] Zap2It fiasco - what can we as users do?

jedi at mishnet.org jedi at mishnet.org
Wed Jun 27 23:06:51 UTC 2007


> Victor Perez wrote:
>> On 6/26/07, brian <turbo at talstar.com> wrote:
>>> A deal with TMS or any other listing provider (if any) is not good
>>> enough.
>>>
>>>    Says who?
>>
>>
>> Me, (IMHO) as long as mythtv depends on a third party commercial entity
>> to
>> work we risk these situations happening.
>
>    In the US (and Canada), most of the television stations are,
> themselves,
>    "third party commercial entities", and MythTV is dependent upon them to
>    supply content for recording in the first place.

    There are 6000 TV stations.

    There's one source of aggregated TV listings data.

    If Comedy Central wants to be a prick (or even it's larger
parent company), there's still plenty of content left.

>
>>>    They (the devs) seem to have managed the entire MythTV project, thus
>>> far,
>>>    without need of your (or any user's) stewardship.
>>
>>
>> And look where they've taken us.
>
>    ... to the point of meeting or surpassing the capabilities of most of
>    the commercially available alternatives to MythTV.  Shame on them!
>
>    and, while you're up there on your mount, let me shout up the following
> query:
>
>    What situation would, for example, Tivo, be in if their listings
> provider suddenly
>    yanked the rug out from under them, and gave them a 60-day "drop dead"
> date for
>    their listings data?  Would their devs be working on an alternative?
> (ans: probably so)
>    Would their users be demanding a daily status of their progress?  (ans:
> probably so, but
>    in that case, they'd be _paying_customers_ who might reasonably make
> such demands)

    OTOH, the "customers" here are people that can and will do for
themselves. Before we roll up our sleves and tackle the immediate
problem on our own it would be nice to determine if there is infact
an immediate problem.

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