[mythtv-users] EIT data in New York City OTA broadcasts.

[Michael T. Dean]

On 08/24/2015 08:33 PM, A. F. Cano wrote:
> All EIT data has the seemingly random issue that was
> being discussed in a thread earlier today about the program contents
> being mismatched to the actual show.  This issue apparently affects data
> received by Schedules Direct too.

No, Schedules Direct data, and the listings in the MythTV database when 
using Schedules Direct, do not have an issue where program descriptions 
are mismatched to the actual show.  Only when you have EIT overwriting 
parts of the data that Schedules Direct put in place do you have 
problems when using Schedules Direct, but those problems are caused by 
the unsupported (and completely unnecessary and useless) use of EIT on a 
channel whose listings you've configured to come from Schedules Direct 
(and not from EIT).

Using only Schedules Direct on a channel will give you great 
listings--the same ones used by Tivo and other STBs.  And I can 
guarantee that if Tivo users got mismatched listings after paying 
$15+/mo for those listings, they would complain and Tivo wouldn't stay 
in business.  So it's wonderful that we can get those exact same 
high-quality listings used by TiVo for only $25/yr thanks to Schedules 
Direct and thanks to all the F/LOSS program users who are members of 
Schedules Direct paying a small portion of Schedules Direct's cost to 
license the use of that listings data.

Mike