[mythtv-users] Switching from SchedulesDirect to EIT

[Allen Edwards]

With the switchover from Mythbuntu8 to Mythbuntu16 recently I initially had
SD and EIT on.  The EIT would erase all the good stuff on my schedules and
I would lose a week or more of data. Switching EIT off fixed it.

The other thing I love about SD is when I walk through Costco and the Dish
network guys ask how much I pay for TV I can say $25 a year. I love the
reactions. It is definitely worth the small fee.

Allen

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 8:04 AM Jay Harbeston <jharbestonus at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> > On Mar 12, 2019, at 1:09 AM, Mark Wedel <mwedel at sonic.net> wrote:
> >
> > On 03/11/2019 09:49 PM, Tom Harris wrote:
> > <snip>
> >> I have tweaked all the settings I could find.   But, no luck.
> >> I have read other reports of EIT usage with HDhomerun devices, but I'm
> beginning to doubt it.   It's a QAM (cable) device, and maybe the EIT data
> is not mirrored into the cable transmission.
> >> In any case, I decided to not mess with it and just renewed
> schedulesdirect instead.
> >
> > When first setting up, I used EIT data (getting it via OTA).  It mostly
> worked, but the quality of the data was inferior to schedulesdirect.
> >
> > Thins like episode ids, air dates, descriptions just were not as good.
> I'm not sure, but SD seems to 'standardize' the data no matter what channel
> is broadcasting it (so if show A is on channel 2, and repeated sometime
> later on channel 3, it will be properly marked as a dupe), where is with
> EIT, there may be differences so that reshowing may be considered different
> and thus re-recorded.
> >
> > In the end, I realized the nominal charge for SD was well worth the
> improved quality of the data (you get what you pay for, I suppose)
> >
>
>
> From what I have found when using EIT OTA, sometimes there is a
> description, sometimes not, whereas using SD nearly always gives a
> description.
>
> Also, I never get subtitle or season / episode over OTA.
>
> I use EIT OTA only for experimentation on a separate mythtv from my
> standard mythtv.
>
> I am using OTA as above from North Carolina.  Your mileage may vary
> depending on where you are.  SD is worth the $25 / year for good data.
>
> Regards,
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