The argument, as has been posted on one of the many "zap2it labs going away" splinter threads, is that before the sun sets on the day the advertisement-loaded data service is launched, there will be a mythtv-0.21_no_ads
version in svn.<br><br>The counter-argument, however, is to consider, given firefox and addblock, how many people still stare at ads and pop-ups on their web browsers...<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/21/07,
<b class="gmail_sendername">Srikant Sharma</b> <<a href="mailto:srikant.sharma@gmail.com">srikant.sharma@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>If TMS doesn;t bite this bait, I am sure Google or Yahoo will leverage on this.</div>
<div>There is a killing to be made here. In any case mythtv will be safe.</div><div><span class="e" id="q_1134f6bcd799050e_1">
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/21/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Srikant Sharma</b> <<a href="mailto:srikant.sharma@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">srikant.sharma@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div>Just a wild thought !!!!</div>
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<div>The major complaint by zap2it/TMS is that there are commercial freeloaders of the guide data who are eating up the revenue.</div>
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<div>What if we make it beneficial for zap2it/TMS to have as many freeloaders as possible.</div>
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<div>See, the descriptions of programs are majority of manual work for zap2it. What if zap2it carries advertisements inside this description field? The ads can be simple test messages. For zap2it then it will be a new revenue model. I would not mind seeing/reading ads inside description field.
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<div>Now, it is in their best interest to distribute this data as widely as possible. The ads can be targeted ads.</div>
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<div>One step further, mythtv can make a committment to support the weblinks present in theses ads. If a user wants to navigate to those webpages, at the click of a button a web page can open up. </div>
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<div>I believe this ad supported model has a lot of profit to be made.</div>
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<div>Srikant</div>
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