<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/20/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">ICMan</b> <<a href="mailto:icman@eol.ca">icman@eol.ca</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;">
This is an opportunity. MythTV or a sub-group could put together a new<br>web site where we could collect listings directly from stations and<br>rebroadcast it in a standard format. Call it Universal Station<br>Programming or some such.
<br><br>I recognize that there are constraints, particularly in the area of<br>startup and operating capital. We could put advertising on the web<br>listings service, for example. Also, there is a TON of legwork to do -
<br>identifying stations and then selling them on the idea of giving us<br>their programming schedule on a daily or more frequent basis. We have<br>to make it easy for them.<br><br></blockquote></div><br>This is along what I was thinking:
<br><br>- Design and implement an open standard for tv guide data<br>- Provide distributed infrastructure to hold and transfer this data<br>- Provide an easy to use interface for broadcasters to add/edit their data to this interface
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