On 8/7/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">DaveD</b> <<a href="mailto:mythtv@guiplot.com">mythtv@guiplot.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Is there any way to get TV listings into a computer? There must be<br>something out there. I'm not very well informed, but I'm curious why<br>they didn't just start charging for the service. </blockquote><div>
<br>Because TMS does not want to deal directly with individual users and the customers that they do have (newspapers, cable compaines ...) agreements with pay thousands of dollars per month to TMS for the listings. <br> </div>
<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Are there too many<br>alternatives in the mainstream (BeyondTV, ATI and MCE have listings
<br>services) for them to compete with?</blockquote></div><br>Some of these are in the same boat.<br><br>Although there really is not that much info the website for the only alternative is:<br><br><a href="http://www.schedulesdirect.org/">
http://www.schedulesdirect.org/</a><br><br>John