[mythtv] Obtaining TV Listing Data and also Gist.com Closing

[Mike Javorski]

On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 10:52, Dwight Hubbard wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 02:41:08PM -0700, Bruce Markey wrote:
> > [ quoting me ]
> >> > TitanTV.  They are, in fact, already working with UltimateTV, which
> >> is a GPL project, and I gather from some comments on their website,
> >> in conjunction with the tone of the message at
> >>
> >> Huh? Microsoft has a product named "UltimateTV". There are
> >> many pages on the web that have "UltimateTV" and "GPL" on
> >> the same page but I'm not finding anything that says something
> >> called "UltimateTV" is open source.
> >
> > Perhaps I've misremembered the name -- as the portion of my post which
> > you've clipped noted, their website is not answering the phone
> > tonight...
> >
> >> > Well, crap.  Can't paste in a link,
> >>
> >> Could you type it in please? ;-)
> >
> > which is why I couldn't paste in a link.
> >
> > Damn good thing you put that smiley there, pardner.
> >
> > They're partnered with close to a dozen PVR companies, one of which is
> > "UltimateGuide" (sorry).  Go to
> >
> > http://www.titantv.com/ttv/Home/Home.aspx
> >
> > and click the top left link ("PVR Support"); I can't get a real link;
> > their website designer is too clever by half.
> 
> I'll have to tell him when I see him next time.
> 
> > The commentary from the president that I was talking about *does* have a
> > real link; it's at:
> >
> > http://www.titantv.com/ttv/menu/note.aspx
> >
> > "We developed TitanTV.com on the premise that no viewer should have to
> > pay to see what's on TV. More importantly, if you're willing to record a
> > show to watch it at a time more convenient to your hectic lifestyle, you
> > shouldn't have to pay for that recording either. When you watch, the
> > advertiser wins.regardless of whether you watch while the program is
> > being broadcast."
> >
> > That sounds to me like they ought to be on "our" side.
> >
> > Cheers,
> 
> I recall the web developer for titantv being a bit frustrated that they
> where being forced to implement the same encryption crap all the other
> services seem to be implementing (that was two months ago so my memory is
> a bit foggy though)
> 

Thats usually just to prevent screen scraper type activities.. In my
opinion, something completely reasonable.



> Since decisionmark is a subsidiary of a newspaper I suspect they are also
> getting their listings from the tribune.
> 
> 
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