[mythtv] where to configure datadirect?

[Michael T. Dean]

Bruce Markey wrote:

> What it boils down to is that Zap2it correctly sees that it
> is inefficient to have thousands of people each scraping hundreds
> of web pages each night. There is more load on their servers and
> no benefit to advertisers because no one is seeing any ads.
>
> Their solution is to bundle all the data in an XML format that
> users can grab in one 'hit' if they register. Zap2it benefits
> because there is less unnecessary traffic to their web servers
> and they at least can gather demographic info from the registrations
> and surveys. Users benefit because they get the data in seconds
> rather than minutes, feel less like cheaters because they are
> registered users rather than scraping web pages, and the data
> is much more complete.

And I think it's important to note that although Zap2it could have taken 
the approach that many other companies have and set up their servers to 
refuse requests from XMLTV users, they instead chose to continue to 
support XMLTV users, make a solution that's more complete and ~25x 
faster than before, and make it available for free.

Mike
(not affiliated with--just impressed with--Zap2it :)