[mythtv] Which one first -- movie listings or extended weather

Kevin Kuphal kuphal at dls.net
Sun May 23 23:36:48 EDT 2004


David Shay wrote:

>Thought I'd pose this question to the list.  I'm going to write two new 
>plugins, eventually, but wanted to see which one people might want to see 
>first.
>
>1)  Movie listings.  Zap2it appears to have a movie listing service as well as 
>their TV listings. 
>( http://docs.tms.tribune.com/tech/tmsdatadirect/zap2it/movies.html )
>This lets you put in a zipcode and radius and get back a ton of info on 
>theatres, showtimes, movie descriptions, pictures, even URLs to purchase 
>tickets or see the offical movie website. 
>
>2) An extended mythweather for the US.  The NWS has several new XML weather 
>services which let you get far more data beyond that which MSNBC provides.  
>This includes 3-hourly weather forecasts out to 7 days+.  Basically the kind 
>of information behind pages like: 
>
>http://www.erh.noaa.gov/cle/digital/021afmwk.htm
>http://www.erh.noaa.gov/cle/digital/021afm.htm
>http://www.srh.noaa.gov/data/forecasts/OHZ021.php
>
>Also, more complete information on watches/warnings/alerts are available in 
>XML, like this:
>
>http://www.weather.gov/alerts/
>
>
>Any ideas or preferences here? Hopefully get this in by the time .16 comes 
>out...
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I'd probably use the weather more than the movie listings but the latter 
is more "cool" factor since it's new and not just an enhancement of 
existing features.   Nice ideas for both though.

Kevin



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