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

[Jarod Wilson]

On May 23, 2004, at 23:32, Jeremy Palenchar wrote:

> I live in Seattle.

Likewise.

> The weather people are ALWAYS wrong. I know more than
> they do - I look out the window.

Totally unrelated to anything Myth, but...
Andy Wappler can't hold his pops jock. Steve Pool is mediocre. Chicks 
dig Jeff Renner, but "Woody", as he is unaffectionately known by some 
in Seattle media circles, is one of the stiffest, stupidest, densest 
people around. Remember when he left KING some years back? I'm happy to 
say it was my dad that fired him. =) (Of course, a year later, my dad 
got fired and his replacement re-hired Woody, but hey).

> I check the weather in Seattle once per YEAR.

Yeah, I have to say I've never used MythWeather (except for demo 
purposes), the Weather Channel or any local forecasts for anything, 
ever. The weather often changes pretty drastically between my house and 
work anyhow. I care more about traffic. Speaking of which, the WSDOT 
has excellent traffic data one can scrape... However, a traffic plugin 
probably wouldn't work so great for 99% of the localities out there.

> I check movie listings once per week.

I refuse to go to the movies anymore. The audio setup in my home 
theater is better than most theaters and my couch is far more 
comfortable than most theater seats (save perhaps the new-ish cinema 
downtown). Finding a babysitter can be a pain too... Some theaters have 
me on the screen, but my HDTV (w/MythVideo) does a pretty good job. 
Only a select few movies are actually good enough to warrant the asking 
price to watch them in a theater anyhow.

> I vote for movie listings.

I'm mostly indifferent, but I'd lean toward movie listings also. Just 
happy to see more new and interesting stuff added, even if I won't use 
it much. Good for impressing guests! And good for the community, 
because there are others who certainly will use either or both of 
these.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Shay
> Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 7:38 PM
> To: mythtv-dev at mythtv.org; mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Subject: [mythtv] Which one first -- movie listings or extended weather
>
> 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...

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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