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

James Armstrong james at thearmstrongs.org
Mon May 24 10:25:26 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 would say Movie listings then extended weather. I am always having to 
jump on the internet at the last minute to see what movies are playing 
and it would be nice to just turn on the tv and check them out.

- James
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