[mythtv-users] XMLTV is Broken in North America

Lan Barnes lan at falleagle.net
Tue Jul 1 11:35:28 EDT 2003


On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 11:39:04AM +0200, Ragnar Kjørstad wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 05:28:11AM -0400, Jason Cooper wrote:
> > Listings retrieval might be best pulled from individual channel sites.
> > each household pulls down one channel (discovery's listings should be
> > the same across the country, right?) and shares the listings... The big
> > advantage to this being fewer hits to each listing sight, which in turn
> > means staying below the radar.
> 
> Why not try to push the tv-channels into publishing the listings in
> xml-format?
> 
> It should be in their interest to make the information available.
> 

I would expect that they sell advertising space on their channel sites.
Besides, the general rule for PHBs is, "If it is not expressly permitted
it is forbidden."

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