[mythtv-users] Willing to pay for better listings?? - US

[Jeff Monks]

On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Ethan McDonald wrote:

> I personally would not either. [pay for listings]

As another person pointed out, perhaps the way to think of this is, "How 
much would you pay if (when) Zap2It's listings are no longer available?"  

Sure, nobody wants to pay when you can get it free, but it's only a matter 
of time before Zap2It either starts charging or goes out of business, or 
finds some other way to block automated listings retreival like XMLTV 
does.  Personally, I don't find TiVo's monthly fee that high (a little 
pricey, perhaps, but not insanely expensive), I just prefer the 
flexibility and privacy of using something like Myth.  I can burn DVDs of 
recordings, edit out commercials, etc, without someone logging every 
keypress.  That's worth more to me than saving a few bucks a month on 
program listings.  If TiVo offered everything Myth offers, and had an 
ironclad privacy policy, I would never have spent all those hours building 
my Myth setup.

> I would be nice if I could go through the entire list and set my preferences
> as to what I do don't want to browse.
> Also I should be able to set an option so that MythTV will only bother
> filling the database with the channels I selected as viewable.
> Perhaps this could be added to the Mythtvsetup.

Just comment out entries in the listing file in the .xmltv directory of 
the user that runs mythfilldatabase.  I do this, and it never fetches 
listings for crap like the home shopping channels, and I never see them on 
the guide.