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

[Gerald Schepens]

I do use mythweather, but I still have to vote for movie listings, which 
would be very cool. 

Are move listings going to require another web page scraper, and if so 
will it require changing every time the movie website changes formats?  
Or are movie listings already available from someone via xml?

Jarod Wilson wrote:

> 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...
>
>
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