[mythtv-users] OT: Zap2it Labs Email

[Donavan Stanley]

On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 14:08:54 -0800, Geoff Scott
<geoff.scott.mail at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 16:16:05 -0500, Bill Chmura wrote:
> >
> > They could just be thinking the same thing as us...  what is the contingency
> > plan if it does go away.   I have no idea what it would be...
> >
> >
> 
> Quite honestly, this is my concern.  The Myth community relies
> exclusively (to my knowledge) on Zap2it.  What if they went away?
> What is the back up?  What if they charged?  Who are their
> competitors?  They do a terrific job, and I love their service, but
> woe be to the community if, for some reason, some day, they went away.
> 
> Are there back up plans?  Does Zap2it have stamina?

Where were you before Data Direct?  One of the reasons DD came about
was because the screen scrapers being used to pull their data which
cost them a ton of bandwidth.  IF DD gets shut down screen scrapers
are alwasy an option again.  Though the data isn't nearly as good.