[mythtv-users] OT: Zap2it Labs Email

[David Levine]

On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 16:48:08 -0500, Preston Crow
<pc-mythtv04 at crowcastle.net> wrote:
> Personally, I still want a screen-scrubber that goes to each network's
> web site.  They often have more episode information there than what the
> provide to the services.  I've had this problem with Comedy Central with
> South Park recently, and I've seen it with Cartoon Network in the past.

I've always wondered why there isn't some standard for this.  It seems
to me that it would be in a network's best interest to get its
scheduling data out there to whoever wants it, and that the network
would want the data to be as accurate and as detailed as possible...
after all, such good data would help potential viewers decide to watch
the network's shows.

Basically, if each network and local station published their schedule
data online in their standard format, all you'd need to do is write a
program that knew your channel lineup and aggregated the standardized
feeds.  (Local stations, I imagine, would have a schedule that
"extended" the schedule of their national network... might be exactly
the same, but might have some variation... i.e. in New York City, I'd
download the WNBC local data instead of the national NBC data)