[mythtv-users] using TV.com to gather information..

Jo Shields directhex at apebox.org
Fri Aug 5 13:02:24 UTC 2005


Preston Crow wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 05:00, Dudely Smith wrote:
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>>Like using IMDB to gather information about movies, I would like to
>>use tv.com to gather information about episodes (episodes i've got
>>hosted on my machine), I'm not using the PVR side of things, just
>>downloaded episodes on the HDD. How is this done?
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>I expect this isn't getting attention because the developers want to
>avoid anything that suggests that they're encouraging copyright
>violations.  With MythVideo, the assumption is that you're ripping
>videos off of DVDs you already own, so it's not unreasonable to add
>features to support that.  However, I don't see an equivalent reason for
>TV episodes.
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>So if you can think of a way to ask for this feature to make it sound
>useful without involving downloading, then you might be on to something.
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>--PC
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You could always be using MythVideo to rip videos of DVDs you already 
own... of TV series? Does nobody have any Family 
Guy/Futurama/Simpsons/whatever DVDs?

--Jo Shields


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