[mythtv-users] EPG in Australia?

[Daniel Hall]

IceTV was started as there was no EPG in Australia. The main man behind
IceTV is Peter Vogel (one of the inventors of the Fairlight CMI). But no we
are definitely our own company. :)

I think for MS the biggest stopping point would be going to all the effort
(and cost) of setting up an EPG service from scratch just as a value added
service for MCE (sure it's pretty damn important but not really critical for
MCE).

Daniel

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Dean Collins
Sent: Tuesday, 25 October 2005 4:54 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] EPG in Australia?

Kind of curious myself about how you are able to create from scratch and
not Microsoft?

I always assumed you had setup a sweet heart licensing deal with the
networks (or you were a partially owned consortium like Fly Buys).

Dean


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Paul Andreassen
> Sent: Tuesday, 25 October 2005 1:51 AM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] EPG in Australia?
> 
> On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 03:21 pm, Daniel Hall wrote:
> > Well actually, what I said is correct. When you say people are
'trying'
> to
> > copyright the guide data this is not fully true, it *IS* copyrighted
> data,
> > just because a piece of work is published online does not mean it
cannot
> be
> > copyrighted.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Daniel.
> >
> 
> How is it that you can get guide data yet a tiny company like
Microsoft
> can't?
> 
> Paul
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