[mythtv-users] Zap2it Labs Shutting Down?

[David Schmidt]

On 6/20/07, Daniel Kristjansson <danielk at cuymedia.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 09:13 -0400, Bill wrote:
> > Anyone from the mythtv development team planning to contact them to work out
> > a deal?
>
> Don't panic!

Surely you jest!!  This is my **Myth** system we're talking about here!!  (-;

>
> They contacted Issac just before they went public.
>
> Some serious people are talking about licensing the data from
> TMS, but this will take a little time to work out. We have no
> idea of the number of MythTV users that use DataDirect listings,
> nor how much TMS charges for commercial access to their data
> stream.

Good to know, thanks.  I concur with others that I would be willing to
pay a *reasonable* monthly or quarterly fee to get the same feed I get
now....

As far as number of users, I'd think TMS would know, since we, IIRC,
had to enter a Myth application code when creating our own Zap2It
IDs....

>
> Another option is to get the data directly from the stations
> themselves, this was done by some MythTV users in Sweden with
> much success. There are fewer stations there, but there are
> also many more MythTV users in North America who are willing
> to do some legwork.
>

As a programmer by trade, sounds impractical nationwide.  To get local
programming, you'd have to have a (custom) scraper for every station
in every market....