[mythtv-users] Zap2it Labs Shutting Down?

[Michael Jones]

At $500/month, or $6000 a year it would require 1200 subscribers  
paying $5 year to break even...

I would think this is completely do-able?

I don't know just how many people there are out there running MythTV  
but this would be pretty easy to put together.. and of course.. the  
more people are willing to pay for the service, the number to break  
even would be much less.


On Jun 20, 2007, at 9:41 AM, Cole Brodine wrote:

> On 6/20/07, Michael Jones <mythlist at michaelandholly.com> wrote:
> If we are unable to use Zap2It Labs for in it's current form, and  
> Zap2It is not willing to create a "personal subscription" option,  
> what's the possibility of creating a group to purchase the rights  
> to the data as a "commercial" provider and provide it to the MythTV  
> community for a low/modest subscription fee?
>
> I'd be willing to work with creating this company/group?
>
> I would guess this would depend on what Zap2it charges for the  
> data?  Could be rather pricey.
>
> On Jun 20, 2007, at 9:27 AM, Jim Scott wrote:
>
>> On 6/20/07, Greg Estabrooks < greg at phaze.org> wrote:
>> > Anyone from the mythtv development team planning to contact them  
>> to work out
>> > a deal?
>>
>> All Options are being discussed, but nothing has been decided at  
>> this point.
>>
>> > I would be willing to pay a modest fee yearly fee for the  
>> service if they
>> > would continue it.
>>
>> Personally so would I. The information has value to me, and it's  
>> worth a few
>> dollars to me to have it.
>>
>>
>> I need the listings. I'd pay to download them or help work on a  
>> project to provide listings to the community.
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> It's my understanding that they cost somewhere around $500 per  
> month for a commercial license to there listings.  I saw that one  
> the Zap2it forums, so I'm not sure of the accuracy.
>
> I would pay or help create something that would get me the listings  
> I need.
>
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