[mythtv-users] Zap2it Labs Shutting Down?

[Cole Brodine]

No offense, but at this point in time, discussing price points for an
imaginary TV listing service is probably pretty pointless.  I think we would
be better off trying to develop some sort of business model to decide if it
is even feasible at what people would consider a "reasonable" or "modest"
price.

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On 6/20/07, ryan patterson <ryan.goat at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 6/20/07, David Schmidt <david.schmidt.in.dallas at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 6/20/07, Cole Brodine <cbrodine at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I'm not sure what their commercial license says you are allowed to do
> > with
> > > the data.  Hopefully you can redistribute as you please and then the
> > $5 year
> > > thing would be completely feasible.  I think you would have to
> > remember that
> > > the servers and bandwidth to redistribute would have to be maintained
> > and
> > > paid for also.  You might have to pay at least one person's salary
> > yearly as
> > > well.  So you are probably looking at something much higher then $5 a
> > year.
> >
> > $5/year is nothing.  I was thinking something in the $5/quarter to
> > $5/month range.
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> $60/year for a few hundred kilobytes of text files?  That would be way
> over priced.  Yes TMS puts effort into collecting and cataloging the data.
> But they already give it away for free ( http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/).
> I may be missing something but that site doesn't even have a banner add.  I
> think $12/year would be reasonable.
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> >
> > > Hopefully Isaac or whomever they talked to can work something
> > out.  I'll
> > > wait in the shadows to see what the developer's solution is.
> > >
> >
> > And hopefully something we can get online before the (literal) drop
> > dead date of 9/1!!
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