[mythtv-users] Zap2It fiasco - what can we as users do?
brian
turbo at talstar.com
Tue Jun 26 21:34:37 UTC 2007
Victor Perez wrote:
> On 6/22/07, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>>
>> Michael Jones wrote:
>> The best thing he could tell you is: Just wait and see what happens. We
>> have already been told that the devs are working on it. I can't think of
>> any group better qualified to look into the matter, or more likely to
>> succeed.
>>
>>
> What are the devs working on?, we need to know.
Actually, no.. you don't *need* to know. You (probably) didn't know what
they were working on before the zap2it announcement, either.
> A deal with TMS or any other listing provider (if any) is not good enough.
Says who?
> We need to make mythtv independent of any third party commercial source and
> I suggest the devs to come out of the dark and talk so we can coordinate a
> single effort, otherwise we are going to have a mess.
They (the devs) seem to have managed the entire MythTV project, thus far,
without need of your (or any user's) stewardship.
> Our current scenario:
> - Group A (the devs) is doing God knows what
I'm sure you'll know, in time, what they've been working on.
> - Groups B, C, D and F are negotiating a license with TMS to create a
> subscription based datadirect.
> - Groups H, I, J, etc are coming up with free solutions (bittorrent, nntp,
> cddb like, etc)
And these seem to universally focus on distribution methods, to solve the
(non-existant) "bandwidth issue". There is no short-term (and only a pie-
in-the-sky vague rendition of a long-term) solution or proposal on where
the actual data is coming from, whilst they toss about how to distribute it.
[See: "Cart, Putting thereof, before Horse, The"]
> What is going to happen:
> - Some groups comes out with a commercial solution
perhaps.
> - Others create a bittorrent based solution
which, again, addresses a distribution of information and ignores (in the
short-term, at least) the problem of having data to distribute.
> - The devs come out with their own thing and since they manage the code
> refuse to merge the other solutions.
> - Other groups fork the code
> - Welcome to mythhell
Sorry, you lost me at "we need to know".
- briand
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