[mythtv-users] mythtv-users Digest, Vol 105, Issue 20

[R KANNAN]

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> Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 11:23:57 -0800
> From: Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Grabbing TV listings
> To: Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
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> On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 09:38, R KANNAN <rk111810 at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
> > Does anyone use any other source for TV listings. I understand Windows
> Media
> > Cente uses some other source. Is that free of subscription charges?
>
> IANAL.  It is my understanding that the terms of use of the
> listing data for the Windows Media Center limits it usage to
> that specific platform since Microsoft is paying the fees
> for their licensed software (you pay for Media Center, and
> some of the money then goes to the listing service).
>
> Not surprisingly, good listing data costs money to maintain,
> and the companies that do so want to be compensated
> for their work.  One can argue that the business model
> is broken (TV stations provide their listing data to the
> listing companies, which (sometimes) validate it/correct it,
> and aggregate it with other station data, and then provide
> that to their customers), but it is what it is.  There is
> no (known to me) source of the types of complete(*) listing
> data in the US for which one is in both in compliance with
> the terms of service of that data and is free of charges.
> At (less than) 50 cents a week, I personally consider
> Schedules Direct a bargain for the data that they
> make available.
>
> Gary
>
> (*) Complete = (Mostly) correct data at least a week in
>    advance, with all the channels I receive.
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I will gladly pay the $25 per year for the service. I wanted to know what
experiences others had with schedulesdirect.org.

Thanks
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