[mythtv-users] Netflix coming to MythTV native - no more wine/windows?

jedi jedi at mishnet.org
Tue Sep 23 15:57:01 UTC 2014


On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 02:17:21AM -0400, Joseph Fry wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 7:30 PM, Joseph Fry <joe at thefrys.com> wrote:
> > ....
> > > Ahh... but is ... considered scraping?
> >
> > "Duck test".  We all know scrapping when we see it.
> > You want to scrape.

[deletia]

> 2. Their interface is not their content... they had an API for a reason,
> but many developers were too stupid to create a nice UI and users blamed
> NetFliix when device manufacturers completely botched their apps..

    This bit confuses me. Is Netflix really going to leave all of the 3rd
party device vendors out in the cold? That's likely to p*ss off far more 
people than would be impacted by whatever the mythtv developers are doing.

> 
> 3. I didn't say anything about MythTV users deleting their accounts, I was
> talking about 'we' netflix users.  I just said that forcing vendors to
> utilize the NetFlix web interface may really frustrate some users of
> devices with NetFlix support built in.   For example, assume that Samsung



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