MythTV changes.

[Jamon Camisso]

Colin McGregor wrote:
> --- Merv Curley <mervc-MwcKTmeKVNQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> On Friday 22 June 2007 10:34, Colin McGregor wrote:
>>>  Before Zap2it labs the MythTV
>>> people did "screen scraping" downloading web pages
>> and
>>> extracting the required data that way, and that
>> MAY be
>>> what the MythTV returns to after September 1st,
>> stay
>>> tuned.
>>>
>> I just extended my subscription yesterday and was
>> saddened to see the notice 
>> on their web site.
>>
>> My experience with TV listings over the past few
>> years has only involved 
>> Zap2It so it is good to know there may be an
>> alternative.
> 
> Well, folks outside North America have never had the
> likes of a Zap2It, yet people are happily using MythTV
> in the UK, Germany, etc.. So you don't have to have
> Zap2It for MythTV (though they did make life a LOT
> easier).
> 
>> They mention subscription services, is this partly
>> what you intend to cover 
>> Colin?   Of course Mythtv will still do its main
>> job, but a lot of the 
>> convenience of scheduling will be reduced.  
> 
> This is a developing story. The fact that Zap2It is
> dropping their service and the way that impacts on
> projects like MythTV is news, plus just which replaces
> Zap2It will be news (subscription for $? and/or the
> returns of xmltv to North America? and/or some other
> option?). Beyond that I'm not sure...
> 
> What I am sure of is that there will be some sort of
> solution between now and September 1st. After all we
> are talking about a bunch of geeks looking at an
> interesting, time limited, clearly defined problem,
> with multiple valid possible solutions. I have faith
> that the community will come up with at least one
> (possibly more than one) valid solution.

Maybe give TVGuide a reason to exist and stop wasting trees.

Jamon
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