MythTV takes a HUGE hit.

[Ted Roche]

Thomas Charron wrote:
> http://labs.zap2it.com/ztvws/ztvws_login/1,1059,TMS01-1,00.html
> 
> "For several years we have offered a free TV listings service to
> hobbyists for their own personal, noncommercial use. In October of
> 2004 we posted here an open letter saying the future of Zap2it Labs
> was at risk because of certain growing misuses of the Zap2it Labs
> data. Unfortunately this misuse has continued and grown. These
> misuses, combined with other business factors have led to the decision
> to discontinue Zap2it Labs effective September 1, 2007. "

Nice that they gave 70+ days notice so that people can come up with
work-arounds. We can look at screen-scraping sites with the schedules,
look for alternative sources, work up some new hacks.

Maybe this will be the motivation to get www.xmltv.org rolling again.

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Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com