Success stories with MythTV and Schedule Direct?

[Thomas Charron]

  Worked fine for Mythbuntu.  did an apt-get upgrade and got the
latest Myth, and it knew all about the new scheduled.  Just provided
my user information.

On 9/3/07, Ted Roche <tedroche at tedroche.com> wrote:
> Just checking in to find out if anyone has switched their MythTV setups
> over to Schedules Direct [1]? ("Schedules Direct is a non-profit
> organization that provides raw U.S./Canadian tv listing data to Free and
> Open Source Applications. Those applications then use the data to
> provide things like PVR functionality, search tools, and private channel
> grids.")
>
> For those not following along, a subsidiary of the Tribune Media cartel
> (Zap2It Labs) had been providing the data gratis to the community using
> their own server resources; something's changed and they've decided not
> to do that. Schedules Direct was formed as a non-profit and has
> scrambled to license the data and pass it on to the many PVR
> communities. Interestingly, they approached a number of companies which
> had accumulated the data, but were not able to work out a payment with
> anyone other than the Tribune folks.
>
> [1] http://www.schedulesdirect.org
>
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-- Thomas