Success stories with MythTV and Schedule Direct?

[Frank DiPrete]

On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 16:58 -0400, Ted Roche 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
> 

sd sign up and confirm:		worked
compile mythtv 0.20.2:		worked
update from 0.20-svn to 0.20.2:	worked

Add sd source to mythtv:  flawed
Only one option to remove old zap2it source: delete all.
deleted all, then had to re-add sd.

Retrieve sd channel list: extremely flawed
Channel names not retrieved / added.
99% of channels added as "adding Channel #"
have to manually edit the channel list.