Success stories with MythTV and Schedule Direct?

Jeff Creem jeffcreem at gmail.com
Thu Sep 13 21:57:16 EDT 2007


Frank DiPrete wrote:
> 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
>>
>>     
>
> Anybody else using SD with comcast ? (nashua)
>
> After fixing the channel name prob, The feed for 7 channels returns no
> program data. notable channels are 62 scifi, 63 animal, and 54 food.
>
>
>   
I am using SD with comcast in Nashua. I had no channel name problems as 
a result of the switch and I have program data for 62. 63 and 54.



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