A free source for UK listings (was: Re: [mythtv-users] UK Listings - No Joy From Digiguide)

[Richie Jarvis]

Urm - guys - aren't we jumping the gun somewhat??

Ed Avis is working on a solution - I think, considering that we have all 
been benefiting from his XMLTV software, that we should include him in 
our discussions - in fact, there is a mailing list for XMLTV - 
http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=39046 - I personally think that 
the this discussion should probably be held in conjunction with the 
xmltv folks.

Anyway - buying the data sounds lovely.  They obviously don't care too 
much about IP - otherwise they wouldn't be allowing ftp access!!!

I have also posted a note to the bbc about getting data from them - no 
reply as yet.

Cheers,

Richie

Sam Woodward wrote:

>I have a registered Limited Company set up. The company is 
>currently not actively trading, but I have kept the legal shell in 
>place. If BroadcastingData are only interested in dealing with a 
>registered company, rather than individuals, then I would be 
>interested in discussing ideas with fellow mythusers before 
>approaching them with a business plan.
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>If there is enough interest then I suggest a meeting of UK 
>MythUsers (perhaps in London) to work out the resources that we 
>need in terms of hardware/finance and to agree the best way 
>forward.
>
>Sam W.
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>P.S. (My background: I now design/code embedded systems for a 
>smart-home technology company in Hertfordshire, but used to be 
>in entertainment. Search for "Sam Woodward" on IMBD. And if you 
>recogise the surname from this list- I am Paul Woodward's brother.)
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>>>They also have a free ftp site with 7-day listings on it for BBC,
>>>ITV and five (not Channel 4, as far as I can see) in a sort of
>>>free-form text format that would need some clever parsing.
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>>Indeed. I was thinking about this myself. I think it would be a
>>trivial for BroadcastingData to provide the data CSV (comma separated
>>value) or some such. I have a hunch that BroadcastingData don't want
>>to deal with the end-user, but rather want to deal with a company.
>>They are London based, so if we can get this together we might be able
>>to arrange a meeting with them.
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>>Here is my idea for that company:
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>>The company which has a web-site where you can buy a quota of 
>>downloads (something like GBP ?? for 365 downloads). The account could
>>be set to renew automatically when the downloads run out (or not). The
>>idea of the quota is so that if you share your account username and
>>password with somebody else then you simply use up your credit sooner.
>>
>>The company could provide the TV listing in XMLTV formats (keeping up
>>to date with the latest XMLTV format as an option) by translating from
>>the BroadcastingData format. 
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>>Terms and Conditions could be that listings may not be redistributed
>>and are for personal use only.
>>
>>Could have different pricing schemes depending on how far you want to
>>look into the future?
>>
>>I think that there is definitely some demand for a sevice like this,
>>but the real question is if there is enough demand to make the idea
>>fly.
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