[mythtv-users] possible p2p approach for mythtv information?

Aaron Harwood aharwood at aerosoul.com.au
Tue Jul 4 02:37:43 UTC 2006


On 04/07/2006, at 9:12 AM, Brad Templeton wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 09:38:18PM +0200, tom roth wrote:
>> On 03/07/06, Brad Templeton <brad+myth at templetons.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Well, tvwish (my program) already has a feature to let you import
>>> recommendation
>>> lists from a web URL. Build a tool to aggregate recommendations into
>>> a file on the web and you have it.
>>>
>>
>> tvwish, sounds  really interesting and i will definatly check it  
>> out. Thanks
>> for pointing it out.
>> what i would like to see (in addition) though is:
>> - everybody is a (potential) critic based on her recording behaviour.
>> - recommendations get scored based on my viewing pattern,
>> - the channel a movie is shown at to me often is an indicator  
>> whether this
>> is a movie i would want to watch. Therefore i would also like to  
>> score the
>> channel. This information of course only can be provided when the  
>> critic is
>> actually based on programmguide information.
>> - i envision a system where a user does not need to do anything  
>> and still
>> finds interesting films on his harddrive.
>
> Just seeing what people record is boring to me.   That's not going  
> to tell
> you much different from ratings, unless you do some fancy  
> collaborative
> filtering.
>
> I'm far more interested in people actually rating if a show is good  
> or bad,
> so that, for example, by the time people have watched shows on the  
> east
> coast, people on the west coast know how good the shows were (not  
> how well
> they were marketed, which is what recording tells you.)
>
> For movies, it's far easier to just draw from sources that list good
> movies than to see what people are recording now.
>
> If the above is unfair to people on the east coast, the alternative is
> a system that tries to record as much as it can, but deletes all but
> the best after the reviews come in.

So MythRatings may be the module that we are looking for.
--a



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