[mythtv-users] Zap2it Labs Shutting Down?

[Michael Jones]

If anyone's interested, or even cares..

I have contacted the labs at zap2it.com to request pricing and and  
licensing information..

- Michael

On Jun 20, 2007, at 10:43 AM, Cole Brodine wrote:

> No offense, but at this point in time, discussing price points for  
> an imaginary TV listing service is probably pretty pointless.  I  
> think we would be better off trying to develop some sort of  
> business model to decide if it is even feasible at what people  
> would consider a "reasonable" or "modest" price.
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> On 6/20/07, ryan patterson <ryan.goat at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 6/20/07, David Schmidt < david.schmidt.in.dallas at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/20/07, Cole Brodine < cbrodine at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm not sure what their commercial license says you are allowed  
> to do with
> > the data.  Hopefully you can redistribute as you please and then  
> the $5 year
> > thing would be completely feasible.  I think you would have to  
> remember that
> > the servers and bandwidth to redistribute would have to be  
> maintained and
> > paid for also.  You might have to pay at least one person's  
> salary yearly as
> > well.  So you are probably looking at something much higher then  
> $5 a year.
>
> $5/year is nothing.  I was thinking something in the $5/quarter to
> $5/month range.
>
> $60/year for a few hundred kilobytes of text files?  That would be  
> way over priced.  Yes TMS puts effort into collecting and  
> cataloging the data.  But they already give it away for free  
> ( http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/).  I may be missing something but  
> that site doesn't even have a banner add.  I think $12/year would  
> be reasonable.
>
> >
> > Hopefully Isaac or whomever they talked to can work something  
> out.  I'll
> > wait in the shadows to see what the developer's solution is.
> >
>
> And hopefully something we can get online before the (literal) drop
> dead date of 9/1!!
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