[mythtv-users] Anyone else getting MythTV News - late

Brad Fuller bradallenfuller at gmail.com
Thu Aug 28 14:36:38 UTC 2008


This is the 2nd MythTV Newsletter that I received, but it's one year late.


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From: MythTV News <fmarier at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:16 PM
Subject: MythTV News
To: bradallenfuller at gmail.com


MythTV News

Schedules Direct now open for membership.

Posted: 27 Aug 2008 11:06 AM CDT

Hey all, just wanted to make sure everyone saw that Schedules Direct
is now out of beta testing and fully open for anyone who wants to sign
up.
With the release of 0.20.2 the other day, switching your Myth config
over from using Zap2It labs for data is fairly easy. Please see this
mailing list posting from Bruce for a short set of instructions - but
it mainly just boils down to running mythtv-setup, changing the
existing listings grabber to Schedules Direct, and putting in your new
username + password (assuming you kept the same lineup config as on
the old Labs website). Took me well under 10 minutes.
I know, it's a bit hard to start paying for guide data. It was free
for so long! I'm not sure how many of you were around during the bad
old days of having to screen scrape to get listings data, but it was
decidedly not fun. Constantly upgrading XMLTV to deal with website
changes, etc. So, really, I don't think paying a little bit for a
stable source of good, complete data is unreasonable. This was the
best alternative we developers could come up with, given the lack of
options available to us, but I realize that not everyone will agree.
If you're on the fence about signing up due to feeling that the price
is currently too high and you'd rather just wait, I'd like to ask you
to please reconsider. SD is a non-profit org run by open source/free
software developers for the benefit of the users - not out to make
money on this stuff - and the monthly/yearly price of membership will
be lowered to meet costs. But, how much the price goes down initially
will really depend on how many users sign up during these first
months.
And finally, I'd like to thank everyone who has already become a
member of SD - your support of this project is great. =) And if you
haven't, please consider becoming a member of Schedules Direct.
Thanks.
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