On 8/9/07, steve childress <stevech@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Schedules Direct is going in the wrong direction and if I have to pay
> for the service I might as well buy TV Guide and have a hard copy at home.
you're not paying for listings, you're paying for access to specially
formatted listings. tv guide in print won't plug in to your PVRs. from
what it looks like, zap2it was the only service that offered
structured/reusable feed formats for US TV channels.
there's plenty of normal methods to get tv listings - free or cheap.
but getting them in a structured format that doesn't require a lot of
crappy web scraping won't happen. XMLTV/SD seems to be the only method
for that (i haven't heard of any and i've searched quite a lot)
it is worth $20/year to me, even just for the little bit of data i'll
wind up using from it.
- mike
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