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| Author: | RichardBronosky [ Tue Jun 26, 2007 2:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | No fee. I'll sooner scrape. |
I want to speak up and say I'm not willing to pay a fee. The data is readily available and in use. If http://pipes.yahoo.com/ could access the data in http://tv.yahoo.com/ this would be a non-issue. I think we should also be getting out weather information from Yahoo too, but that is another discussion. I work way too hard on my MythTV to pay anyone for it. My wife would argue that it does not provide anywhere near as valuable a service as the effort I put into it. |
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| Author: | forkd [ Wed Jun 27, 2007 12:16 am ] |
| Post subject: | cool |
looks cool to me..if it works. Unfortunately it's waaay out of my league to begin to figure it out. Just when I think I've got this mythtv thing figured out something like zap2it happens. I was using mythtv on Fedora, using the wilsonet guide, when we were using the "bad" way and the zap2it way really improved this. I do like what I see there and am quite interested in seeing what happens. |
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| Author: | ethernut [ Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: No fee. I'll sooner scrape. |
RichardBronosky wrote: I work way too hard on my MythTV to pay anyone for it.
...Unfortunately, the compaines that have paid big bucks to have the data, dont really care how hard you work on your mythtv, nor do they feel like they owe you anything at all for all of your hard work... I'd rather pay a few bucks a month to save hours of my life a month.. but that's just me. Best of luck scraping! |
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| Author: | RichardBronosky [ Wed Jun 27, 2007 7:16 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: No fee. I'll sooner scrape. |
ethernut wrote: ...Unfortunately, the compaines that have paid big bucks to have the data, dont really care how hard you work on your mythtv, nor do they feel like they owe you anything at all for all of your hard work...
2 things: 1. It's really weird that this became it's own thread. I replied to this but I added my own subject. Oops! 2. I forgot to state that I refuse to pay because "me knowing what comes on at what time only benefits the people who make the media for my consumption." Advertisers are paying the makers of the media to attract my eyeballs. Why should I pay them also for the privilege of know when a show comes on. When there is nothing on TV that I am dieing to see, I read programming books. Right now I'm reading: Learning Python Programming Python High Performance MySQL Learning Perl (refresher because I haven't used it since college) Pro Django: Web Development Done Right Ruby In A Nutshell Linux Multimedia Hacks Practical MythTV (The first ever signed* by Stewart Smith copy!) I do MythTV instead of a TiVo because my career is built on the knowledge I have gained by getting my hands (and drives) dirty and doing things myself. I'm not going to pay someone to distract me from that. I'll just focus more of my attention on developing for f-spot. Oh, that reminds me I need to look for a book on Mono/C# * I was drinking a beer with Stewart in the hotel bar at the MySQL Conf '07 and I thought, "Man! I wish this conference were a few weeks later. Your book hasn't shipped yet. I could get it signed." Then I realized I had Sharpie in my bag and a UPS shipping label. So Stewart graciously signed it, "Congrats on the ___FIRST___ signed copy!" |
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| Author: | Girkers [ Wed Jun 27, 2007 7:56 pm ] |
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I hear your pain Richard. I use to work for a computer company that supported graphic artists and the like and one of our clients was a local newspaper. They published the TV guide weekly and do you want to know how they got they data? A text file emailed to them. Now why can't anyone else get this information, why do they hold on so tight to this that they don't want to give it away. I don't buy the paper and I don't have time to scower the net looking to find when my TV program is on. I feel this is another one of the reason for the popularity of the downloading TV shows. Watch it when it is convenient to me. Just some food for thought. |
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