Confidence growing in a MythTV EPG solution
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Since the announcement by Zap2It Labs to discontinue their service by September 1st, there has been very little information from the MythTV developers - other than that they were working on something.
But today a little more info came from Robert Eden. He is the maintainer of the XMLTV project. Robert offered his help on June 20th.
Here are the comments Robert made today on the mythtv-users mailinglist:
“We (MythTV, XMLTV and other devs) are not ready for an official announcement yet, but very getting close. I would say chances are very good (85%+) we’ll have a solution in place before a Z2L shutdown. Sorry I can’t give any details yet….”
“There are a number of folks working on other solutions (scrapers, etc). The problems with those solutions are questionably legality and possibility that the data sources would change things w/o notice.”
“My 85% number is for the free or pay scalable solution being worked on by the MythTV (and other) devs. Other numbers I’ve made up are 50%, then 75%… it keeps getting better.”
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see http://easytvdata.org/