Due to concerns over trademark infringement, the group heading the effort to implement a replacement for Zap2It Labs, has changed name to “Schedules Direct“. They already registered the domain and are redirecting from the old one.
Also, a lot of people have volunteered to help, so they now have some candidates to pick between for the [...]
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Easy now - the solution is not ready yet, but it has been announced that Easy TV Data has been formed and that they are
“actively working on a solution that will provide what we hope will be a smooth transition away from Zap2it Labs by the September 1 deadline”.
The members of the board are:
Isaac [...]
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Easy now - the solution is not ready yet, but it has been announced that Easy TV Data has been formed and that they are
“actively working on a solution that will provide what we hope will be a smooth transition away from Zap2it Labs by the September 1 deadline”.
The members of the board are:
Isaac [...]
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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 [...]
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Michael Still, author of “Practical MythTV” is providing a nice analysis of the likely outcome of the pending Zap2It Labs shutdown. His basic message is: “Don’t panic!”
I agree with him, and of the four options he lists, I believe the XMLTV screen scraper to be the most likely outcome.
In another post on his blog he [...]
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Tribune Media Services has announced that they will no longer provide free EPG data through Zap2it Labs after September 1st.
Here is part of the announcement:
“For several years we have offered a free TV listings service to hobbyists for their own personal, noncommercial use. In October of 2004 we posted here an open letter saying the [...]
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