I think it's possible that MythTV, my digital video recorder of choice, may be coming to a screeching end very soon. Yesterday Zap2It Labs, the group that was providing all of us MythTV users with program guide data, announced they were going to stop the service in September of this year. It'd been free up to this point (you were asked to take a survey every three months or so), but apparently some groups were somehow using the data to generate income, which was against the agreement.
Anyhow, the likelihood that they would accept cash from end-users is slim, and the alternative--"web scraping" sites to come up with listings--is a poor one.
No word yet from the lead developer of MythTV, Isaac Richards, but in mailing list postings he comes off as such a big PITA that it wouldn't surprise me if he said he was taking his ball and going home and stopping development of MythTV.
If so, hello SageTV...
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