[mythtvnz] Extracting EPG from sky

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 18:56:19 +1300
Corrin Lakeland <lakeland@go.org.nz> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Short of buying a DVB card and splitting my digital signal, is there  
> any way to get the EPG data out of my sky box?  I currently have it  
> plugged into my PVR500.  What about Sky UHF?  I know I can download  
> the data from the net, I'm looking for something that a C/D letter  
> cannot terminate.
> 
> PS: The local free newspaper contains TV listings, so it can't be  
> that expensive.  Would people be interested in contacting sky and  
> asking to purchase a legal EPG feed which we could then distribute  
> amongst subscribers/  Probably via bittorrent?
> 
> Corrin

bittorrent - a waste of time for this amount of data. the mechanics of
downloading the .torrent file every day, then firing up a bittorrent
client to get a 1/2 M data (compressed) is too much bother compared to
good old wget or curl.

I don't think Sky will be giving this away for any affordable price.
Use the existing internet sources is my advice.