[mythtvnz] Gaps in EPG data for Saturday night for clock change

[Steven Ellis]

James Gray wrote:
> Would anybody be interesting in paying a small monthly fee for a
> quality, reliable XMLTV EPG? I have heard licensing may be expensive
> (Personally, I don't believe a program guide can be copyrighted, but
> if TV3/TVNZ do, I'd rather not end up in court), but if I could find
> enough subscribers I may be able to offset that.
>
I've had these conversations, and the numbers are in the thousands of
dollars per channel. Plus Sky won't provide their data to anyone,
especially for use in a PVR environment.

I'd love to set something up, but the ideal price is in the TV Guide
sort of range - under NZ$2 a week per customer.  Based on the charges we
could easily be looking at considerably more to offer this sort of service.

Once FreeView goes live it should all be moot anyway as they will have
EIT data.

Steve

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