[mythtvnz] Return to NZ

[Steven Ellis]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 9:27 pm, Steve Hodge wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Hadley Rich <hads at nice.net.nz> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 21 May 2008 20:12:29 NZ Russ wrote:
>>
>> > I'd be interested in any ideas and am willing to make some calls if we
>> can
>> > collectively come up with a robust approach that benefits everyone.
>> Perhaps
>> > Advertising in the EPG Stream? Paying for a XML feed from "TV guide"?
>>  I
>> > have some good friends in marketing companies that have regular
>> contact
>> > with these companies.
>>
>> As far as I can tell the networks aren't interested in having anything
>> to
>> do
>> with it. Unfortunately.
>>
>> Until DVRs are common here that's not likely to change. EPG's just
>> aren't
> important enough until you have DVR functionality. Sky is likely to slowly
> improve due to MySky, but it's going to be a slow process I expect.

Also some of the additional data for MySky is in a private data stream we
can't currently parse.



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