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Yeah, that's a really good idea.

Digiguide does that. It's windows only, but runs under Wine ok. You have to pay for the TV listings data, but it's cheap.

>Whether or not her parents can afford to pay for whatever it takes to make her well again should not factor into the equation.

True. But shouldn't money factor into the equation if it's patching up a stuntman?

There's extremes on both sides. I know I spend more time shouting at Real TV about how those idiots filmed are wasthing my money (and being angry the idiots don't die from their stupid acts -- If anything supports the bible position against darwinism, it's Real TV) than I do seeing it being spent wisely.

Socialist healthcare has no business paying to fix self-inflicted injuries. At some point personal responsibility overtakes social responsibility.

1. foobar 2000 for music playback without Winamp's awful tiny unintuitive UI and with plenty of features to keep any audio-lover happy.
2. Media Player Classic - A great, lightweight but featureful WMP6-alike.
3. For more advanced users, PenguiNet - a lovely Windows SSH/telnet client. Not as lightweight or free as PuTTY, but more intuitive, and has my name on it :)
4. Something addictive.
5. Opera and/or Firebird.. must wean all those users off IE.
6. DScaler - I'm yet to find a better TV Card app. Lightweight, stable, and Free.
7. DigiGuide - Excellent TV guide, in the UK at least.
8. WinRar - as vital for Windows as gzip is for *ix.
9. Nero - Must-have CD-RW software.
10. Ad-Aware and friends.

Because you don't have a decent TV Guide.

Try DigiGuide instead of the junk you currently use.

Try DigiGuide as it does that and much more.

Now I had been thinking for a while that an open/distributed tv listings service for Ireland would be great, but that I might find little help in putting it together!
While not free, there is Digiguide which has a fairly comprehensive set of TV listings for £6.99/a year (about $10). I don't think that thy publish the protocol used, but I'm fairly sure it's been reverse-engineered, (there was an unofficial palm client floating around a whle back) and I' sure they're not going to complain, as long as you deliver a valid (i.e. paid for) registration key. More clients = more money for them.

...of why advertising stinks try this: http://forums.digiguide.com/topic.asp?id=9719.

It's a write up explaining why ad sponsorship is bad and why the web site is switching to subscription. Shame everyone can't be just as honest about the whole thing.

It looks like the truth is out about the emperors new clothes!

So tivo costs a little and has ongoing costs, and there's the danger of the company folding...but man is this an ugly solution. I wouldn't want that plugged into my home entertainment system.

BTW - DigiGuide Can drive a PVR on your PC so you can get listings for as little as $12 per year. Get your PVR software sorted (Snapstream or showshifter) and you are sorted. DigiGuide supports well over 5,000 channels including USA, UK and Ireland channels.

And for the linux freaks (you know who you are and I'm confident you're reading this) DigiGuide now apparently works a treat under wine.

Unless I've gone all windows CE in my old age, isn't Digiguide, or rather its application, exactly what you need?

DigiGuide can drive just about any software that supports either commandline or a programming interface.

You can even write your own DigiGuide Addins to fire whenever a programme starts/stops or when a DigiGuide alert is fired.

DigiGuide 6.0 (beta) also now supports just under 5,000 USA channels.

DigiGuide can drive just about any software that supports either commandline or a programming interface.

You can even write your own DigiGuide Addins to fire whenever a programme starts/stops or when a DigiGuide alert is fired.

DigiGuide 6.0 (beta) also now supports just under 5,000 USA channels.

The hardware setup of a PVR is pretty easy to figure out - many posts here show the gubbins you'll need to put a nicely specced box together.
The software is a different matter.

For me, OS wise, I'd stick onWin98Lite Win2k version or the XP version when it comes out.

But channel wise, it's not as straightforward. To UK users I'd suggest using the amazingly excellent Digiguide which is an online TV Guide with a staggering amount of personal tweaks and doohickeys and has plug ins that allow it to connect directly to the also excellent Snapstream.
Digiguide is £4.99 a year - worth it even if you don't build a PVR and Snapstream is $49.99 (about £34) from their website.

Anyone interested in this kind of stuff but who shudders at the cost of £400 (cost in the UK) Plus £10 Per months of £600 up front there are alternatives. I haver personaly found that digiguide is good and with a subscription price of £4.99 a year! Its only a tv guide but their website has links to some third party software to allow you to use your PC tvcard to record your sorted. you need a PC with a decent amount of disk, tvcard (£60), digiguide(£4.99 per year) and the recording software (around $35 i think it was) all comming in significantly cheaper than the tivo, plus you can throw an extra hard drive at it if you find you need the space, or even burn your favourite tv series to CDrom or something :-} PS. if you have a tv card already you can always try out digiguide and the recording software, on shareware trial for 30days