MythTV Links Up with Program Guide Provider

Neil Campbell writes "As a long-time MythTV user, I found this announcement to be quite a surprise. A company by the name of TechnoVera has partnered with the founders of MythTV on an interesting project: A pay service for electronic program guide information rivaling that of Microsoft's Media Center. No more Zap2It surveys to continue using their free albeit basic service. The most important part of this is the fact that revenues from the service will be used to fund Open Source development; most notably MythTV. Registered Users will even have the opportunity to vote on feature enhancements that they would like to be incorporated into MythTV. I'm sure there will be some initial trepidation from the Linux community, but overall I think this should be considered progress. More attention and money for MythTV will result in a better product."

Comments

Re:No problem with service but $5 a month is too h

[Anonymous Coward]

I think his point was that you actually get music from Yahoo. All you get from the TV listing service is.. Well, I'll let you figure it out. I don't want to spoil the surprise.

Re:US only I am afraid

[joschm0]

Hmmm, except for the cricket, you have the same crap on TV as here in the US.

Re:US only I am afraid

[Black Perl]

Did you really read the FAQ?

Of course not. This is slashdot. You can assume I haven't even read the article. You'd be pushing your luck if you think I even read the summary. In fact, you shouldn't even assume I have completely read and understood the title, which of course is "MythTV links up with p0rn provider" isn't it?

Wow all the cost of Tivo and a pain in the ass too

[elrous0]

Finally, a product that offers me both the monthly fee of Tivo and the general pain in the ass of setting up MythTV. How could it fail?

-Eric

Re:US only I am afraid

[revery]

I knocked up some crappy Java client a while back.

I hope you had the decency to not bill her for those five minutes...

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It' called incest Arlene, and it's against the law.

Re:No excuse at all.

[Blakey Rat]

I look at it this way: If the original developer had DONE IT RIGHT in the first place, nobody would have to go through and re-write it now. If there's a configuration file that tells which keys are mapped to which functions (going by previous posts on this thread), then why isn't it used consistantly by EVERY screen?

It's great that OSS lets people fix things like this, but it should also let people slap bad programmers in the face. "You put in this menu and didn't use the right key binding, slap! No cookie."