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A New Replacement for TV Tome
Randall311 writes to tell us about, what the creators hope will be, a new replacement for the old TV Tome website, the TV IV Wiki. The once popular TV Tome website was absorbed by CNET in April of this year and most of the content was added to their TV.com website. Many users dislike the new format with vast amounts of flash, obnoxious ads, and missing content. So, if you liked the old TV Tome website perhaps this will allow the community to rebuild what it has lost.
Probably not, as I'd be willing to bet that when you submitted that information you signed your copyright over to TVTome, agreed by you in the Terms & Conditions of the site. Sorry...
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The TV IV stems from a forum on Something Awful so with all that goon power behind it I'm sure it will snowball shortly in to a quite concise database.
The cookery forum offshoot, GBS Food is doing wonderfully since it's conception!
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The Terms and Conditions states that you grant CNET Networks a licence to use your information any way they see fit, but the licence is nonexclusive. Therefore, the users who contributed the information at TVTome (or TV.com) could add that information to the TVIV Wiki too. However, proving who was the copyright holder of a paragraph, which was originally written by one person, then modified by, say three others, would probably make this too complicated to work on a large scale.
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if you like 30 versions of Briteny Speers "oops i did it agian", then FreeDB is viable option. Aside from the quality of the information, though, the information they do have is inadequate (ie, year, genre, etc. is only stored for the CD as a whole, not individual tracks, which may not be the same.)
If your just looking for episode listings and the episode names, http://www.epguides.com/ is pretty good. No flash ads or anything. It also links straight to the TV.com page when you click on the episode link. So that option is still available.
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Doctor Who did take a 16-year break though.
There is a forum called "The TV IV" on the Something Awful forums. (It's "IV" as in "intravenous", i.e. getting our TV "fix".) This is where the idea to create this was born. We initially were thinking of a site to store info on the shows we like, but then we decided that if we invited others, we might be able to build something really good.
If I want to know about Desperate Housewives, I'll go to Get Desperate. For Lost, I visit Lost Media; for Family Guy, the Family Guy Files, and for CSI, CSI Files. I even still visit Crashdown, a Roswell fan site, even though that show was cancelled YEARS ago. Most of these sites are updated several times a day -- TV.com can never compete against that.
What I would really like would be an index to the best show-specific fan sites on the internet, for every single show that's out there. TV.com should just switch to that!