[geeks] OTA tuner with ethernet?

[nate at portents.com]

> Is there a source of free OTA schedules available online, either xml
> or plaintext (even better)?

MythTV originally had scrapers which would pull down the schedule data
from places like the zap2it website, zap2it then had to deal with a lot of
excess data being pulled down by all the people scraping, so they set up
zap2itlabs which ran for a while providing free schedule data in xml
format, until that got too much for zap2it (companies started building
computers with mythtv bundled on it which while it perhaps didn't violate
the letter of the license agreement between zap2itlabs and end-users did
violate the spirit of it in the sense that companies were making money off
of building mythtv boxes and zap2it saw none of the profits and was only
saddled with additional data transfer costs).  Zap2it closed down the free
service earlier this year with very little warning (not even an email to
all the folks who had been using it), so various MythTV folks got together
and put this service together:

http://www.schedulesdirect.org/

Not free, but relatively cheap.

- Nate