[geeks] OTA tuner with ethernet?

[Francois Dion]

On Dec 20, 2007 4:25 PM,  <nate at portents.com> wrote:
> > 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.

Thanks for the info. I knew about zap2it from mythtv and that it was
no longer available. I'll check schedulesdirect.

BTW, I found another box:
http://www.novra.com/a75.htm

It says "once configured, support any operating system". Not sure what
they mean by that or how you can tune / schedule etc...