MythTV and Zap2It Labs to offer TV Listings

Fear-not fearless open sources PVR’ers, the people over at MythTV are real close to striking a deal (albeit a pay one) to have listing services continued.

Zap2It labs, which has provided free TV listings in Canada and the US announced last month that they were discontinuing their free service. Shortly thereafter a group of Mythtv and XMLTV developers joined forces to explore alternate avenues.

The answer, http://scheduledirect.org. They are offering the same level of service as was offered by Zap2It labs for $15 / 3 months. They aren’t quite ready to offer the service yet but they are assured that the service will be ready to go before the September 1 deadline that was set by Zap2It labs last month.

They have an announcement list setup to let everyone know as soon as they are good to go.

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