Zap2it

[Corry]

Wait, so Zap2it discontinues free service, and everyone on here said the only good source was them, and the subscription was cheap, so I joined up, only to now have everyone here abandon it? Is this what I am to understand? I never got an e-mail from them saying my subscription no longer allowed downloading of epg from them, and I just checked my account, everything looks good, so it does not appear to me that they have totally discontinued service...If it was totally abandoned because you had to pay $16 or something like that, definatly below $20, for a year, not a month, a year, I gotta say, thats a new low in cheap. I pay $12/MONTH for my tivo...

[Feral]

http://zap2xml.110mb.com/ is a grabber for zap2it that works for free. you don't get as detailed information as you do with the pay service but hey its free.

[patrick]

Originally Posted by Corry

Wait, so Zap2it discontinues free service, and everyone on here said the only good source was them, and the subscription was cheap, so I joined up, only to now have everyone here abandon it? Is this what I am to understand? I never got an e-mail from them saying my subscription no longer allowed downloading of epg from them, and I just checked my account, everything looks good, so it does not appear to me that they have totally discontinued service...If it was totally abandoned because you had to pay $16 or something like that, definatly below $20, for a year, not a month, a year, I gotta say, thats a new low in cheap. I pay $12/MONTH for my tivo...

Hi,

Not sure but do you mean SchedulesDirect? If so, it is still around.
You need help with something?

FWIW, zap2it labs did discontinue service.
Schedules Direct was formed as a replacement for it, as was CT TV Listings.


HTH,
patrick

[Corry]

[quote=patrick;227076
Hi,

Not sure but do you mean SchedulesDirect? If so, it is still around.
You need help with something?

FWIW, zap2it labs did discontinue service.
Schedules Direct was formed as a replacement for it, as was CT TV Listings.


HTH,
patrick[/QUOTE]

Ah yes, searched my gmail for that and found another login and password, with yet more EPG type stuff. I was seriously afraid people had shyed away from a service that was that cheap! I was highly disturbed that the forum was just shut with a message like "Didn't they stop?" reply, not like, "They stopped all EPG support, schedules direct picked up where Zap2it left off, but its a paid service." Further, I believe in there was links to other free EPG services, but heck, I had paid, I want my paid service! So you can see, to me it appeared as though some service that went to a paid service had been abandoned for some free alternatives.... I son't suppose it would be too much to ask to get a schedules direct link on the zap2it documentation here? (and in the Zap2It forums) Memory is still fuzzy, but coming back, IIRC it used the same format as Zap2It and pretty much the exact same plugin, with only minor changes, and thus could be seen as an evololution of it....and would help jog memories like mine....I was up till 4:00am last night fighting with my media portal machine with case sensitivity in MySql, waiting for the digital tuner to scan, etc, the last piece I needed was EPG, then I'd have scheduled my first HD program to watch on my new HDTV. Instead, nothing, 4 hours of sleep last night for nothing Worse, I won't work on it tonight since I'm about to go try to catch up on some of this lost sleep.....I suppose there's always next monday

Thanks for restoring my faith here...that is, as long as the schedules direct plugin is still being maintained

[patrick]

Originally Posted by Corry

as long as the schedules direct plugin is still being maintained

Ok, if you need any help check my sig for links to the support threads

HTH,
patrick