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<blockquote data-quote="m0deth" data-source="post: 162747" data-attributes="member: 28342">Its not MP's fault....it's the business climate in the US....if a real company like say TitanTV for example would actually bring what users who are registered ask for....like a parsable database feed or even construct a plugin for MP for registered users which would allow access....this wouldn't be a problem. Zap2It could have done the same thing for us....or TVGuide.....I can go on all day. Bottom line is, they can't find a way to overcharge for it, get enough people to sign on, or force some sort of proprietary ad down our throats, it won't happen. I'd actually even deal with targeted banner ads for entertainment if the guide provided were accurate and served all media options for a given area. Throw a TVSeries sized banner at the top of the guide which is usually dead space to pay for bandwidth/server/upkeep costs.I'm sure some moronic entertainment lawyer won't like that for some f'ing reason or another....have you ever gotten the feeling that entertainment would get better in the states if all the lawyers dropped dead at once? Then again, court tv, a&amp;e, and others would be lost for programming then....ahh yes...the money again.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="m0deth, post: 162747, member: 28342"] Its not MP's fault....it's the business climate in the US....if a real company like say TitanTV for example would actually bring what users who are registered ask for....like a parsable database feed or even construct a plugin for MP for registered users which would allow access....this wouldn't be a problem. Zap2It could have done the same thing for us....or TVGuide.....I can go on all day. Bottom line is, they can't find a way to overcharge for it, get enough people to sign on, or force some sort of proprietary ad down our throats, it won't happen. I'd actually even deal with targeted banner ads for entertainment if the guide provided were accurate and served all media options for a given area. Throw a TVSeries sized banner at the top of the guide which is usually dead space to pay for bandwidth/server/upkeep costs. I'm sure some moronic entertainment lawyer won't like that for some f'ing reason or another....have you ever gotten the feeling that entertainment would get better in the states if all the lawyers dropped dead at once? Then again, court tv, a&e, and others would be lost for programming then....ahh yes...the money again. [/QUOTE]

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