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<blockquote data-quote="mm1352000" data-source="post: 1104879" data-attributes="member: 82144">Mmmm, well let's see...From what I read previously on the SD forum there are three reasons that the changeover might/would require intervention by devs and/or users:<ol>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">The replacement service only supports USA and Canada.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">The replacement service channel IDs might not exactly match the original DD service channel IDs (ie. remap required... maybe).</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">SD might not be able to get GraceNote/TMS to redirect traffic to the replacement service (ie. etc/hosts or rebuild with updated URL required... maybe).</li>
</ol>Reading the latest news on the SD home page it seems the replacement service is already live, and GraceNote/TMS are redirecting some traffic to it. The corresponding forum thread suggests the replacement service should be a very good drop in:<a href="http://forums.schedulesdirect.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&amp;t=2599" target="_blank">http://forums.schedulesdirect.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&amp;t=2599</a>The known issue list is encouragingly short.In other words, I'm not so sure anything needs to be done immediately.It would be good to avoid relying on a redirect which might be removed at any time, and that's any easy fix so may as well do it.The people outside the USA and Canada will need to find an alternative data source, but I don't think there is much we can do about this.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mm1352000, post: 1104879, member: 82144"] Mmmm, well let's see... From what I read previously on the SD forum there are three reasons that the changeover might/would require intervention by devs and/or users: [LIST=1] [*]The replacement service only supports USA and Canada. [*]The replacement service channel IDs might not exactly match the original DD service channel IDs (ie. remap required... maybe). [*]SD might not be able to get GraceNote/TMS to redirect traffic to the replacement service (ie. etc/hosts or rebuild with updated URL required... maybe). [/LIST] Reading the latest news on the SD home page it seems the replacement service is already live, and GraceNote/TMS are redirecting some traffic to it. The corresponding forum thread suggests the replacement service should be a very good drop in: [url]http://forums.schedulesdirect.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2599[/url] The known issue list is encouragingly short. In other words, I'm not so sure anything [I]needs[/I] to be done immediately. It would be good to avoid relying on a redirect which might be removed at any time, and that's any easy fix so may as well do it. The people outside the USA and Canada will need to find an alternative data source, but I don't think there is much we can do about this. [/QUOTE]

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