IceTV was started as there was no EPG in Australia. The main man behind IceTV is Peter Vogel (one of the inventors of the Fairlight CMI). But no we are definitely our own company. :)
I think for MS the biggest stopping point would be going to all the effort (and cost) of setting up an EPG service from scratch just as a value added service for MCE (sure it's pretty damn important but not really critical for MCE). Daniel -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Collins Sent: Tuesday, 25 October 2005 4:54 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] EPG in Australia? Kind of curious myself about how you are able to create from scratch and not Microsoft? I always assumed you had setup a sweet heart licensing deal with the networks (or you were a partially owned consortium like Fly Buys). Dean > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Andreassen > Sent: Tuesday, 25 October 2005 1:51 AM > To: Discussion about mythtv > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] EPG in Australia? > > On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 03:21 pm, Daniel Hall wrote: > > Well actually, what I said is correct. When you say people are 'trying' > to > > copyright the guide data this is not fully true, it *IS* copyrighted > data, > > just because a piece of work is published online does not mean it cannot > be > > copyrighted. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Daniel. > > > > How is it that you can get guide data yet a tiny company like Microsoft > can't? > > Paul > -- > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
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