Is SchedulesDirect as good as Zap2It?

mmatheny · 2007-09-25, 03:04 PM

Since the Yahoo scraper no longer works, I desperately need an EPG. What is better/worse than what Zap2It had?

-stattik- · 2007-09-25, 08:08 PM

SchedulesDirect uses the Zap2It EPG so it's essentially the same.

Maja · 2007-09-25, 08:50 PM

Well its not as good in that its not free, but otherwise I've not noticed a difference in the quality of service. Mine updates nightly without issue.

Ginsu · 2007-09-25, 09:00 PM

The good news is, it's only $20/year. So basically, if you skip one starbucks coffee or one restaurant soda a year, but you pay for this service... you're actually ahead Big Grin

Maja · 2007-09-25, 09:03 PM

Ginsu Wrote:The good news is, it's only $20/year. So basically, if you skip one starbucks coffee or one restaurant soda a year, but you pay for this service... you're actually ahead

I hadn't paid attention to the change in pricing. When I signed up it was $15/3 months, which was still worth it to me. I don't live and die based on my PVR, but I do love having it, especially when you can create a DVD of Blue's Clues for a 3 year old instead of watching the same 5 episodes via On-Demand! Smile

Deusxmachina · 2007-09-25, 09:26 PM

mmatheny Wrote:Since the Yahoo scraper no longer works, I desperately need an EPG. What is better/worse than what Zap2It had?

I used Yahoo till the shutdown and now use the Zap2It free scraper which works very well other than I can't get the * for new shows to show up in the guide, which isn't a big concern anyway. If you haven't seen it, I don't think it's on the wiki but only in the forums.

mmatheny · 2007-09-26, 02:38 PM

Does SchedulesDirect supply the * for new shows?

andydrew · 2007-09-26, 02:41 PM

mmatheny Wrote:Does SchedulesDirect supply the * for new shows?

If you use the I-xmltv process as detailed here it does:

http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Utility/I-xmltvForSD

mmatheny · 2007-09-26, 02:42 PM

That's the same plugin I used with Zap2It for the *. Thanx.

capone · 2007-09-27, 02:02 PM

It's been great, and now I get 15 days of info. Seems to do that pretty quick.

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