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The other day I was talking with one of my coworkers about Tivo and that I really didn’t like the idea of having to buy the hardware and also pay a subscription fee so that I could get the TV Listing (which is one of the few reasons you need a subscription). I remembered an XML.com article on how create your own DIY TiVO box using Linux and XMLTV (thanks to the Freevo and MythTV projects), and got to thinking, that would be a great project for Windows Media Center. Then Scott Hanselman had this post on a co-worker who built his own WMC Home Theater System, and I realized that we (the .Net Community) may want to jump on this opportunity. The major downside I can see is the legal issues that may occur if a project used XMLTV. They are screen scraping the TV Listing info from the Zap2it site, and although the license seems to allow you to use it for personal use, I’m always a bit leery about copyright issues like that. The one solution I could see is if you could some how get the TV Listings from your local cable company. It seems that in the US, if you have digital cable, that is one of the perks, an Electronic Programming Guide. So, it could be in your cable feed, you just need access to it.
Anyone know of any .Net based, open source projects working on supplying TV Listings so that we could bundle it in Windows Media Center? Anyone want to take up the gauntlet?
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I’m an independent consultant, specializing in .Net solutions architecture, based out of New Jersey who also doubles as an evangelist for XML, Domain Driven Design, enterprise architecture and .Net. I do not work for Microsoft, the W3C or any other big company that you may know of (at least not yet). I’ve been an indie for over ten years, and although I’ve been tempted a couple times to take a job with companies like Microsoft, I’ve haven’t found something better than my current situation. I work mostly with the large pharmaceuticals that are based here in New Jersey, and usually find myself on long term contracts. Definitely not the prototypical indie consultant, but it lets me dedicate time to my non-income generating activities like the developer community stuff, plus financing open source projects like XPathmania and MVP-XML. If you would like to talk to me about doing some contract work, just contact me via the contact page. My rates vary widely, depending on lots of different variables, but mostly distance from Jersey, and type of work. Plus, I’ve been known to donate some of my code for various projects.