Tuesday, July 24, 2007

EasyTVData Now SchedulesDirect - Replacement For Zap2It

UPDATE: BE SURE AND READ THE UPDATED INFORMATION ON THE TV GUIDE SITUATION AT THIS POST



If you are one of the MythTV, GBPVR or MediaPortal Users who have been using Zap2It for your TV Guide service then you probably know that Zap2It will stop providing free tv listings September 1, 2007. Since that time, a team of MythTV developers and others are working on a possible replacement for Zap2It. The were going to use the easytvdata.org domain, but now because of possible trademark issues, they have registered a domain for Schedules Direct and have the old easytvdata.org redirecting to the new domain. No more news available on the project, but hopefully we'll be hearing more within the next month.

From the SchedulesDirect.org Site:

Easy TV Data renamed to Schedules Direct,
You may have noticed that you are now being redirected away from easytvdata.org to this new website.

Due to some concern over trademark infringement, we have decided to change our name
to Schedules Direct, which does not appear to conflict with any existing
trademarks in the TV/Media space. Please update your bookmarks to point to our
new website:
http://schedulesdirect.org/

We also thank you for your suggestions and all of the lawyers and accounting people who
have offered their help, since we now have a fairly sizable pool of good
candidates to look over.