More Money Please!

I took my wife out tonight while my son Daniel set up the new MythBuntu OS on our Inspiron. By the time I came back, he had some good news: He got everything working including the wireless. And, some bad news: MythTV/Boxee needs $20 per year in order to give us a TV guide. I was a bit shocked about this because I figured that you could get this information from the Internet for gratis. 

For example, this information is readily available for free from TV Guide. There could be some terms of service that prevents you from scraping the TV guide listings, but then there's a Macintosh Widget that does this very thing. So, I am really surprised by this. It's $20 per year, and not per month, so it isn't an unreasonable amount of money, but it was surprising to see this never the less.

We are also finding some surprising limits. For example, you can watch 60 Minutes on the Web, but we cannot get it to be part of Boxee since it doesn't really have an Internet feed. The CBS station of Boxee doesn't have it, and there's no CBS News station (CBS News is a separate website from CBS). However, we did find Hawaii Five-O.

Tomorrow, it is to beautiful Secaucus to the PC Expo to pick up a TV tuner card.