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View Full Version : SD has reached the $20 per year goal! hackmeister 09-21-07, 08:24 AM Schedules Direct has reached the $20 per year subscription goal!: http://forums.schedulesdirect.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=360 Congrats to the SD people and to the community for hitting the tipping point. Rgb 09-21-07, 01:31 PM Cool! Time to build those two Myth boxen I've been planning... Rgb 09-21-07, 06:25 PM ...and to the whiners, I have family members who've subscribed to TV Guide magazine, with the primary use as a schedule guide for manual VCR recordings for over 20 years. I beleive a year of TV Guide has been over $20 for years now. Also, growing up in the 70's and 80's, my family subscribed to the local major paper to get the local TV guides, too, so from my perspective, there has *always* been a cost attached to organized, reliable program indexes/guides/schedules... HDTimeShifter 09-22-07, 03:58 PM Yay! Cost is always an issue. One of the things I factored into my decision to build a Myth box v. TivoHD is the $100/year (at cheapest $300/3 year upfront payment) Tivo annual subscription fee. The drama with the ending of that other service and startup of Schedules Direct and fee dropping from $20/3 months to $20/year all happened so quickly in only about a month - less time than I've even had to finalize my research on Myth hardware! Yeah, one reason for my subscription to the local paper is their weekly TV listing booklet in addition to Sunday coupons, Wednesday food ads, and weekend electronics/computer store ads, and of course, news info. The local paper tried discontinuing their TV listing 6 months ago without informing people that it was a free option that they had to call/email to continue receiving it and there was an uproar and they had their customer support overloaded with complaints! Stupid marketing/executive decision that failed to realize that probably the majority of subscribers use that guide. With people now using digital cable's on-screen listing or Tivo or Schedules Direct listing, people will probably rely less on hardcopy TV listings, but for those without the above will still want the hardcopy, plus it's still nice to be able to see an entire prime-time lineup on one page (wish it could be on 1 screen ;)). mvv 10-01-07, 03:08 PM wish it could be on 1 screen ;) It *can* be if you use Mythweb and have sufficient resolution... newlinux 10-01-07, 04:25 PM It *can* be if you use Mythweb and have sufficient resolution... Yep, and this is why I do most of my scheduling via mythweb, as well as seeing what's coming on for the night. |