zap2it pulling the plug "Jon Davis" <jon[ at ]REMOVE.ME.PLEASE.jondavis.net> 6/21/2007 12:43:51 AM http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/20/1920224 Doesn't Media Center use zap2it for the Guide features? Does this news mean something bad for Media Center, such as Microsoft having to send an Automatic Update to either kill the Guide or ask the Windows user for a credit card number to start using Gemstar, or something? Jon

Re: zap2it pulling the plug "Jason Tsang" <jason-onlineDEL[ at ]ETEmvps.org> 6/21/2007 12:57:32 AM They are stopping end users from programmatically getting at the guide. That's completely different from eliminating deals with other companies (e.g. Microsoft). -- Jason Tsang - Microsoft MVP Read my blog for the latest in Media Center topics (and other topics that interest me) http://jtsang.blogspot.com More information by me http://jtsang.mvps.org http://www.classicsunveiled.com Find out about the MS MVP Program - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx "Jon Davis" <jon[ at ]REMOVE.ME.PLEASE.jondavis.net> wrote in message news:uQHRlz5sHHA.4132[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/20/1920224 > > Doesn't Media Center use zap2it for the Guide features? Does this news > mean something bad for Media Center, such as Microsoft having to send an > Automatic Update to either kill the Guide or ask the Windows user for a > credit card number to start using Gemstar, or something? > > Jon > >

Re: zap2it pulling the plug "Jon Davis" <jon[ at ]REMOVE.ME.PLEASE.jondavis.net> 6/21/2007 1:11:41 AM Nevermind, per the thread in microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter "Zap2it, Channel Guide and MSN Remote Record" Jon "Jon Davis" <jon[ at ]REMOVE.ME.PLEASE.jondavis.net> wrote in message news:uQHRlz5sHHA.4132[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/20/1920224 > > Doesn't Media Center use zap2it for the Guide features? Does this news > mean something bad for Media Center, such as Microsoft having to send an > Automatic Update to either kill the Guide or ask the Windows user for a > credit card number to start using Gemstar, or something? > > Jon > >

Re: zap2it pulling the plug dickm 6/21/2007 6:17:00 PM Some of us who watch only ATSC stations use zap2it instead of MCE's guide so we can get the digital subchannels. This is bad news. I'm going to regret going back to MCEs guide. When is Microsoft going to include digital subchannels in their guide? -dickm "Jon Davis" wrote: [Quoted Text] > Nevermind, per the thread in microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter "Zap2it, > Channel Guide and MSN Remote Record" > Jon > > > > "Jon Davis" <jon[ at ]REMOVE.ME.PLEASE.jondavis.net> wrote in message > news:uQHRlz5sHHA.4132[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/20/1920224 > > > > Doesn't Media Center use zap2it for the Guide features? Does this news > > mean something bad for Media Center, such as Microsoft having to send an > > Automatic Update to either kill the Guide or ask the Windows user for a > > credit card number to start using Gemstar, or something? > > > > Jon > > > > > > >