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Ray Smith wrote: > I think you're stuck with the subscription services offered by TV Compass > (which I use) that offeres full Radio Times listings for a year for 14 quid > or the digiguide version which I think is 8 pound for a year. > The digiguide version works through isolo or avantgo and there is a free > version of that which only offers 1 days listings at a time whereas the paid > one is 7 days. However perhaps if you sync regularly you could download the > free listings and then extract from the isolo or avantgo file ? > Sometimes I think for basically 50 pence a month the TV compass offering is > well worth it considering it's a full guide, up to 14 days and gives > cable,sattelite freeview and terrestial listings. Works with lots of > different tellys and has a learning application for some other TV brands as > well. > > There was an article in PCW magazine a few months back that explained that > Online listings don't allow anyone to freely make listings available. > Sites like yahoo etc. that give free listings pay a fee to listing services. It may be worth having a look at XMLTV to see how they get their listings from the RT website. James -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html