Re: [NTLK] TV Guide and/or Remote Control

From: Manuel Probsthain (manu_at_xonxion.net)
Date: Fri Feb 06 2004 - 10:42:21 PST


Victor Rehorst wrote:

>CouchFire was the TV listings service. It's been defunct for a while now.
>
>I actually started working on a replacement for CouchFire... it was to
>retrieve TV listings using XMLTV, then build a Newton package that would
>install the data into a FilePad database for searching the listings. I got a
>lot of it done but the data packages were huge. And then I had a hard drive
>crash and I lost all of the Visual Basic code that parsed the XML and output
>the NTK source... so that's toast.
>
>If I did it again it would probably be as a NewtApp that grabbed a saved XML
>file from a server and parsed it using NTox.
>
>

There is a projekt like this here in Germany, which uses XML data which
is parsed using some kind of java applet.
I'll take a look at how it works...
The URL is http://tvbrowser.sourceforge.net/

Greets,
Manu

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