{{Short description|Non-profit organisation that provides programme listing}} '''Schedules Direct''' is a non-profit organization that provides a low-cost television program listing service for open source and freeware digital video recorders.
Developers from several different projects including MythTV, XMLTV, and GB-PVR founded Schedules Direct in response to Tribune Media Services's (TMS, now Gracenote) decision to shut down its free Data Direct program listing service as of September 1, 2007.<ref name="mythtv">{{cite web|url=http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Schedules_Direct|title=Schedules Direct|accessdate=2007-08-10 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070927004509/http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Schedules_Direct <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 2007-09-27}}</ref> MythTV and other such software use the data to display an on-screen electronic program guide (EPG), and to schedule upcoming recordings. Schedules Direct contracts with Gracenote to purchase a license to redistribute its data—which other commercial digital video recorders also use—to Schedules Direct members. Individuals may become Schedules Direct members for $35 a year,<ref name="membership">{{cite web|url=http://www.schedulesdirect.org/membershiplevels|title=Schedules Direct Membership|accessdate=2007-09-22}}</ref> and members may use the listings service with approved open source and freeware applications.<ref name="approvedapplications">{{cite web|url=http://www.schedulesdirect.org/approvedsoftware|title=Approved Applications List|accessdate=2012-02-03}}</ref>
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==External links== * [http://www.schedulesdirect.org/ Schedules Direct website]
Category:Television technology
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