Schedules Direct is a non-profit organization that provides raw U.S./Canadian tv listing data to Free and Open Source Applications. Those applications then use the data to provide things like PVR functionality, search tools, and private channel grids.
TVxb downloads TV schedules and writes out a customized TV guide in XMLTV format. The XMLTV file can be used as an Electronic Program Guide in Vista, Media Center Edition 2005, MediaPortal, and other PVR systems.
XMLTV is a set of utilities to manage your TV viewing. They work with TV listings stored in the XMLTV format, which is based on XML. The idea is to separate out the backend (getting the listings) from the frontend (displaying them for the user), and to im