PMS won’t be calling Gracenote directly via their API. Instead, PMS, and all clients actually, will be calling our own cloud EPG provider directly. This affords us the opportunity to potentially augment/improve the base level Gracenote metadata in the future. Let’s say hypothetically that we have problems with the new provider’s series sequencing (I don’t expect this to be the case, as it has been with the current provider) this would allow us to swap out that portion of the metadata in favor of another source, say IMDB. Essentially we won’t be wholly reliant on a single source of data for Live TV & DVR in the future.
