I was looking at aTV Guide appin the store the other day and I thought it was pretty cool, but because I am a DirecTV customer, it is often difficult to find TV Guides that are not aligned with zip codes but with Satellite Regions.
I remembered that the DirecTV page posted a great guide. So I tried to navigate to there page with my iPhone. I could see the page, but it wasn’t formatted for the iPhone so it was really difficult to navigate. After a little bit more research I did identify aDirecTV mobile phonepage that seems to work well on the iPhone.
This is a really cool feature because if you are away from home and you hear about a show you want to record you can now use this page and your iPhone to set it up remotely.
If you have a DVR, just go to the DirecTV.com page and create an account. Then navigate to themobile compatible pageand login.
It has a very basic menu, but pretty much lets me do what i wanted. It has “Search For Shows”, and a “Manual Record” feature. No guide, but search is pretty useful.
The Search for Shows feature lets you enter a search string. It display a list of matching shows. Pick one, and it gives you a description and the option to “Record Once”, “Record the Series”, or see more show times. I have multiple receiver, so when i pick “record”, I get a list of receivers. Once i pick the receiver, i can give it a recording priority. Since I can’t see the list of what is already set up, I can say “record if possible” or “Definitely Record this”.
The Manual Record feature lets you pick a channel, date, time, duration to record just like recording on your old faithful VCR. This is usually only useful when the guide data is not accurate, but neat to have.
Also, I had high hopes for the login part, because the sign in form has a “Remember Me” checkbox, but it doesn’t seem to work. Each time I go to the web page, I have to enter it from scratch.
