Today’s app is just as useful as it is cool, and interesting. Simply take a picture of a book, DVD, game, and you’ll get back a description and links to numerous sites where the item is featured. I’ve tested it on numerous items, and it works really well. I’ve had to get really obscure to find something that it wouldn’t return a listing for.
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DirecTV beams down iPhone app
Filed under: iPhone, App Store, iPod touch
Long rumored and eagerly awaited, DirecTV has finally posted their free iPhone app for finding and recording content. The DirecTV app [App Store link] has been pretty hard to find. It didn't come up in an iTunes search last night and this morning, but that may have been fixed.Locating programming is much faster and friendlier than using the iPhone friendly web page that had been the way to look at the DirecTV schedule.
The new app allows you to search for any shows up to 14 days in advance. You can browse the DirecTV schedule by date and time or by channel. You can select from multiple DVRs if you have them, and you can record a single episode of a program or a series.
The app runs on either the iPhone or iPod touch with version 2.2.1 software or above. You can search the schedule even if you're not a DirecTV subscriber, but if you want to trigger recordings you must use your DirecTV password. I set up a few tests and all the recording worked, one DVR request was made 2 minutes before the program started and the data made it to the DVR via satellite in time to catch the show.
I liked the old web-based method, but this is light years better. You get good program descriptions and ratings when available, and speed over the 3G network or even EDGE was quite usable.
Note: DirecTV says the app requires DIRECTV Plus(R) DVR (models R15, R16, R22), DIRECTV Plus(R) HD DVR (models HR20, HR21, HR23) or TiVo(R) Series 2 receivers with 6.4a software.
TUAWDirecTV beams down iPhone app originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Today’s app is just as useful as it is cool, and interesting. Simply take a picture of a book, DVD, game, and you’ll get back a description and links to numerous sites where the item is featured. I’ve tested it on numerous items, and it works really well. I’ve had to get really obscure to find something that it wouldn’t return a listing for.
Steve Jobs for President... of General Motors
No single thing will save GM. Except, perhaps, the appointment of a visionary, vicious bastard-genius to permanently replace Rick Wagoner. Someone like Steve Jobs.
DirecTV beams down iPhone app
Filed under: iPhone, App Store, iPod touch
Long rumored and eagerly awaited, DirecTV has finally posted their free iPhone app for finding and recording content. The DirecTV app [App Store link] has been pretty hard to find. It didn't come up in an iTunes search last night and this morning, but that may have been fixed.Locating programming is much faster and friendlier than using the iPhone friendly web page that had been the way to look at the DirecTV schedule.
The new app allows you to search for any shows up to 14 days in advance. You can browse the DirecTV schedule by date and time or by channel. You can select from multiple DVRs if you have them, and you can record a single episode of a program or a series.
The app runs on either the iPhone or iPod touch with version 2.2.1 software or above. You can search the schedule even if you're not a DirecTV subscriber, but if you want to trigger recordings you must use your DirecTV password. I set up a few tests and all the recording worked, one DVR request was made 2 minutes before the program started and the data made it to the DVR via satellite in time to catch the show.
I liked the old web-based method, but this is light years better. You get good program descriptions and ratings when available, and speed over the 3G network or even EDGE was quite usable.
Note: DirecTV says the app requires DIRECTV Plus(R) DVR (models R15, R16, R22), DIRECTV Plus(R) HD DVR (models HR20, HR21, HR23) or TiVo(R) Series 2 receivers with 6.4a software.
TUAWDirecTV beams down iPhone app originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
DirecTV iPhone app provides DVR controls
DirecTV has launched an app that allows customers to control their home DVR systems from an iPhone or iPod touch. A search function can be used to find shows up to 14 days in advance, or the content can be browsed by channel or date and time. The listings include additional information such as show descriptions, length and rating. Users can record single shows, an entire series or Pay Per View con...
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A deal between Apple and China Unicom is unlikely to take place in the near future, says Wedge Partners. The research firm notes that while Unicom is now often seen as close to becoming the official Chinese iPhone carrier, a variety of factors suggest that a deal could be delayed for months more. Central among these is a new list of phones to be authorized for the company's 3G network, which inc...
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