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DirecTV’s new mobile site lets you control your DirecTV DVR through your mobile phone

Categories: Announcements, iPhone,
By: , IntoMobile
Monday, January 21st, 2008 at 3:14 PM

DirecTV mobile website gives mobile phone users control of their DVRImagine that, DirecTV is banking that the mobile-space is the next-step in DVR control. The satellite-TV company has rolled out a new mobile-website that its DVR-customers are going to find fairly (hopefully) useful.

The new website allows DirecTV customers to log-in and schedule DVR recordings right from their mobile phone. A Macenstein reader reports that the mobile-website works darn well on the iPhone and even remembers log-in credentials to help streamline the emergency-DVR-recording process.

Never again will you miss that special “Bowel-Movements” episode of Oprah because you forgot to schedule the recording before you hit the road – or, um, maybe a Pay-Per-View sporting event (yea, that‘s the ticket).

The DirecTV mobile-website allows you to search by show-title and even knows how many DVR boxes you have in your house – it’ll prompt you to specify which box you’d like to control.

DVR-toting DirecTV customers can hit up the DirecTV mobile-website and give the new platform a whirl. We’re all about cable-TV over here, so let us know how you like mobile-DVR-scheduling.

DirecTV mobile-website 

[Via: Macenstein]

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Will Park

Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...