RSSDish Network adds remote DVR access
By Tim Conneally | Published May 8, 2009, 12:01 PM
Following in the footsteps of TiVo and DirecTV, Dish Network today launched Dish Remote Access, which lets customers access and program their home DVRs from any Internet connected device.
Users can search for, and schedule to record, content on multiple receivers up to nine days in advance. Searches can be filtered by genre, channel, content rating, language, and more. There are currently a few limitations to the service, which include a lack of control over external hard drives, no ability to switch between Tuner 1 and Tuner 2, and over-the-air listings that are subject to irregular availability.
Receivers compatible with the free service include the ViP 612, 622, 722, and 722k. The Slingbox-enabled ViP 922, scheduled to launch later this year, will also be remotely programmable through Dish Remote Access.
mscroggi is correct. The beta test has been going on for sometime. Dish has had the ability to do remote DVR management for over two years.
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|Hollywood, you dont know what you are talking about. I was a beta tester for this functionality many months ago.. It was working pretty well.. Dish didnt release it because they bought SlingBox and had to merge both services together. They had this feature long before DirectTV came out with theirs.
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|Maybe so, but Dish is nowhere near as good as DirecTV. I had Comcast, then Dish, now DTV. Dish is the unwanted retarded child of the satellite TV world. I hated it almost as much as Comcast.
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|Wow Dish,
Let's take DirecTV's feature and copy it. That's innovation.
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|The article doesn't spefically mention being able to play back, just schedule recordings, so I doubt the MPAA will care too much.
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|I'm not real sure what the point is here. If the MPAA gets it way, functionality such as this will become illegal anyway. They do have plenty of power on their side.
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|Get ready for another lawsuit Dish.
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