R15 Active Channel Question?

[klwillis]

I rarely use Active channels but today I click on it and went to Best Bets.
I seen a program I wanted to record and I hit the (R) button to record it.
To my surprise you can't schedule anything in the Active Channel to record other than a PPV. I felt like I was a dog being teased by someone with a T-bone that had no intention of letting me have it without first running around the block.

Why even have Best bets on the Active channel I don't understand it.
I know the new EPG slated to come out by Oct may fix this but the
tease of Best Bets got to me.

FYI I never did record the program manually.

Yes I know I can manually record it by going to the channel and finding the time.
But Its a DVR not a VCR thats why I don't own a VCR.

Its great knowing the D* development team reads this stuff.
Oh BTW 10C8 is another baby step in the right direction.
By next year I hope the R15 and the R20 will be at a development state where I no longer compare them to other DVRs

Yet another 2 cents.
Keith

[jonaswan2]

This is a question? Anyways, your right, with the current guide you can not schedule a program with Best Bets.

Also, Best Bets is mainly there for advertising new programs to DirecTV's customers. I don't think it's there for our benefit much, but more for DirecTV's benefit.

[ISWIZ]

This is a question? Anyways, your right, with the current guide you can not schedule a program with Best Bets.

Also, Best Bets is mainly there for advertising new programs to DirecTV's customers. I don't think it's there for our benefit much, but more for DirecTV's benefit.

As he said, but, as the link in the active channel for what "America's watching" works, a link to record a show that's being advertised should be there IMHO.

[jpl]

This almost sounds like it's going to be DirecTV's answer to one piece of TiVo funcdtionality. Someone else who switched from the R10 to the R15 made a comment to me the other day, about one thing he missed having. When a show (or, more annoyingly, a commercial) showed up, if you were prompted, you could just hit the thumbs up and it would set up the show to record for you (and I guess if it were for a commercial it would download stuff on that product for you, but I never tried it). If I had to guess, I would say that this is DirecTV's attempt at that type of functionality.

[jpl]

Or at least it WILL be, when it's fully functional.

[jonaswan2]

Or at least it WILL be, when it's fully functional.

I don't think so. NDS already has technology for something similar to that that I believe DirecTV will deploy.