Charlie Owen - I Want This Too, Rags

I Want This Too, Rags

Rags Gupta (who was instrumental in bringing Live365 to Online Spotlight back in the day -- how ya doin' Rags!) writes the following in DVR Feature Request - One-Click to Record Future Programs...

"I'd like to be able to click a "Remember to Record" button while the ad is playing or within some time lag after it plays and have my DVR put the advertised show on its recording schedule."

I want this too, Rags. Just the other day my wife saw an advertisement for Conviction, the new court room drama from the Law & Order folks. We went looking for it in the Media Center Electronic Programming Guide (EPG) and it wasn't there because the first episode was outside the 14 day window. Now I have to remember to go looking for it at some point in the future.

Oh, and clearly there is an advertising bonus here -- imagine being able to track how many people have scheduled a DVR recording of a show in advance, then publicize the following with a movie trailer voice over...

'Over XX million viewers will be recording this show in two weeks -- will you...?'

Great idea Rags!

Categories: Media Center | DVR | Comments [7] |

| Posted on Friday, February 24, 2006 6:41:51 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

Friday, February 24, 2006 8:00:03 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

Tivo already does this. During promos for certain shows or movies you can hit the thumbs up button and it will start recording that show or movie. Beware the Tivo patent. ;)

Brad

Friday, February 24, 2006 5:47:08 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

Sky in the UK (same technology as DirectTV) are about to introduce this in the UK. Press the green button during a promo to set a recording.

Stuart Anderton

Friday, February 24, 2006 8:35:47 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

Indeed great idea :) I guess if this feature will be added, there will be some changes to the database schema made too. But if this feature will be added, how about "friendly reminder"-feature. Ohmm... like next week there is a great movie on FOX or some special. But you don't want to record it - just watch it. The friendly reminder would pop up a dialogbox reminding you to watch the show on FOX.

-Olcay

Olcay Buyan

Friday, February 24, 2006 8:48:56 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

hi any one reading there, when we get the WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER 11 BETA, please confirm the possible date that microsoft will upload the beta.

guruparan

Friday, February 24, 2006 10:53:48 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

Good to hear from ya, Charlie! I didn't even think of the advertising implication -- great point...marketers could even get data on the 'early adopters' that have scheduled/added the program for later viewing, which they could use to inform their subsequent marketing efforts.

Rags Gupta

Monday, February 27, 2006 7:00:58 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

Yeah I want this too. Guide data is wwwwaaaayyyy to limiting (especially on a POS 6412 that has awful guide data from comcast). They start pushing adds for these shows months in advance (Thief for instance), and I think oh yeah I want to see that... then in particularly for get to get it into the guide and miss the first couple episodes, then I have to go through the bother of torrenting them and getting into the MCE box to watch as a interrupt. I look to devices to be smart prosthetic memory for me, this should be a no brainer, ur make that a "+1 brainer, feature that is badly needed in a DVR's.

Griffon

Thursday, March 02, 2006 3:29:53 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

Oh my God! That is exactly what me and my wife were talking about the other day. Thsi feature is a must.

Rupak Ganguly

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