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Sky Launches Online Recording Service
Open to subscribers to Sky+ or Sky HD, people will be
able to rectify all those times when they left the house for work, having
forgotten to set the recorder for those all important episodes of X-Factor and
Big Brother.
This service joins the remote record text messaging
service (pictured) 
launched last year by Sky, which the company says has received tens of
thousands of remote record requests.
The service is free and once users register, they can
go online, access Sky's
seven-day TV electronic programming guide and select programmes to record with
a few clicks. The guide can be searched by time, day or programme name.
“Remote Record is perfect for those situations when
you hear about a TV show and want to record it there and then, if you're stuck
late at work or if you've simply forgotten to record that programme you want to
watch." said Stephen Van Rooyen, Sky's director of product management.
“It's about making TV fit around people's increasingly busy lives.”
Recording
requests can be made from outside the UK also but must be submitted 30 minutes
before the start of the programme. All in all, very handy if you use Sky but for the rest of the UK, it's back to scribbling reminders on the back of our hands.
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Of course if you use Media Center we've had the functionality for ages - either via MS Remote Record in the USA or by using the excellent WebGuide MCE add-on in the UK.
Posted by: | March 1, 2007 12:37 PM