AT&T Homezone launches scheduled recording by cellphone

by Evan Blass, posted Mar 7th 2007 at 10:37AM

There's no question that the DVR is a welcome advancement over the old school VCR, but even the new tech won't do much for you if you leave the house and forget to set your box to record. Certain services like TiVo let you program your machine from a distant PC -- and let's not forget how easy Orb makes remote recording -- and now AT&T is offering its Homezone subscribers an even sweeter deal, allowing them to get their record on directly from web-capable cellphones. At the office but forgot to set your box to capture Guiding Light? No problem. Out to dinner on a Monday when you realize Heroes starts in five minutes? Again, you're golden. You're upstairs playing WOW on a Friday night and can't tear yourself away from the current raid to tape a Full House marathon on Nick at Night? Um, you may have bigger problems than AT&T and your cellphone can solve. Anyway, Homezone customers can access this new feature immediately -- along with an influx of 10,000 downloads from Akimbo -- so things should get just a little more exciting while you bide your time waiting for U-Verse.

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Filed under: Cellphones, Home Entertainment

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jbruder @ Mar 7th 2007 10:54AM

This functionality is similar to the ORB service, except that orb can be accessed from any web-enabled device. It also streams the output of your tv tuner to Windows Media or Real Media (so you can watch your recordings with Core Pocket Media Player on the bus :p). The downside: you have to have a compatible tuner card in a PC running the orb client.

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Brent @ Mar 7th 2007 12:39PM

Beyond TV from www.Snapstream.com has this functionality. You can access your PVR TV guide over the internet and schedule recordings. You can also do the same on a web-enabled mobile phone using the mobile version of the tvguide.

Best of all you won't have to use the crappy Cable Box! If you have a software encoder, you can even watch your shows on your phone like with orb.

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Adrian Williams @ Mar 7th 2007 3:29PM

ATT we need FTTH/FTTP fvck this homezone crap

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fsda @ Mar 7th 2007 9:25PM

Yay for 6620!

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James @ Mar 8th 2007 1:02PM

I loved the 6620! I still keep it around as a beater phone (backup to my N80).

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