Enhanced DirecTV program guide data in Beyond TV 4.8.1
April 7th, 2008 at 11:16 am by Rakesh
The latest version of Beyond TV added a feature that some people have asked me questions about. The release notes listed this line item:
- DirecTV Pay Per View Guide Data
With Beyond TV 4.8.1, we’ve added enhanced program guide data for DirecTV users. Before we added this feature, those of you using Beyond TV to record from DirecTV may have noticed that large portions of DirecTV’s pay-per-view channels would show up as just a continuous stream of “Pay-Per-View” entries. For example, this is what a portion of your DirecTV program guide might have looked like before:
Now, with our new DirecTV data feed, you’ll get actual program information with more accurate start and stop times. For example, NBA League Pass subscribers will get information about which teams are playing. Same thing for most other sports packages on DirecTV. And pay-per-view movies now show up correctly in the program guide. Here’s the same chunk of the program guide after we deployed the enhanced DirecTV data:
April 7th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
This is not the case for DirecTV’s MLB Extra Innings. Many of the channels for it are incorrectly listed still as NFLHD, which all say “SIGN OFF”, and the channels that do list correctly as MLB only occasionally list the game information.
Is it possible for this to be fixed? The fixing of the NFL channels would really be a good step forward, if nothing else.