DirecTV....... On Demand (1 Viewer)

[Mr.Pack]

Is absolutely horrible.

That's one thing Time Warner has over them.

Especially looking for TV shows.There is absolutely no rhyme or reason to what they have on-demand. Trying to find the first 2 episodes of a show, and they have every episode but those two, earlier ones and episodes that were already shown.

Very aggravating

 

[RBM]

Sucks. And it's not even technically "on demand".

 

[shadyridr]

Yeah but they have meathead rob lowe

 

[Mr.Pack]

Yeah but they have meathead rob lowe

Love the service, hell the DVR records twice as many shows as Time Warners. But thios crappy so called "On Demand" sucks donkey balls"

Sucks. And it's not even technically "on demand".

 

[belljr]

Have to say comcast even though they are the devil has great on demand

 

[Hawks64]

Have to say comcast even though they are the devil has great on demand

Recently switched to Comcast. On Demand is ridiculous and actually starts on demand.

 

[belljr]

Ridiculous good?

 

[Hawks64]

Ridiculous good?

Yep. The only drawback is often not able to FF through commercials.

 

[belljr]

Ridiculous good?

Yep. The only drawback is often not able to FF through commercials.

you can reprogram the remote when you hit the page up to skip 30 secs instead of 5 minutes. They haven't caught on to that loop hole yet

 

[Hawks64]

Ridiculous good?

Yep. The only drawback is often not able to FF through commercials.

you can reprogram the remote when you hit the page up to skip 30 secs instead of 5 minutes. They haven't caught on to that loop hole yet

How does one do this?

 

[belljr]

Assuming you have x1.

http://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-program-a-30-second-skip-button-for-xfinity-x1/

Page up and page down are 5 minute increments.

With the X1 box and XR2 remote, the process to reprogram a button takes only two steps, but you are forced to sacrifice the five-minute skip ahead button. And as a strange side effect, the five-minute skip back button changes to a 15-second skip back, leaving you with two 15-second skip back buttons on the remote.

At any rate, here is the quick, two-step process:

Step 1: Press the Exit button three times

Step 2: Press 0030

Now, when you use your remote, you'll find that the page up button, which previous skipped ahead five minutes, now skips ahead 30 seconds. And the page down button now skips back 15 seconds, even though the Replay button near the top of the remote also skips back 15 seconds.

I tried other amounts of time, thinking I could enter 0045 for a 45-second skip, 0100 for a one-minute skip, or 0202 for a Chuck Woolery two-minute-and-two-second skip, for example, but none worked. I was, however, able to return both the page up and page down buttons to five-minute skips by entering 0500 in the second step.

While I don't like having to sacrifice my five-minute skip buttons, my viewing habits have me skipping ahead 30 seconds more than skipping forward or backward in five-minute increments.

Are you an Xfinity X1 user? If so, have you found any useful hacks for the XR2 remote? Please comment below.

 

[Encyclopedia Brown]

Is absolutely horrible.

I've lost count of how many times they have advertised that "lost" John Wayne film. It looks awful. Wayne is about thirty pounds overweight, his toupee looks like a dead squirrel, and he is shown using a bullwhip on innocent animals.

Who would want to watch that?

 

[GroveDiesel]

Also annoying that you can't stream sports stuff through ESPN or FOX Sports apps like you can with most cable companies. If I still had Comcast I could watch this NFL game on FOX Sports ago, but can't because I have DirecTv.

 

[FreeBaGeL]

Also annoying that you can't stream sports stuff through ESPN or FOX Sports apps like you can with most cable companies. If I still had Comcast I could watch this NFL game on FOX Sports ago, but can't because I have DirecTv.

DirecTV finally secured a deal for WatchESPN and we're supposed to get access to it sometime early this year. Still, it was pretty dumb that it took the company that constantly advertises that they're the best for sports this long to get it when every 2-bit mom and pop local neighborhood cable company had access before them.