DirecTV's Video on Demand service has been one of their new DVR's most anticipated features, and it looks like it may finally be here!

Registration may be free but you must be one of the in peope to get into this... I thought DirecTv was a public company? DirecTv offer this to regular Joe's please.

As one of Scotts Staff we encourage free thought and expression and link to where ever there is news be it Avs, Tivo, DbsTalk, Dbs Forums, Home Theater Forums etc... Having said that, this is great news for the DIRECTV subs with the new box's... after a dull couple of years DIRECTV is coming to life with many new HD channels... and this is great news for all customers as the competition heats up between the 2 Satellite Providers and Cable...

faux paux, I wouldn't worry about it. The public beta test of DirecTV On Demand is a good sign that it will soon be available to all DirecTV HR20 owners. The public betas are the last step before national release.

Any idea why the information about the SBE show you are talking about isn't listed in the events section on the Multichannel website with the other shows? Enjoy your column, keep up the good work.

Great post Scott!! I think someone is jealous that their sites aren't doing so well these days. Thank you for allowing Satelliteguys to thrive on free thinking. September should be an interesting month for both satellite companies.

WOW David, thank you for being so honest about restricting your members freedom. I really hadn't realized but am now able to make better decisions on what web sites I frequent. Kudos for your honesty, raspberries for your totalitarian attitude.

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I think it would be a nice gesture for Scott to post how other DirecTV DVR users can participate in the VOD beta as well, since it is open to the public. I am in it, and I know others who are as well.

Very Good Post Scott!!

Dailey,

The reason why I did not post the information was because the service is still not work for 67% of those folks who are in the CE program. I did not want to aggrivate others who go to try it and find out that they can't access it yet.

DirecTV on Demand is a beta product and still has a few kinks to work out before I would advise normal home users to give it a try.

Let them get it stable and working for the testers first and I will be happy to post the information for folks on how to get it.

Scott

Fair enough, Scott. I agree, 'normal' home users shouldn't try it at this time. As you know, more adventurous users will be adequately informed of the risk involved when they join the CE program and get the download instructions and how to revert back to the national software if they change their mind. Good news is testers are reporting late today that the initial authorization problems have been overcome, so you might want to post the info on how to get in on it before the next window to download the software opens up, probably this Friday/Saturday evening. You might also mention that once it's downloaded, there will be a window of time (maybe 2-3 days) before the authorization comes down from DirecTV to your receiver to be able to finally kick the tires on VOD.

Well the good news is the current crop of VOD testers are mostly all up and running smoothly. The bad news is that the word as of today (Thursday) is that DirecTV feels they have enough VOD testers at this time, so those downloading the next beta this week-end will not be able to activate the VOD menu. Any other new features will work, however.