DirecTV Guide

DirecTV guide is available online through the official web site. Here's a quick review of the features of the service.

The interactive program guide for DirecTV is located at

www.directv.com/DTVAPP/epg/theGuide.jsp

This guide lets you not only see today's programming, but you can also modify the listings more to your liking, according to your time zone, ZIP code, day, or the title of program you're looking for.

Also, the guide links the titles to more descriptive information about the program in question.

The quick searches include finding programming on sports, movies, specials, series, news, or shopping.

To find local channels and the listings, you need to type in your ZIP code.

Once you've got the settings right on, you can save the settings so that you can from then on return to the same interface to work with.

DirecTV Guide - Other Resources

You can also find DirecTV programming listings from other resources, such as tvguide.com.

TVguide.com offers not only programming listings, but you'll get also breaking news, top picks, movie picks, and sports picks out of the programming.

For onscreen guide, DirecTV has agreed to use Gemstar- TV Guide International Inc.'s technology.

Under the agreement, DirecTV utilizes Gemstar-TV Guide's intellectual property and technology, as well as its TV Guide brand, in interactive program guides across the DirecTV subscriber base.

DirecTV launch of Gemstar's TV Guide Channel will be part of the company's "Total Choice" programming package.