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For many of us, the way we watch TV isn't keeping up with how we live. Between cutting the cord and juggling multiple streaming services, it can feel like there's always a new option that still ...

If you have DirecTV and you're fed up of having to use an old-fashioned remote to get to the content you want to watch, starting today, you can just holler at Amazon's Alexa voice assistant to do the ...

Apparently that "coming soon" teaser page meant only a few days, as the aptly named DirecTV App for iPad popped up on the iTunes store this morning. The features were pretty well detailed on the ...

With the update, you should be able to use your voice to ask an Alexa-enabled Echo device to record TV shows, change channels, and perform other playback functions for your DirecTV set-top box.

DirecTV has revealed that it will unveil a germ-free remote for hotels this summer. The satellite TV company announced earlier today that it plans to release the first anti-microbial remote control as ...

Many DirecTV subscribers use their digital video recorders to record episodes of TV shows or movies for viewing at a more convenient time. However, DirecTV's high-definition DVRs are capable of much ...

The dirty little secret of iOS remote control devices is that the vast majority of them are terrible. And they are for good reason. Simple as creating a universal remote control may sound, it presents ...

Ryan is a tech/science writer, skeptic, lover of all things electronic, and Android fan. In his spare time he reads golden-age sci-fi and sleeps, but rarely at the same time. His wife tolerates him as ...

When DirecTV customers download the satellite-TV company’s new remote-control application to their smartphones, they’ll hear a familiar voice. The app, which lets users control the television by ...