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The Dijit Remote Refresh, Now With NextGuide Social TV Profiles!

Posted on December 19, 2012 by Jeremy Toeman

The Dijit team’s been really hard at work all year building NextGuide, which was quite the task and accomplishment. A few months ago we recognized it was time to give the Dijit Remote another round of enhancements as well, so we got to work on giving it a good refresh.  Most importantly, of course, was updating it to support everything new in iOS-land since last winter, which includes Retina iPads, the iPhone 5, and iOS 6 support too.

Additionally, we incorporated the NextGuide social TV profiles into the Dijit Remote, so users of either app can discover and share content back and forth.  We are building the most robust personalized TV discovery platform out there, and this is the first step to bring it to iPhones as well.  Between our two apps we now have a lot of people finding new shows and movies to watch on live TV, as well as streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime, and more (note: the Dijit Remote app only supports Netflix search at present).  We also added the extremely popular “record to DVR” button for DirecTV subscribers, allowing anyone to program their home DVR the moment they find a great show or move to watch on live TV.

Lastly – accessibility.  We’ve heard story after story from people who use accessibility enhancements on their iOS devices, and how the Dijit Remote is integrated into their personal needs.  I was shared images of a young girl in a hospital room with extremely limited mobility, but just enough to control the TV using her iPad and the Dijit Remote app.  Unfortunately she couldn’t access all of the features, so we set about fixing that, and now we’re very proud to bring accessibility enhancements across virtually every feature in the app to help anyone who might need it.  It’s not often we get to be in a position to just help people, so it’s something that we all feel pretty good about.

It’s been a long while, but we’re happy to bring this update to the legions of loyal Dijit Remote users, hope you love it! Check out the new and improved Dijit Remote here!

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2 thoughts on “The Dijit Remote Refresh, Now With NextGuide Social TV Profiles!”

  1. Bazzle says:
    January 28, 2013 at 4:13 pm

    Thanks for the update.
    I run 2 Griffins and use 2 ipods and an iPad to control them.
    Very happy with the product.
    Initially it was like trying to learn french without a teacher but when I set up my 2nd one in a diff room I learnt from my prev errors.

    What I would like (and many others from the dijit forum) would be to have the 4 coloured buttons in the New button list.
    Previously you could “borrow” them from one model that was in the list but that model doesnt show the coloured buttons any more.
    These are used a lot in other countires, Australia UK etc, maybe not in the USA.

    I do have them saved on an device in another “room” but I can’t find a way to copy buttons or layouts from room to room on the app. Spent ‘hours’ 🙁 trying…
    Also the next guide doesnt work in Australia but that is OK as most of our PVR’s will do this.
    Just ensure the app can be set up without it in future revisions please.

    Oh and did I mention the 4 coloured buttons.. please add and let us know 🙂 they serve a multitude of uses on a few of my devices.

    Thank you
    Bazzle

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  2. Bazzle says:
    January 28, 2013 at 4:16 pm

    Link to my review and pix.

    http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=2048019

    Bazzle

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