If you’re a DIRECTV satellite TV customer, you may have noticed a new feature while surfing through some of your favorite channels. It’s called DIRECTV ScoreGuide, and it is a great way to pull up all of the latest scores from Major League Baseball, the NBA and the NHL.
ScoreGuide works by showing you a small red icon the lower right hand corner of your television screen. It will pop up from time to time when you are watching DIRECTV sprorts channels such as national cable networks, regional sports channels, and DIRECTV subscription sports channels. These are the channels in the 700-799 range that show the NFL Sunday Ticket, NBA League pass, NASCAR Hotpass, and the like.
Simply push the red button on your remote control when you see the Score Guide alert, and an interactive menu pops up. It stays to the right of your screen, so you can still watch the current sports channel while scrolling through all of the latest sports results. The guide can also be minimized even further to the bottom right hand corner of the screen, but then you have to scroll through the results one by one.
The DIRECTV ScoreGuide is free, and is available to customers who have one of DIRECTV’s advanced receivers, generally any DVR or HD DVR. Scores on the DIRECTV ScoreGuide will include NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, as well as Top 25 college scores in football and basketball. PGA Golf Tour Majors and well as Grand Slam Tennis results will also be available on ScoreGuide. NASCAR coverage is scheduled for next season.
ScoreGuide is the latest enhancement to some of DIRECTV’s expanded tennis and golf coverage. If you have seen the expanded coverage of the French Open or Wimbledon, the ScoreGuide feature deployed during these tournaments was extremely helpful to fans in keeping up on all of the latest results.
My initial testing of the ScoreGuide feature found it to be a bit frustrating at first. If you switch to a sports channel, don’t hit the red button immediately. If you wait between 5 and 15 seconds, the ScoreGuide prompt may appear on its own. If not, you can hit the DIRECTV remote control red button and ScoreGuide usually comes up. If you have already been on a sports channel for some time, ScoreGuide seems to work fine, its only when you first switch to a sports channel that the feature acts a bit buggy.
DIRECTV ScoreGuide is especially good for keeping up on other games and not having to switch away from the game you are currently watching. While scrolling sports scores have become the normal procedure, especially for ESPN and ABC, ScoreGuide gives the viewer instant access to any other sporting event in progress. DIRECTV again tops Dish Network and cable TV in providing additional sports coverage for their customers.
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I’m sure this feature, the Score Guide, will be most appreciated by the huge sports fans who just can’t get enough of the games!
And since it’s free, I can tell this will be a big hit with the subscribers!
I HATE SCOREGUIDE! I cannot receive the transmitted Closed Caption because Scoreguide blocks The Closed Caption. How do I stop Scoreguide so I can see the Closed Caption of the sports that I watch?
Why can’t I bring up the score guide whenver I want to? Instead, I have to switch channels and switch back and then wait for the popup. Wtf who designed this?