Couchville: TV guide 2.0

Couchville is a new Web service from the folks at SnapStream Media that provides simple, no frills TV listings. Just give Couchville your ZIP code, and a few seconds later you've got the day's programming right in front of you.

What sets Couchville apart from its competitors is a really easy to use interface, which feels a lot like Google Maps. To go in any direction, just click on the guide and drag it. This feels totally natural when you want to see what's happening later in the day, but a little unwieldy for scrolling down the page. Call me old fashioned, but I like using my mouse's scroll wheel.

Couchville is separate from Beyond TV, SnapStream's DVR app. Eventually I'd like to see Beyond TV achieve the holy grail of these services: being able to record programs picked right from the the guide while away from home (for now see Slingbox). In the future SnapStream plans to let users share programming picks with others, and make recommendations based on taste.

In the meantime, it's a great online guide for TV. See also MeeVee, TitanTV, and Zap2it.

(Credit: CNET Networks)

[tcardone05]

Great find

I could never find decent tv listings- until now.

[petebw]

There's better alternatives

take a look at freeguide on sourceforge - free, platform independent and has no adverts.

[tcardone05]

Not a download

However, it is a download, unlike Couchville, where it is accessible from anywhere a PC with internet is. Couchville's ads are unobtrusive (don't get me started with TVGuide's) and it is what I need: a basic, easy to use TV programming guide.

[samateh20]

i saw the mail

[cfaslave]

You can setup recordings over the internet now

You can already setup recordings over the internet or using a mobile phone using BeyondTV. Couchville will eventually replace the current snapstream.net according to Snapstream. For a look at the current snapstream, online guide where you can set up recordings go here:
http://brentevans.blogspot.com/2007/03/schedule-beyondtv-recordings-from-your.html