Program DVR with Cell Phone from anywhere, anytime

AT&T and Verizon offer customers to remotely record television shows with mobile phones.
Wireless carriers AT&T (fomerly Cingular) and Verizon announced their subscribers can now use their mobile phones to remtely record TV shows.

AT&T will use Homezone, a video-on-demand service with EchoStar. Verizon will allow its customers to record TV shows with their cell phones with Tivo digital video recorders.

Sprint is also planning a similar service later this year with Comcast and Time Warner.

Although a nice feature to have to be able to record TV shows anywhere using your cell phone, researchers said only 10 percent or less said they wanted the feature.

Verizon will charge $1.99 a month for the service and will work with 12 models. AT&T said it would be free to its users who subscribe to Homezone service, which is $9.99 a month with a subscription to EchoStar's satellite TV & AT&T's broadband service. Wow that's alot of subscriptions.

Currently, customers can remotely record TV shows with TiVo through the Internet with a PC at no extra charge.