I’m leaving for a longer business trip (3 weeks in total) this Sunday. During that period, both the NFL and NCAA football seasons start. My problem: the EPG on my Sky HD box doesn’t have the programming information for more than a few days. And as a result, I’m not able to schedule to record the games I might want to see when I return.

Sky offers a great service called Remote Record. On their website I can schedule the programmings I’d like to record and then that information is transmitted to my Sky HD box. Works great and I will definitely use this to record the games. But it would be much cooler to have a native application on my iPhone that connects to Sky for the EPG and allows me to select the programs to record. This shouldn’t be too hard to do for the engineers at Sky and the web interface they have right would work on an iPhone as well.

Well, hopefully we’ll see an application for this soon. Not because it’s the killer app for the iPhone, but just because it’s cool to show off to your mates in the pub.