I recently started getting AT&T Uverse TV programming, after many years of being a DirecTV customer. The cool thing about Uverse — perhaps the only cool thing — is being able to remotely program your DVR using just a Web browser and your AT&T/Yahoo account. You can see a screen shot at left that gives you an idea of what is involved. You can use the search function to find a particular actor or the name of a program and then schedule the recording for any show that is going to be broadcast within the next two weeks. One thing missing — among others — is being able to understand how much storage you have consumed and what you have left over, that is nowhere to be found on this UI or the screens that show up on your TV, which of course are slightly different. 

 Tivo recently announced that they will offer something similar from using mobile phones.