Finding one news channel with the DirecTV remote, in quick cuts, then one tap on BoomerOS.
It opens on the DirecTV guide: thousands of channels. From the power button, I look for MSNBC through the menu, the guide, scrolling channel by channel, then a search typed with the arrow keys. It turns out the channel is called MS NOW now. That took 2 minutes 30 seconds and 85 button presses; the long stretches play sped up.
Then BoomerOS, the simple TV home screen we're building for our parents. I tap the Chargers game on the tablet remote, and the TV switches over and types in the channel by itself. The full side-by-side test, with a clock on both, is in BoomerOS vs DirecTV for seniors. More on BoomerOS.
Transcript
What? There's 4,000 stations. Oh my God.
I want to get to MSNBC, right?
Oh, I see something called guide.
Guess I have to search.
It's called MS NOW, is that what it's called?
Let's look at the Chargers. So I click that. You see how it's saying, putting it on.
It switches to the DirecTV, puts in the channel, and we are watching this.