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hi I'm David Katz meijer from cnet at CES 2012 I'm here to talk about the media guide technology in toshiba's l70 260 200 TVs media guide is a new feature that puts a electronic program guide on the TV screen that actually controls the cable box so you can scroll around the guide and press a button and it'll actually turn the channel on your cable box using an IR blaster that's pretty cool because the cable box guides found on a lot of boxes across the country are pretty bad so this guy gives you a little bit more information it's a nice slick look with a black background allows you to program a favorite channel selection for example it also allows you to browse movies and other services and it feeds from voodoo services like blockbuster and cinema now so all those are available for searching and browsing the real cool feature about this is the fact that the cable box will be controlled although it does not allow you to program DVR future recordings by the box you can just get reminders with this system toshiba is also releasing an android app that works with tablets and phones there's also an iOS version that works with an ipad these apps will actually duplicate the guide on the screen of the phone or the tablet so you can use that device to control this guide and actually control your cable box that way so it's a pretty cool extra little feature of course we're searching and all that stuff available on the app itself that's a quick look at toshiba's media guide powered by Rho V I'm David Katz mayor at CES 2012 you