Systems, methods, and user interfaces for facilitating user access to media content

A method comprising:

• displaying, by a media program guide user interface system, a forward-looking view of a media program guide, the forward-looking view including a matrix grid of cells arranged relative to a time axis and a channel axis, the cells representing media programs scheduled for transmission at times arranged along the time axis and on channels arranged along the channel axis in accordance with a media transmission schedule;
• determining, by the media program guide user interface system, that a media program included within the media programs represented in the forward-looking view of the media program guide is designated for automatic recording by a network digital video recording (“NDVR”) facility at the time the media program is scheduled for transmission;
• and
• presenting, by the media program guide user interface system together with the forward-looking view in response to the determining, a visual indicator indicating that the recording of the media program by the NDVR facility will become accessible to a media content access system.

A method comprising:

• detecting, by a recording conflict management system, a recording conflict between a set of requested recordings of a set of media programs;
• determining, by the recording conflict management system, that a media program included in the set of media programs involved in the recording conflict is designated for automatic recording by a network digital video recording (“NDVR”) facility;
• and
• performing, by the recording conflict management system, at least one conflict mitigation operation that leverages the determining that the media program is designated for automatic recording by the NDVR facility.

A system comprising:

• a processor:
• a user interface facility that directs the processor to provide a forward-looking view of a media program guide for display on a display screen associated with a media content access system, the forward-looking view including a matrix grid of cells arranged relative to a channel axis and a forward-looking time axis, the cells representing live media programs scheduled for transmission on channels arranged along the channel axis and at times arranged along the forward-looking time axis in accordance with a media transmission schedule;
• and
• a detection facility that directs the processor to detect, during the display of forward-looking view, an association between content of the forward-looking view and a non-live media program accessible by the media content access system;
• wherein the user interface facility further directs the process to present, together with the forward-looking view in response to the detection of the association between the content of the forward-looking view and the non-live media program, a selectable option configured to be selected by a user to trigger a display of a backward-looking view of the media program guide.