Turn your PC into a DVR

Monday, February 27, 2006

Beyond TV from SnapStream is a DVR software package that will turn your PC into a HD DVR in just minutes without charging you monthly fees. The price for the standalone software is $69.99, but also you can buy tuner packages. With the Firefly remote you will have the same entertainment experience as using a stand alone DVR unit. The actual version of the software Beyond TV4 supports a variety of TV tuner cards (also supports multiple tuner cards without needing additional licences).

Using Beyond TV4 you will never pay subscription fees, you can skip commercials and parts of the show, search for the shows by actor, title or director, record HDTV from over-the-air digital TV signals, record in DivX, MPEG-2 and WMV formats and play and pause FM radio stations. The EPG - Electronic Program Guide contains 2 weeks of program and schedule information (for USA and Canada) and it is highly customisable.

Beyond TV now supports free OTA high definition television.With Snapstream's EPG it's easy to browse and record HDTV programs.

A new great future of Snapstreams Beyond TV is the web interface. You can schedule the recordings from the internet, the only thing you need to do is to login to snapstream.net, locate the shows and add it to your scheduled recordings.