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Beyond TV 4.0
by Jason Clarke Dec 28th 2005 at 11:10AM
I’ve been a SnapStream customer since before their product was called Beyond TV, and rarely have I gone
through an upgrade to such a complicated and historically finicky piece of software that was as painless as the upgrade to version 4.0 was this time around. It made me not
mind that I had to pay for the upgrade. Beyond TV is a Windows-based PVR (Personal Video Recorder) software package
that allows you to turn a PC into a souped up Tivo. If you have the inclination to take a relatively modest PC - mine
runs on a 4 year old AMD Duron 700 machine running at 900 MHz with 512 MB of RAM - and swap out a few parts, you can
have yourself a PVR that gives you complete control of your shows.
Among Beyond TV’s best features include the fact that it records all video in the relatively ubiquitous MPEG 2 format, with no encryption or other impediments to moving it around. It can also transcode video to smaller formats like Microsoft’s Windows Media or now DivX, which makes the video that much more portable. You can get video off of your Tivo, but I guarantee it isn’t nearly as easy.
While there are still odd hiccups in Beyond TV 4.0, it’s a must-upgrade for any current Beyond TV users, and well worth downloading the trial version for anyone considering making their own PVR.
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Diddle said 12:24PM on 12-28-2005
I'm testing out this trial right now - I got a new ATI x700 Pro on sale after Xmas and decided to move my old ATI Radeon 9600XT AIW into a P4-1.8 / 512 box as a PVR... and I get nothing but skippy audio and occasionally blurry video.
I say to hell with their minimum requirements - or to ATI and their drivers. I've searched all over the web for a solution; many people have a similar problem but the answers are always different. (Oh, and forget ATI's tech support.)
I had tried v3.5 and there are some nice chnages but it seems to me they've actually removed a few of the settings/options you could control. Dunno why.
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