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GBPVR 0.99.5 released

GBPVRGBPVR is a free PC PVR software package including media-center-like functionality, free for download. Unfortunately, it didn't support the PVR card I have in my PC, so I couldn't tell you how well it works. The interface looks nice, and it seems that the setup isn't too hard, so you'll have to let me know what you think of it if you install it on one of the supported cards listed. The currently supported TV tuner cards (as listed on the GBPVR website) are:
  • Hauppauge PVR250, PVR250MCE, PVR350, PVR USB2, PVR150, PVR150MCE and the dual-tuner PVR500MCE
  • ATI Theatre 550 Pro
  • Emuzed Maui-I, Emuzed Maui-II, Emuzed Maui-III
  • DVB-T and DVB-S devices with BDA drivers including:
    • Hauppauge Nova-S
    • Hauppauge Nova-T
    • Hauppauge Nova-T USB2
    • Pinnacle MediaCenter 300i
    • Twinhan DVB-S, DVB-T, DVB-C
    • FireDTV DVB-S, DVB-T, DVB-C
    • Dvico Fusion DVB-T
    • V-Box DTT-150
    • Blockgold GDI DVB-T
    • Lifeview FlyDVB-T
    • ...and lots of others
  • GO7007SB based capture devices, such as Plextor PX-M402U, Plextor PX-TV402U and Lifeview TV Walker
The program requires Windows XP or 2000, and the Microsoft .net framework 2.0 installed to run. Windows 2000 requires MDAC 2.6 or higher as well. GBPVR is not open-source, but you can get started writing your own plug-ins in C#, VB.NET or C++ for it by visiting the developer's forum.

[Via PVRWire]

Filed under: Hardware

The disk drive celebrates its 50th birthday

the first disk drives 50th birthdayThe disk drive celebrates its 50th birthday today. There has been a lot of progress since then, adding many, many GB's to its capacity, and shrinking it to a nice palm-sized design.

The first disk drive built by IBM, in what is now known as Silicon Valley, known as the RAMAC held 5 megabytes of data on 50 disks. The 24-inch diameter of the 305 RAMAC computer made this machine a little hard to move around when it was released on September 13th 1956. Compare that to the 1-inch micro-drives that hold 8GB's of data and fit in your shirt pocket. IBM recently took some time to look back at the technology they grew by watching an old black and white film of the first spinning disk getting a coat of magnetic slurry.

IBM's current research projects include flash memory, power and cooling, virtualization, and long term 100 year plus storage, and storage management's software.

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