PVRLib > Snapstream going High-Def
[Digital Tech Life] On the SnapStream Blog, the company explains that the PC is the perfect device for watching and recording high-def content. Several companies are going to license and bundle Beyond TV with HDTV PVR technology with their HDTV tuner cards.
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eHomeUpgrade | Connected Home & Digital Lifestyle News [Digital Home, Digital Living, Digital Media]: SnapStream Media, Inc., a leader in digital home entertainment products, announced today that world-renowned TV tuner card manufacturers ADS Technologies, KWorld, and VBox Communications will bundle Beyond TV, SnapStreams award-winning DVR software, with their aftermarket HDTV tuner card products. (via Cosmos)
PVR Spot: DIY PVR, TV Cards and more: m tempted to make jokes based on the fact they continue to use a standard Kubrick WordPress template and/or about how you should feel warm and fuzzy about your PVR software, Im wont, because its quite impressive. Read it here. (via Cosmos)
[digitalmerging.la] Contemplating Life After Tivo: After seeing the following two blog entries ("Leading HDTV Tuner Card Manufacturers Bundle SnapStream Media's High-Def DVR Software" and "my.TV PVR - We Love Macs Long Time"), I thought to myself -- now that Tivo is tied to Comcast, what am I going to do about a PVR service in the future? Since the hype of "Tivo is dying!" and "Tivo needs a deal!" has faded, reality is setting in.
[Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things] Build your own PVR and get a TV that you really 0wn!: Now here's Build Your Own PVR, a site that focuses on building a high-powered, full-featured personal video recorder out of your old PC. Unlike TiVo, the box you build for yourself will be on your side -- not only will it never delete a program without your permission, it can also auto-skip commercials, move video seamlessly to your other PVRs and computers, and provide you with additional useful home-server functionality, such as serving as your firewall or router.
[HD Beat] Beyond TV 4 To Support HDTV: Beyond TV and other similar products will fulfill two consumer needs. They allow us to timeshift our content, which will include HDTV, and also provide the ability to watch that HDTV on computer monitors that by and large are becoming more capable of displaying high-def content.
[Edwin Gore's Dopey Homepage!] Adventures in Televison (Part One): I'm using the Nvidia PureVideo decoder, which really does seem to make a difference in the display quality on a hi-def TV. The main problem that I continue to run into is that I get harddisk thrashing on occasion when switching from recorded shows to live TV and soemtimes when switching channels in live TV - thi will basically lock the machine up for a little over a minute.
[Ehomeupgrade.com] eHomeUpgrade Forums - Leading HDTV Tuner Card Manufacturers Bundle ...: As a leading provider of complete, easy-to-use DVR solutions, we are committed to providing our customers advanced software and hardware that maximize the high-definition experience, said Mike McCoy, president and CEO of ADS Technologies. By combining SnapStreams HDTV capabilities with our pace-setting HDTV tuner/video capture device, users will be able to turn their PC into an HDTV home theater that provides dynamic viewing, pausing and archiving of HDTV broadcasts as well as standard TV and cable broadcasts.
[Blogs.snapstream.com] SnapStream Blog: Since the beginning of June, we have, including this one, featured six different SnapStream powered digital living rooms. Its been such a pleasure to see the different HTPC home entertainments centers that our users have put together.
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