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SnapStream Beyond TV 4.1
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Beyond TV 4.1
PVR software for your PC.
Requirements:
Video capture card
Pros:
- Nice interface
- Built-in commercial skipping
- Ability to compress to DivX and other formats
- Web interface
- SnapStream .NET integration
- Chromeless window support
Cons:
- No parental controls
- No support for recording to multiple drives
- Version upgrades are not free
- Not an active customization community
Price: $69.99 ($29.99 for Beyond TV Link)
Review Date: March 5, 2006
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Introduction
If you're one of the millions of people who own a PVR, you know how it revolutionizes the way that you watch television. Your choices in the area of PVR systems have grown a lot over the past couple of years, and you now have not only TiVo and your service provider offering you PVR solutions, but also several third-party companies that sell applications that make your computer a PVR media center.
One of those third-parties is SnapStream, the developers of BeyondTV. BeyondTV installs onto any computer with a TV capture card and turns that computer into a personal video recorder. The amount of television that you can record is limited only by the hard drive space you have available. As you run low on drive space, BeyondTV can compress files to save space or archive them.
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