Icy-TV software will turn your computer into a high performance television receiver and recorder in just a few moments providing a robust set of intuitive features.
Channel switching
Icy-TV offers various ways of channel switching, just as you wish. You can switch channels using up/down buttons, or you can browse all channels after pressing C button. In this view you can see four categories of channels - switching between them is as easy as possible. You can also directly switch channel using an asociated number.
Electronic Program Guide (EPG)
Digital televison offers not only a picture with audio. The boradcast also contains a program guide, maintained by the broadcaster, which guarantees that events are always up to date. Icy-TV provides a distinctive view of available channel events fo next days. You can also read a short description of each event.
Teletext
Teletext works in exactly the same way you are used to with analog television. You can directly enter the page number, or you can use your mouse to navigate among pages. Icy-TV stores the history of browsed pages, so you can navigate back exactly as in your internet browser. Also there is a memory for all teletext pages that will keep you from waiting for a page. You can also pause the teletext, or browse along the suppages. The font and style is optimized for best user experience.
Subtitles
Subtitles are another feature that differs digital television from analog one. Software vendors had to adapt to this new feature and present it in a very pleasant way. Icy-TV offers nice looking subtitles with transparent black borders rendered using hardware accelerated display card that guarantees excellent user satisfaction.
Here are some key features of "Icy TV":
· support for all kinds of DVB devices (DVB-S, DVB-T, DVB-C) with proper drivers
· built-in decoders for major compression formats
· hardware accelerated rendering
· remote control support
· electronic program guide,
· teletext
· recording
Limitations:
· This version is time limited for 30 days.
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Manual scheduling
· Fixed problem with scanning europen terrestrial channels
· Terratec Cinergy S USB is now supported (thanks to RichFinn)
· Many bug fixes
