SnapStream Media's Beyond TV enables consumers to record television shows to their PC hard drives.

It is also a media server that enables TV recordings to be simultaneously viewed on multiple devices inside the home.

TV recordings made with Beyond TV can be served from the PC to wireless web tablets, Pocket PCs, laptops, and home televisions. SnapStream Media combines the PCs low-cost, connectivity and power with the popularity of PVRs and televisions to create a solution that delivers on the promise of digital home entertainment. Requires Win 2000 or XP, TV Tuner Card, 600 Mhz Processor, 128 MB Ram, Video Card, DirectX 9, 10 GB HD.

Here are some key features of "Beyond TV":

· Record more than one show at the same time or watch one while recording another with multi-tuner support
· Quickly watch recorded shows by skipping blocks of commercials, or part of a recorded show, using SmartSkip
· Easily find and select shows to record using the free TV guide or do a search by title or keyword
· Deliver the Beyond TV experience to other PCs in the house with Beyond TV Link
· Record an entire TV series ? Record a single, all or all new episodes of a show with one click
· Shrink files with ShowSqueeze to save hard drive space
· Transfer recorded shows to handheld devices like Microsoft Portable Media Centers for on-the-road viewing
· Set up your own personal video library with DVD-ready recordings
· Schedule recordings away from home via the Internet or a web-ready phone
· Plug your PC into your TV and let the show begin

Limitations:

· FREE 21 DAY TRIAL

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Bug Fixes
· Fix to managment of pooled video folders
· During LiveTV or Recorded Show playback, a system's screen saver or auto-lock will end the playback session
· Fixed bug in web admin where large lists would cause timeouts before a page could save
· Fixed several scheduler issues regarding lineup configurations with show duplicates existing on analog/digital
· Fixed a bug that caused ShowSqueeze operations on 4+ hour HD recordings to fail and/or loop
· Improved QAM mapping resolution detection and fixed a bug that would show 1080i for all channels
· Fixed a bug where special characters in LDAP group names would cause them not to import
· Extremely large HD files would report incorrect duration
· Improvements
· Overhaul of the lineup configuration page of the Web UI (Channels.aspx)
· Updated h264 Decoder
· Improvements to the WebUI when using IE8
· Improved handling of recording meta-data when being transferred from an external source