BeyondTV is PVR/media center software for Microsoft Windows produced by the american company SnapStream. Like most media center software, and devices such as TiVo and Sky+, BeyondTV allows you to watch, pause and record live TV, as well as scheduled recording, and recording of shows regularly. It also allows you to search for a show in its EPG, allowing the user to find out when shows are on without having to search through all the listings themselves. Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Software development is the translation of a user need or marketing goal into a software product. ... A software release refers to the creation and availability of a new version of a computer software product. ... An operating system (OS) is a set of computer programs that manage the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ... Look up genre in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... It has been suggested that Media Server be merged into this article or section. ... A Web site (or colloquially, Website) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on a Web server, usually accessible via the Internet or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML, that is almost always accessible via HTTP... PVR can mean Personal video recorder. ... It has been suggested that Media Server be merged into this article or section. ... Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ... TiVo (pronounced tee-voh, IPA: ) is a popular brand of digital video recorder (DVR) in the United States. ... This article needs additional references or sources to facilitate its verification. ... The Sky Digital EPG in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. ...

Some of the more powerful and unique functions that BeyondTV sports are SmartSkip (the ability to automatically detect scene changes, including commercials, and then quickly jump between them) and ShowSqueeze (the ability to automatically compress your TV recordings to other formats and profiles). BeyondTV can also be used in a server - client configuration, allowing one computer to host all your media and tv tuning capabilities, while other computers which are connected to it via a network can stream this information. These additional computers could also be connected to TVs for more comfortable viewing.

As of BeyondTV 4.5, SnapStream now offers an optional DVD burning plug-in. This plug-in allows you to burn directly from the application to DVD. DVD burning is only supported for mpeg2 recorded shows.

Problems

• Because of the wide range of TV tuners supported, many do not work correctly or do not record to all file types.
• Only ATSC digital tuner cards are supported, so TV playback cannot be used in countries where DVB is used (most European counties, Australia, India etc) See also: List of digital television deployments by country
• The software's EPG cannot gather data from the transmission stream, but only from internet sources, so if used on a PC not connected to the internet its functionality is decreased. Also, while SnapStream offer unlimited subscription to their online EPG service, if they were to ever go out of business then its users might have to resort to paid services such as TitanTV

The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) is the group that helped to develop the new digital television standard for the United States, also adopted by Canada, Mexico, and South Korea and being considered by other countries. ... Official DVB logo, found on compliant devices DVB, short for Digital Video Broadcasting, is a suite of internationally accepted, open standards for digital television maintained by the DVB Project, an industry consortium with more than 270 members, and published by a Joint Technical Committee (JTC) of European Telecommunications Standards Institute... The transition to digital television is a process that follows different paces around the world. ...

See Also

• Comparison of PVR software packages
• Digital Video Recorder

The following is a comparison guide for popular DVR (PVR) software packages. ... Foxtel IQ, a digital video recorder and a satellite cable set-top box. ...

External links

• SnapStream website