beyond tv 4 is out!

[Goosemaster]

"YEAH!"

* No Subscription Fees. Ever.
* Skip commercials and other parts of TV shows
* Search for shows by actor, director, or title
* Intelligent Electronic Program Guide resolves conflicts
* New! Record HDTV from free, over-the-air digital TV signals
* New! Record in DivX, MPEG-2 and WMV formats
* New! Search for movies and sports, as well as by other categories
* New! Play and pause FM radio stations

more:http://www.snapstream.com/products/beyondtv/upgrade-features.asp

muwhahahaha

http://www.snapstream.com/

 

[Goosemaster]

oh wait..I have to pay?


<---beyond 3 tv owner

 

[mzkhadir]

how is it compared to others ?

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: mzkhadir
how is it compared to others ?

It's 4

 

[Goosemaster]

I am loading it up right now.

We shall see

 

[Pathogen03]

so thats a program for a media-center-style PC... I dont want to have to split my cable line between computer and modem, my modem needs all of its speed

 

[yobarman]

dude i want that!

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Pathogen03
so thats a program for a media-center-style PC... I dont want to have to split my cable line between computer and modem, my modem needs all of its speed

lol...dude.....you need to get your facts straight...

 

[Goosemaster]

THe killer, even moreson than HD support is Divxx support....


jsut imagine.... AUTOMATIC, UNATTENDED transcoding of all your shows to divx, which encodes so much faster than wmv....mmm...they had to get rid of it for licensing reason and oh joy am I happy that they brought it nack:heart:

 

[Goosemaster]

http://www.snapstream.com/products/beyondtv/upgrade-features.asp

 

[ViRGE]

Meh, as a BTV3 user, I see no significant reason to upgrade.

 

[drnickriviera]

Let me know what you think. I"m running 3.7, but am not sure if it is worth $30 to upgrade.

What rate does everyone else record at? I'm just using mpeg 2 at the 'good' rate 3900kbps

Anyone know of a really simple program that I can use to cut out commercials?

 

[drinkmorejava]

but this still doesn't have any of the media center functions does it, just straight tv and such, no music, videos, pictures...?

 

[dartworth]

Anyone compared this to SageTV v4?

 

[Kilrsat]

Originally posted by: ViRGE
Meh, as a BTV3 user, I see no significant reason to upgrade.

There are lots of them that aren't listed, such as wanting to help me pay rent

Its hard to appreciate some of the changes just in a feature list, but really its opened up the game to whole new levels of extensibility. If you do have any questions on SnapStream software, leave me a PM and I should be able to answer your questions.

 

[HomerSapien]

Sage TV updated to version 4 as well. I think all of those features are included (maybe not directly from sage, but user plug ins can do divx encoding) and they finally released studio...

I may try out btv4 just for comparison and to see if it is any better...I absolutely hated btv3.

 

[brxndxn]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: Pathogen03
so thats a program for a media-center-style PC... I dont want to have to split my cable line between computer and modem, my modem needs all of its speed

lol...dude.....you need to get your facts straight...

lol..

That's like saying, "I only have one radio in my house because I want my radio to have the best quality!"

 

[Kilrsat]

Originally posted by: dartworth
Anyone compared this to SageTV v4?

Out of the box, I'd say its better, but I do know this comes down a lot to a matter of opinion. I did do a quick test of the HD handling (playback*, recording, etc) and my opinion is that Beyond TV 4 does it better.

*Playback in terms of being able to play a transport stream recording coming from anywhere, BTV, MCE, Sage, Meedio, someone's firewire pull from a cable box, partiall corrupt streams, streams with incorrect PATs, switching between available substreams, etc.

 

[hevnsnt]

remind me when it hits the torrent sites

 

[kalster]

MCE is soo better than either sage or beyond tv (i own beyond tv 3), can anyone point out something that differentiates either of these from MCE

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: kalster
MCE is soo better than either sage or beyond tv (i own beyond tv 3), can anyone point out something that differentiates either of these from MCE

transcoding..I used to use MCE...


no longer