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What is Beyond TV?

Beyond TV can be said as a software interface that allows you to get control over your television using PC. You can easily install Beyond TV software on existing PC with some additional supported components and can have fun with its features.

Beyond TV Features

• Provides graphical user interface that is very easy to interact.
• Beyond TV serves a personal video recorder and provides pause and play back features for live TV. Also you can record and watch recordings with multiple speeds of forward and rewind.
• Beyond TV supports multiple TV tuner cards that allow its users to record and watch multiple shows at a time with picture-in-picture facility.
• Beyond TV’s electronic program guide (EPG) has ability to construct Personal Guide for his or her broad cast service keeping the users up to date with all the future programs.
• The EPG or personal guide can be browsed or searched by actor, director, keyword or title. Moreover you can schedule recordings according to the searches and even can tell the machine to record a particular show, an episode or a complete series.
• Beyond TV’s smart skip feature allows you to skip the commercials while recording. Also you can associate chapters with your recordings just like you see in original DVD.
   
• You can schedule recording not only from your living room but also from the Internet. Just logon to snapstream.com website, locate your show and schedule recording.
• The show squeeze feature allows you to compress the recordings saving your disk space. Also you can burn recordings onto DVDs with provided DVD supports.
• Recordings can easily be transferred to other PCs, laptops or pocket PCs so that you can take your favorite recordings wherever you want.
• Beyond TV’s TV link feature allows you to establish a network in your home, linking Beyond TV setup to other PCs, sharing recordings and even live TV shows without extra TV cards and service charges.
• By the online facility of settings and options you can customize and organize your directories that is you can change recording directory or customize channel line up.

Setting UP Beyond TV

• Beyond TV software runs on Windows XP professional or home edition with directx9.0 or greater.
• Works fine on 1.5GHz processor but can show good results on 700MHz processor in case you use TV card with Hardware encoding support.
• 256MB RAM, hard disk capacity as vast as your recordings, video cards and supported TV tuner cards according to the broadcast.
• Install your TV card either internally in PCI slots or connect externally by USB support.
• Connect your PC to your TV set by just plugging the coaxial cable from antenna or analogue cable into the input of TV tuner device. In case digital signal (cable or satellite TV) it requires to tune the set-top boxes either by IR blaster or by a serial cable pack.
• Now simply install Beyond TV software from SnapStream installer and enjoy Beyond TV services.
• Beyond TV can compete with any popular DVR such as TiVO.