Tag: SAGETV

Over the past week we've been bringing you some of our favorite applications of all time. And most of them have been free. I love freeware and open source software. In fact, almost every application I run on my Windows, Windows Mobile, and Linux devices didn't cost me a penny. But I decided to do something a bit different for my favorite apps posts. I want to highlight some of the applications ...

TiVo, the company that has become pretty much synonymous with the idea of the digital video recorder plans to create a PC version of the software it uses on set top boxes. The company is partnering with Nero to develop the software. Up until recently, TiVo's Linux-based software was designed to run only on TiVo-branded boxes. But over the past year TiVo has been partnering with cable companies ...

Come September, Zap2it Labs will no longer offer the free TV guide data used by PC-based personal video recording software like MythTV, Media Portal, and GB-PVR. Well, there's good news and bad news for anyone using those programs. There are at least two groups, CTpvr and Schedules Direct (formerly known as Easy TV Data) planning to pick up where Zap2it leaves off next month. And it looks like ...

There are two major announcements out of software-based PVR makers SageTV this week. First off, Version 6.0 of the software is out, featuring a number of improvements. Probably the biggest new feature is the inclusion of online video. Right now, that means you can access content from Google Video from your couch. You can browse through videos online just as easily as you can schedule and watch ...

The commercial software PVR landscape has been dominated by SnapStream and SageTV. Both products install on Windows, and both have loyal followings. Recently SageTV made an interesting move; they've released a version of SageTV for Linux, which includes either the software to install on your existing Linux system, or a complete Linux distribution as part of the setup kit. The idea here is that ...