Tag: PVR

CyberLink has announced PowerCinema Linux, media software that "transforms a Linux PC into an entertainment center featuring analog and digital TV, radio, Teletext and electronic program guide browsing." It looks like it's aimed primarily at PC and set-top box manufacturers and provides most of your standard media center features including music, movies, and photo slideshows. [Via ...

Now that the Xbox 360 is out you've got to find something to do with your old 2001-style Xbox. You can either give it to the ungrateful neighbor kids, or you can put it to better use by turning it into a PVR. Xbox Resource Center has a slick guide to getting MythTV, the open source PVR software, running on your big black box. Of course, the Xbox has neither a TV tuner nor the horsepower to encode ...

I’ve been a SnapStream customer since before their product was called Beyond TV, and rarely have I gone through an upgrade to such a complicated and historically finicky piece of software that was as painless as the upgrade to version 4.0 was this time around. It made me not mind that I had to pay for the upgrade. Beyond TV is a Windows-based PVR (Personal Video Recorder) software ...