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SageTV 5.0 - First PVR Software with Built-in TV, Music & Photo Placeshifting

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

Media Release from Sage:
SageTV Media Center today becomes the first full-featured personal video recorder/media center software product to offer placeshifting capabilities enabling users to access their live or recorded TV, music and photos on any PC when they are away from home. The integration of PVR and placeshifting functionality in a single system yields better […]

Yahoo Go! TV! SUCKS!

Monday, May 1st, 2006

what more can I say. No warning on download. It even gets to right near the end before you get this:

Yahoo couldn’t give a rats arse about ppl outside of the US at all. Meedio worked outside the US, obviously Yahoo isn’t interested in us though.

Yahoo! buys Meedio

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

Just when we thought Yahoo Go TV might end up delivering a PVR product….Yahoo goes out and buys PVR software maker Meedio.
Says Meedio:

Today is a big day for the team here at Meedio; we have sold most of our technology to Yahoo!
David Brott, Jeff (beergeek), Kenny (fasttech), Pedro (flea0) and I are joining Yahoo!’s Digital […]

Showshifter bites the dust

Monday, March 13th, 2006

Showshifter has closed down and is on the market. Sad really, I used the trial version a year or two ago and it wasn’t a bad program…indeed it was one of the few peices of PVR software that worked straight away with no problem at all, but because of their propriatry format there was little […]

Media Center to be dumped in Windows Vista

Monday, February 27th, 2006

I’m not sure if this is good or bad news, but the list of versions for the new Windows Vista has been leaked, and there is no MCE in it! The old MCE functionality will be rolled into Windows Vista Home Premium and Ultimate editions. All the details are at Paul Thurott’s Superistefor Windows here.

GBPVR approaches v 1.0

Friday, February 24th, 2006

A new release from the folks a GBPVR, v 0.96.8.
From the announcement:
2006-2-21 v0.96.8
- Added a checkbox to disable plugins. This can be useful for tracing the source of faults.
- Fixed a bug that would cause the task description to not show when using a horizontal menu skin.
- Now supports video in a window (not for […]

Democracy launched, Windows XP Media Center Version to follow

Friday, February 24th, 2006

The non-profit Participatory Culture Foundation has launched Democracy, which they bill as the world’s first comprehensive open source internet TV system. The Democracy Player for Windows, Mac, and Linux completes the platform.
“The days of waiting for internet video to buffer and watching it in a tiny box are over,” says Participatory Culture Foundation co-founder Nicholas […]

EvolutionTV PVR adds iPod, PSP video compression

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

Miglia Technology has announced an update for their EvolutionTV PVR for the Macintosh. The new 2.6 version is a free update for users of the device.
The updated software adds real time video compression for video iPods and Sony Playstation Portables (PSP), removing the need to go through software exporting to those devices.

MythTV 0.19 released

Monday, February 13th, 2006

It’s been a while since we’ve seen a new release from the Open Source team behind MythTV, but they’ve gone out and suprised everyone by released MythTV 0.19:
The major changes in this release are:
* LiveTV rewritten to support saving buffered content while watching
* Signal Monitoring for DVB […]

Blueado Mini Windows Media Center PC

Friday, February 3rd, 2006

This is one interesting looking MCE box… from I4U:
The Blueado Mini measures approx. 4.2×8×12 inches. It features a 200GB hard drive, TV-Tuner and a built-in DVD writer. Users can record about 250 hours of video with the Blueado Mini. An Intel Pentium M CPU and 1GB RAM are used in this system. The company says […]