The team at Snapstream have announced the opening of a new SnapStream website, http://code.snapstream.com, designed to be a central resource for developers working on Beyond TV and Beyond Media plugins or skins.

The folks over at Snapstream like building PVR’s…a lot, and their latest has 11 tuners and 6 hard drives!!! More here.

The folks at Snapstream are offering a free Firefly PC Remote ($49.99 value) with any purchase of Beyond TV or Beyond TV bundle to midnight, Tuesday, January 3, 2006. Details here.

DivX, Inc., today announced that Beyond TV 4 from SnapStream Media, Inc. has added the popular DivX format to the range of choices their PVR software offers for TV recordings.
Beyond TV 4 users can now ShowSqueeze their favorite TV shows to DivX or, alternatively, they can record their shows straight to the DivX format. Either […]

SnapStream Media, Inc., has announced that Beyond TV 4 offers official compatibility with digital ATSC tuner cards manufactured by market-leading TV tuner card manufacturers including ATI Technologies Inc., AVerMedia, and DViCO.
Official compatibility means that users of ATI, AVerMedia Technology, and DVICO TV tuner cards can confidently assemble PC-based DVRs with SnapStream’s award-winning Beyond TV DVR […]

Snapstream have announced that the lastest version of Beyond TV (v4) will be released November 10.
The major highlights of version 4:
- Support for High Definition OTA (over the air) capture cards
- Support for DivX capture and ShowSqueeze
- New “Browse by category” screens let you find the kind of shows you like to watch.
- Support for […]

SnapStream Media has announced that TV tuner card manufacturers ADS Technologies, KWorld, and VBox Communications will bundle Beyond TV with their aftermarket HDTV tuner card products.
Rakesh Agrawal, president and chief executive officer of SnapStream Media, Inc. noted several improvements in the DVR technology that will be included in the OEM bundles.
“All of our OEM customers […]

Got an email from the folks over at SnapStream on their new series of posts on HD TV. Some great content:
As you know, we’re including high-definition support in Beyond TV 4. Because setting up a PC-based DVR with HD is a bit more complicated, we’ve decided to educate our customers on all things HD. […]

The Snapstream blogs is talking company values, and although I’m tempted to make jokes based on the fact they continue to use a standard Kubrick WordPress template and/or about how you should feel warm and fuzzy about your PVR software, I’m won’t, because its quite impressive. Read it here.

SnapStream Media will stated that they will be releasing Beyond TV 4 in the coming months.
Beta users have already started seeing some of the upcoming features under the codename “Retro”. The big ticket items slated for Beyond TV 4 are FM Radio support, DivX support, and HDTV!
(via the Snapstream Blog)