[pchelpers] Re: TV card.
- From: Scott McNay <Wizard@xxxxxxxx>
- To: John Durham <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 22:33:55 -0600
Hi John,
Saturday, January 31, 2004, 7:29:29 PM, you wrote:
JD> Curious stuff. It looks like TV sent over your internet connection to
JD> the card, or am I mistaken? Has someone converted the humble PC into a
JD> TV set? If right, I'll probably never use it. All we have is 1 TV aerial
JD> an 1 dial up modem connection, and we have too much TV with that.
It does a number of things. It can receive TV listings automatically
(currently just U.S. and Canada), search them for series that you've
picked, and schedule them to be recorded. You can also select specific
episodes, such as movies, to be recorded. It also can play the shows,
and has a full-screen mode suitable for TVs and remote controls. There
are oher PVRs that perform these functions. The function that's
apparently unique to SS is the ability to provide a web server so that
you can schedule, download, and stream shows remotely via an internet
connection. Currently, SS can record in WMV, MPEG, and DiVX formats.
It can also automatically convert shows to another format, including a
different resolution, so that you can, for example, convert a show so
that it will fit on a handheld, so that you can watch a show while you
commute (as passenger, hopefully) to work.
It records using a standard TV capture card. The web site liss the
cards tha are specifically supported and specifically unsuppored; for
others, you'll have to download the demo version and try it out.
The 2.x version had master/slave capability, so that two systems could
co-ordinate to record shows. A show that would not get recorded by
one system because of a scheduling conflict with another show could be
recorded by the other system. This feaure got removed in 3.x, though.
--Scott.
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