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I have used snapstream for a few years. I really liked the feature of
the streaming live tv over the web. I used it last year when I was at
work to watch foxnews during the war in Iraq. I had my cable box hooked
up and could remotely change the channels and get the streaming video
in my browser. The quality was actually pretty good. I am switching to
mythtv now.<br>
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- James<br>
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Adrian Gomez wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Well. I use both products (Actually use is a strong word, since I do most of my
recordings on my Tivo) and belong to the extended beta group at Snapstream
(once the product goes through a few beta cycles, I get a crack at it).
Beyond TV does nothing but PVR funtions, they have a new product that is still
in beta (but has been announced) called Beyond Media that does pictures, and
photos and integrates to Beyond TV. I have yet to see Beyond Media (since it is
too early in Beta).
Without going into extensive detail, I believe that their is only one major
feature that Beyond TV has that MythTV doesn't: That is the ability to stream
content including live TV to a web browser.
As far as features major features missing from Beyond TV (the release version, I
am not talking about the betas) that exist in MythTV:
1. Limited support for hardware cards that are not the PVR-250 and PVR-350.
2. No TV out support on the PVR-350.
3. Not a client backend system. In the current release you have to install the
entire application on one box.
4. No shutdown/restart.
Beyond TV is less stable than MythTv (depending on hardware), but after some
initial bumps I have had both Beyond TV and MythTv running for weeks at a time
without reboot and recording the shows without a hitch.
Beyond TV is much easier to install.
I hope this helps.
Adrian Gomez
Quoting Henk Poley <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:hpoley@dds.nl"><hpoley@dds.nl></a>:
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<pre wrap="">Op dinsdag 6 april 2004 00:32, schreef Dan Morphis:
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<pre wrap="">Brian M. Bennett wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Has anyone looked at BeyondTV from snapstream.com? I would be interested
in hearing what other folks thought of this package and how it compares
to MythTV. Thanks.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.snapstream.com/">http://www.snapstream.com/</a>
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<pre wrap="">Guy I used to work with uses it. He's having all sorts of problems with
it. For him, it won't record the full showing of a program. It dies
mid way through. . .
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<pre wrap="">I think it would be insteresting to ask him if there are any features he
(potentialy) liked.Tthen let him work with MythTV and ask if there's anything
'missing' in Myth.
Henk Poley <><
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