Many of you now have Tivo or other similar digital video recording (dvr) devices in your home. I do not have one attached to my TV but I do have one in my computer. There are several reasons that I think the computer option is the way to go.
The hardware required for this to work is pretty straight forward. You need a TV Capture card (I use Hauppauge's WinTV USB2) and maybe an external hard drive for the increase in storage space that you will eventually require. For software, I highly recommend Snapstream Media's Beyond TV.
Beyond TV ($69.99 USD) is really good software for what it does. You can search your local TV listings (works in Canada) for whatever show, movie or sporting event you want. You can elect to watch it live with replay ability, record it once or record all new episodes. I just programBeyond TV at the beginning of the season and all the episodes were digitally recorded on my computer. You can then convert them to DIVX so that the recordings don't take up as much space and you can even burn them to DVD. The software is a resource hog and takes a while to load and shut down, but it is the best out there from what I've sampled.
One of the coolest features, in my opinion, is the remote recording option. If I find myself at work and a colleague informs me that the Victoria's Secret runway show is airing before I get home that night, I can just go to www.snapstream.net (using my user name and password), find the program and ask it to record. A signal will then go to my computer and when the show is aired, it will be recorded and waiting for me at home.
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