While SnapStream Media's Beyond TV just went into release 3.7, the company is already talking up version 4, which is due in a few months. The headline (as you've already seen above): it'll support the recording of HDTV programming.Currently, the new version will support four over-the-air tuner cards, with more likely to follow, according to the company. Anyone who purchases Beyond TV 3 since yesterday will get a free upgrade to v.4.
Other new features include FM radio and DivX support. SnapStream says you'll be able to use DivX as easily as you now use MPEG 2 and WMV. You can record direct to DivX from software encode cards; v.4 also will support Plextor's DivX-based hardware encode cards.
Down the road, beyond v.4, SnapStream also plans to incorporate its Beyond TV into its Beyond Media application. Owners of both products will get a free upgrade to the integrated version.
Meanwhile, the biggest changes to version 3.7, which was released earlier this month, are support for Plextor’s TV402U/MV402U and integrated audio in ATI’s newer boards and drivers. You can see the other changes on SnapStream's Web site.
1. "also will support Plextor's DivX-based hardware encode cards." this is something that was added in Beyond TV 3.7 that was released 2 weeks ago. Soham didn't make that clear in the posting yesterday... the way it was written makes it sound like support for Plextor's hardware encode DivX cards is something new slated for version 4.
Posted at 4:35PM on Jul 27th 2005 by Rakesh