Tag archive: PVR

Mac users today have one more gadget to plug into those brand new Power Mac G5s as Hauppauge Digital's Eskape Labs division yesterday announced the new myTV.PVR. This TV related external USB device is available now for $149.99. The myTV.PVR connects to a Mac via USB 2.0, turning the computer into a personal video recorder. It has built in TV tuner and MPEG encoder functions so users can watch live TV in a window or full screen, pause… Read More

The ConvertX PVR model PX-TV402U captures and encodes broadcast, cable, or satellite TV onto a computer hard drive. Users can watch, pause, and record live TV, or use an integrated electronic programming guide to schedule recordings with a single mouse click. In addition to encoding programs, movies, and sports events from a TV source, ConvertX also supports capturing home video from such sources as camcorders, DVD players, and VCRs… Read More

Diamond Multimedia has launched a line of Diamond XtremeTV tuner and personal video recorder products, including deluxe kits that make it easy to turn a standard PC into a remote-controlled media center for viewing, pausing, and rewinding live TV, using an integrated program guide to record shows with a single click, and save programs to DVD. With XtremeTV, users can watch TV on their PC or laptop, pause and rewind live TV, use an… Read More

Gary Arlen loves his ReplayTV personal video recorder. “But I bet I haven't plugged it in for more than a year now,” says the Maryland-based president of Arlen Communications. It's not broken. The stand-alone ReplayTV box, which uses a hard drive instead of tape, can still record and store hours of television programming. And, like machines from competitor TiVo, it can pause live television and zip through… Read More