SnapStream Beyond TV
SnapStream's Beyond TV software lets you convert your Windows PC into a Personal Video Recorder enabling it to perform functions like the popular TiVo set-top box. SnapStream Beyond TV lets you watch live TV, pause live TV, and record programs (including season pass-like functionality). Beyond TV doesn't charge you any subscription fees and entitles you to lifetime access to its program guide. Some of the more powerful and unique functions that Beyond TV sports are SmartSkip (the ability to automatically detect scene changes, including commercials, and then quickly jump between them) and ShowSqueeze (the ability to automatically compress your TV recordings to other formats and profiles -- for example, you could ShowSqueeze recordings to Windows Media and then watch those recordings on a Pocket PC handheld).
Bill Gates showcased the product (when it was known at Personal Video Station) in his keynote at the Windows XP Launch in October of 2001. More recently, Beyond TV has received a number of industry awards including PC Magazine's Editor's Choice award (April 2004) and PC Magazine's Product of the Year award (December 2004).
Beyond TV is designed to work side by side with other SnapStream products including the SnapStream Firefly PC Remote and the SnapStream Beyond Media software package.