Microsoft recognized that with a decent TV tuner card, the PC could be a great PVR. It could do anything TiVo does, plus run Windows applications, and would make quite a good DVD player, music jukebox, and photo viewer. Though Windows Media Center Edition started off on rocky footing, the 2005 edition made a whole host of improvements, and more will come in the next month with the massive "Rollup 2" patch.
Let's say you don't have Media Center Edition and don't want to wipe your drive and install it. You have Windows XP and simply want to add a TV tuner card and PVR type functions so you can hook your PC to your TV or sit across the room from your large monitor and enjoy all the benefits of TiVo. There are quite a few programs available that let you do that; we'll examine three of them today, including SnapStream's Beyond TV, Cyberlink's PowerCinema, and SageTV.
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