Digital Home Thoughts: Beyond TV 3.7 Released

"The biggest splash item in Beyond TV 3.7 is the new support for Plextor’s TV402U/MV402U and support for integrated audio in ATI’s newer boards/drivers. First, to speak to the Plextor boards, they may not be the smallest USB boards out there, but they make up for the extra size with a sleek form factor. And, they have onboard hardware encoding to DivX which Beyond TV 3.7 not only supports but also timeshifts (even live TV). Trust me, that was a lot of work, but the result is very cool. ATI seems to be going the route of integrated audio on their new AIW boards and drivers. Beyond TV 3.7 now fully supports these new AIW products. I checked out the X600 on one of our PCI Express machines with Beyond TV 3.7 and was very impressed with the picture quality."



The release notes for the new version are here and it looks like that have added numerous new features. So what's new? Most exciting appears to be the fact that Beyond TV 3.7 now offers support for DivX recording mode with Plextor PX-TV402U and PXM402U TV tuner cards. Also, the trial version of Beyond TV Link, Beyond TV’s network client, works with the trial version of Beyond TV, and an improved Setup Wizard allows users to specify where to store their recordings.