Digital Home Thoughts: SnapStream Media Launches Beyond TV 4.3, DivX 6.1 Support

"Houston, June 8, 2006- SnapStream Media, Inc., a leader in digital home entertainment products, announced today the release of Beyond TV 4.3. Beyond TV 4.3 builds on the success of SnapStream’s award-winning digital video recording (DVR) software, and features added support for DivX 6.1 with Intel Optimizations, the ATI Theater 650 TV tuner card, enhanced HDTV support and Beyond TV Buzz... "Beyond TV 4.3 advances our goal of making the PC DVR experience easier than ever while at the same time delivering a great deal of power to the consumer," said Rakesh Agrawal, CEO and president of SnapStream Media. "There’s never been a better time to build your own DVR." "Digital Home PC enthusiasts will appreciate the exceptional performance and value from the combined solution of ATI's Theater 650 chipsets on TV tuner cards matched with SnapStream's Beyond TV 4.3," said Paul Lypaczewski, Senior Vice President Marketing and General Manager, Desktop, ATI Technologies Inc. "Both ATI and SnapStream are dedicated to offering consumers increased video quality for PCs. Home theater PC users will enjoy exceptional digital TV performance plus ease of use."



Beyond TV is by far my favorite PVR program. With this new release, they introduce a slew of new features, including enhanced HDTV support and better disk handling (an important thing when dealing with 1GB+ avi files). Also new with this release is support for DivX 6.1, which among other snazzy things, finally incorporates Hyperthreading, Dual CPU and Dual Core support, which will dramatically reduce encoding times. You can read up on that press release here.