Comments on: Beyond TV 4 eye candy

By: dffd

dffd — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 16:18:10 +0000

i will not upgrade becuase when i got the program they said there will be free upgrades for life… now if they dont want to do this for new buyers thats fine but i was told free upgades… so goodbye… and there are lots of other people doing pvr software now so its not like im going to have a problem finding a diffent and better app…

By: BradFitz

BradFitz — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 01:20:47 +0000

“Showsqueeze will allow you to convert the videos to any resolution in wmv and divx formats.”

Can someone explain how to do this, I can’t figure out how to change the resolution anywhere in the trial version of BTV 4.

Thanks!

By: Tom Smith of Tampa

Tom Smith of Tampa — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 05:24:06 +0000

I can not download Eather… I try to upgrade my pc or download the trial version and the download opens and hangs open not downloading anything… Very very frustrating!

By: JJ CANOT DOWNLOAD

JJ CANOT DOWNLOAD — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 05:45:16 +0000

I CAN NOT DOWNLOAD THE DARN PRODUCT?????

By: Corey

Corey — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 04:09:15 +0000

Showsqueeze will allow you to convert the videos to any resolution in wmv and divx formats. Ipod does not support these formats though. Some people confuse divx and mpeg-4. They are similar, but not exactly the same and require different codecs to encode and play in those formats. To convert videos to work on ipod you would need to purchase Quicktime Pro from Apple. See their website for more info on the software. These are the formats ipod supports:

H.264 video
File formats: .m4v, .mp4 and .mov
Video: Up to 768 Kbps, 320 x 240 pixels, 30 frames per second,
Baseline Profile up to Level 1.3
Audio: AAC-LC up to 160 Kbps, 48 KHz, stereo audio
MPEG-4 video
File formats: .m4v, .mp4 and .mov
Video: Up to 2.5 Mbps, 480 x 480 pixels, 30 frames per second,
Simple Profile
Audio: AAC-LC up to 160 Kbps, 48 KHz, stereo audio

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 15:54:06 +0000

How about adding a feature that automatically downsizes the file to the 320×240 (or whatever is the default file size for the new apple video playing ipod) just like you do for smartskipping (determining the commercial locations). If this would run after the taping, it would help alot. You will probably get a few new users with this feature!

also, how come we still don’t have anything resolved with closed captions? my comcast digital tuner box has closed captions for 6 months already and i don’t. I need the CC for watching the stuff late at night when the fam is asleep.

also, can you fix the beyondmedia so that it recognizes the additional DVD codecs? I can’t use this program at all and i paid $50+ for it!.

thanks.

By: G

Sun, 30 Oct 2005 15:59:09 +0000

You missed my point Eric. $29.99 is half of what I paid for BTV3, so it is quite significant too, but my point is that except for the hdtv feature I do not see (that’s just based on what I have read and seen here, I have not seen he product itself, so correct me if I am wrong) anything worth to charge upgrade for. I do not have a good HDTV reception here, the cable or dish HDTV is not supported (due to the lack of cards I believe), so that 30$ upgrade for me is just a bug fix for BTV3. Tthe way I see it, I don’t think I should be charged for that. On the other hand if BTV3 is going to be maintained after release of BTV4 I would gladly stay with it. I think it would be fair to release BTV4 without HD support for free and charge for BTV4 HDTV version upgrade, because that is a significant upgrade (and I may indeed get it later when HDTV is available here, or I may wait for BTV5 or BTV6 which would support cable HDTV).

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 12:41:16 +0000

G, “the upgrade fee” is “quite hefty too”??? All I can say is that you are nuts dude! Talk about trolls! $29.99 is nothing as far as upgrade goes.

By: G

Sun, 30 Oct 2005 04:54:36 +0000

I’ve been using BTV3 for a little while now and I like it a lot. Great software! I am still not sure why is BTV4 being so glorified though. I’m afraid that I am on Brendan’s side, and I don’t think that we, who have bought this software should pay the upgrade fee (quite hefty too). Of course I may not know all the ins and outs so forgive me if I am wrong here. Some of you have compared this software to ms windows, for example, and how they also charge for the upgrade. Don’t forget that they actually support and release updates for their older windows versions for quite a while after the new version comes out. So my question is: is BTV3 going to be maintained, supported and bugs fixed for at least few years? Most of us, for example, don’t have a need for HDTV yet, especially since there are no HDTV tuner cards for cable and satellite, so is it fair for us to pay for the upgrades or bug fixes if we do not need the new features like HDTV, or radio support?

By: Ken

Ken — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 02:07:13 +0000

I agree that BTV4 doesn’t target it’s new features at me since I have no substantial HD options here except a sporadic ABC station and fox OTA – however, even though that may keep me from buying an upgrade immediately, Snapstream has always impressed me with their advances in intermediate versions (like 3.4/3.5 so I expect to as soon as I can jsutify it.

Brendan, you aren’t giving fair credit to how commercial software works. Remember – it was *Unusual* when some of Snapstream’s earlier upgrades proceeded at no cost…