Archive for December, 2006

Couple o’ new t-shirts in the SnapStream merchandise store

Friday, December 15th, 2006 at 5:39 pm by Rakesh

We have a couple of fun new t-shirt designs over in the SnapStream Merchandise Store, all courtesy of our very talented designer Joel:


“DRM Doesn’t Restrict Me”


“I’m Hot… for the Beyond TV DVD Burning Plug-in”


“Hi, I’m a talking fish”

See “Beyond TV” on TV tonight

Saturday, December 9th, 2006 at 6:50 pm by Rakesh

I just heard about this: you can tune into the Fine Living Channel tonight at 7pm or 10pm (central time) and see SnapStream’s Beyond TV featured on Tech Check. And if you miss it tonight, you can catch it later this month because I understand they’ll be re-playing it at least once before Christmas. P.S. I’m also working on a getting a copy that I can share with everyone here online.

Multiple nVidia DualTV MCEs in a single PC: now supported in Beyond TV

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006 at 6:47 pm by Rakesh

nVidia DualTV MCESince nVidia released their DualTV MCE earlier this year, we’ve wished they had drivers to support putting more than one of these cards in a single PC. After all, who doesn’t want to build their very own Godzilla DVR?

Well, just in time for Christmas, after lots of testing and with nVidia’s permission, we’ve released a pre-release version of nVidia’s DualTV MCE drivers (version 5.9.5.23) that make this possible. Note these drivers are only validated to work with Beyond TV.

Here’s an 8 tuner box that we built with the new drivers and nVidia’s DualTV MCEs:

Multiple DualTV MCE Beyond TV Server, image1

Multiple DualTV MCE Beyond TV Server, image2

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Multiple DualTV MCE Beyond TV Server, image4

So you can confidently buy the newly added Beyond TV - nVidia DualTV MCE bundle from the SnapStream Store with the knowledge that you can now expand well beyond two tuners.

UPDATED (12/7/2006): I updated the post to clarify that the drivers were not written by SnapStream, but by nVidia. We’ve simply been testing them and got permission from nVidia to release them before their public release.