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Late last week, began shipping a small update to Beyond TV… version 4.6.1. Here’s what’s new, from the release notes:

Bug Fixes

- Recordings failing due to, “Could not attach to graph” error are no longer failing.
- Setup wizard now detects sound devices for software encode TV tuner cards.
- TV format settings now correctly being saved as NTSC or PAL in the Web Admin.
- AVerMedia M780 PCI express TV tuner now capable of using both of its onboard tuners simultaneously.
- Serial tuning satellite and set-top-boxes on COM ports higher than 9 can now be done.
- Meta-data no longer lost when copying video files.
- Manual recordings no longer being ended prematurely when the Beyond TV recording scheduler is rebuilt.
- Manual recordings made within the Beyond TV GUI are now being scheduled on the correct channel in cases where duplicate channels exist in a person’s lineup.

Improvements

- Library monitoring and performance improved.
- HDHomeRun (ATSC and QAM support) now supported.
- Serial tuning for DirecTV D11 Model 500 now supported.

The most significant feature in this release is support for unencrypted QAM… What is unencrypted QAM and what does it mean that Beyond TV supports it now?

I’ll elaborate in another blog posting, but in short, it means you can watch and record some of the channels on your cable connection in their pure digital form and, depending on the channel and programming, in high-definition as well. Getting this working does require some specific hardware and to get everything setup, but if this survey is any indication, this won’t deter many of you. Enjoy!

Existing Beyond TV 4 users: Get your free update to Beyond TV 4.6.1

For everyone else, download the free 21-day trial

(and if you’ve tried Beyond TV or the DVD Burning Plug-in before, you’ll get a new 21-day trial period with Beyond TV 4.6.1)

This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 10th, 2007 at 9:16 am by Rakesh and is filed under Beyond TV, Company News, HDTV. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.