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October 15, 2004

Best PVR PC Package?

I'm looking to tape television, and radio (AM and FM) onto my PC and later burn a VCD or DVD of the interviews/shows. I'd also like to be able to capture stills from the video too. What would give me the best quality video and still captures if I'm using a PC.
-- Cyrus

October 15, 2004 in Home Theater PC

Answers

Currently, Microsoft's Windows Media Center Edition is the only PVR package I know that includes radio features by default. Most other PVR/HTPC software focuses more on music playback from local mp3 files, not radio. This page at Micrsoft's site doesn't make it sound like you can schedule recordings though, only pause live radio:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/mediacenter/evaluation/experienceit/mediacenter.mspx

You could also instead use a second program to schedule and record radio streams to MP3, which could get indexed by whatever home theater PC software you want to use.

Posted by: Matt Haughey at Oct 17, 2004 11:27:59 AM

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