Yahoo! Launches DVR Software
April 26th, 2006
Only last week Yahoo! announced that they had bought the people and the technology behind the Meedio suite of products. Today they’ve launched a free beta version of Yahoo! Go for TV - software that provides media center functionality, including a DVR.
You’ll need a pretty well specced PC to make the most of Yahoo! Go for TV. The listed requirements are:
* Windows XP (Yahoo! Go for TV is not compatible with Macintosh or Linux)
* 1 GHz CPU
* 512 MB RAM
* 40 MB free disk space for installation
* 20 GB additional disk space for TV recordings
Some would say that 20GB of disc space is the bare minimum if you have any intention of using the DVR functionality.
Yahoo! also recommend a high speed internet connection, and of course, if you want to use the software on your TV you’ll need the relevant input connection on your telly.
If you want to use the DVR functionality you’ll need a tuner card. Yahoo! claim to only support these cards, although some of those cards are dual tuners, there’s no mention of dual support in the Yahoo! Go information.
* ATI TV Wonder Elite
* ATI HDTV Wonder
* AverMedia UltraTV 1500 MCE
* Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2
* NVidia Dual TVmce
For the complete low-down check out the Yahoo! Go for TV website.
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