Get advice on what to buy to setup Beyond TV
September 26th, 2006 at 9:52 am by Rakesh
One of the on-going battles in the PC PVR business is making it as easy as possible for people to get up and running with our product. We’ve seen it time and time again — once people have Beyond TV running, they love it. But getting people to that point is never as easy as we’d like (case in point: the forum that gets the most traffic on forums.snapstream.com is the Beyond TV Support forum). People have to figure out how Beyond TV works with their TV source, then figure out what hardware they need (since most PCs don’t come with a TV tuner card by default… at least, not yet) and then figure out how to set it all up.
Last week, we published a tool on our website which hopefully makes part of this process easier — the Beyond TV Wizard will ask you a series of questions (what country are in? do you want to use Beyond TV on a laptop or a desktop? etc) and then give you a personalized hardware recommendations.
This is a new tool and it’s somewhat experimental — please try it out and give us your feedback.
October 12th, 2006 at 9:19 am
just a suggestion, you might want to include system specs into the wizard so people know the tuner/software will function properly when they get it.
October 13th, 2006 at 10:41 am
jkirk, thanks for the tip! we’re working on adding the system requirements into the next version.