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What would having SageTV and SageRecorderPVR software installed on a PC enable someone to do?
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Having SageTV and SageRecorder PVR software installed on a PC would enable someone to both watch TV on their computer and record programs. One needs a TV tuner card in their computer to be able to use it.
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When was SageTV created?
SageTV was created in 2002.
How to Impress People At Dinner Parties With Your Knowledge Of Digital Video Recording?
Digital video recorders (DVR) record digital-format video to a disk or other memory storage device. The term covers personal computers offering video capture and playback to and from a disc. Televisions with built-in DVR hard- and software have been available since LG introduced such a product in 2007. A camcorder brings a camera and DVR together. Mobile 'phones currently often possess a camera with digital video recording capacity.Two of the earliest consumer DVRs, ReplayTV and TiVo, where launched under the auspices of the 1998 Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas. Microsoft's offering came at the end of 1999.TiVo delivered their first units on March 31, 1999. Ever since, the last Friday in March has been celebrated as a company holiday called Blue Moon.While ReplayTV won the “Best of Show” prize in Las Vegas in 1999, TiVo sold better.Litigation by media providers forced ReplayTV to take away many features like automatic commercial skip and Internet recording-sharing, but this ground has been gradually recovered by manufacturers, and then some. Now DVR devices can record to DVD and have connectivity to networked PCs and web browsers.Hard disk DVRs make “time-shift” TV viewing much more convenient, supplanting the VCR. Many other tricks can be carried out, e.g. pausing, instant scene-replay, advertising skipping and chasing playback, where a recording can be viewed before it's even complete.Some of the more popular free DVR applications for Windows are GB-PVR, MediaPortal and Orb. Proprietary applications include CyberLink, SageTV and Beyond TV. Meedio was bought and discontinued by Yahoo.DVR has put the future of television advertising in doubt because pre-recorded programs can be viewed without advertisements. The feature has been controversial for a decade, and major TV networks and movie studios claim violation of copyright and say this facility should be banned. As a result, we will increasingly see advertising within programs, “banners” taking up as much as 25% of the bottom of the picture, known in media circles as “secondary events” (2E). In this way, the impact of DVR upon your lifestyle will make itself felt very soon.
How can you watch downloaded films on your tv?
There are a number of ways to watch downloaded movies on your TV. All these methods are dependent on the method by which you downloaded them and the equipment you have available.For example, if you downloaded the movie using iTunes, then your methods by which to see the movie are pretty limited, but entirely doable. If you downloaded them in a fashion that gave it to you in MPEG format, there are more options.Software:If you have an iTunes video, iTunes does not (yet) let you burn it to DVD. You must watch it using iTunes or on a iPod. If you wish to watch it on iTunes then skip to the hardware section. All Apple iPods and iPhones are capable of letting you see the videos on a TV, you just have to buy a cable for it. So you can download the video to you iphone and plug you iphone into your TV.Other video players work similarly. If you have a video player form another company, you can download the MPEG to that player and hook it up to your TV.Finally, if you have software like nero, you can transform your MPEG or AVI video that you downloaded into a format that is readable by DVD players and burn a DVD on your computer. Then to see your video you can just insert the DVD into your player to watch it.HARDWARE:If your idea is that you want to hook up your TV to your computer, this is of course possible also. but you will need a video card that has a TV out connector. This TV out connector may have a CoAxial connector, S-Video connector or the newer DVI connector. Some cards may still have RCA connectors on it, but I have not seen that in a while.Then, you need to be sure your TV has a similar connector for the video signal. Some TVs even have a VGA input, so you can just buy a plain old normal video card for it. Most TVs have an S-video connector, only newer TVs have a DVI connector.Once you have set up your video card (or second video card) to be able to display to both your normal monitor and your TV. Then you can simply drag the player window over to the TV to watch the video. You can now use iTunes, powerDVD, nero or anything to watch your video with, on your TV.I hope this has been helpful, at least as a start. It took me a while to get it set up so that it works nicely. I use SageTV as the player, which has a nice remote control (it also, makes a TiVo out of your computer if you have a tuner card).While I have your attention: Pay for your movies.I don't work at any of the broadcast companies or movie houses, but when you illegally download movies, my costs for buying legally downloaded ones go up. Movies are cheap enough to just buy. Netflix and blockbuster are cheap enough to see as many movies as you want whenever you want. The only reason to download movies illegally these days is because you are an idiot. I hope you are not an idiot.
Who is owner of google.com?
Chairman and CEO: Eric E. Schmidt Director; President, Technology: Sergey Brin SVP Business Operations: Shona L. Brown Google is operating in California Google Inc.* owns Google as a whole... But the specific person isn't applicable since Google is a publicly traded company with stockholders sharing ownership. Founders of Google are Sergey M. Brit and Lawrence "Larry" E. Page. *Google Inc. is officially an offspring of Alphabet Inc.
