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Re: Request for next version of BeyondTV
I don't know if that is correct. Yes PVR's are designed to first record then display, so there is always a "lag" of at least a second or two. However my old ReplayTV (a TIVO like devise) had a "by-pass" switch which would direct the decoded output of the tuner directly to the display device .. so no recording was being done.
The problem may be (only a non-technical guess on my part) that the current PVR tuner cards have firmware that only displays the tuner's signal after it's been converted to what-ever the on-card firmware is designed to use naively.
Maybe a software decoded TV Tuner card, like the older ATI All In Wonder cards, might be able to display the tuner output without being encoded first since those cards use software encoding only. I have one, and I've never looked into that. Might be something to investigate.
Anyway, I think it would be impossible to "bypass" the on-card internal encoding being done on the hardware based tuner cards like the PVR-x50s and others.
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Rich A
BTV Beta Tester. 4.x.x
XP-PRO, Dual rack mount chassis. Gigabyte MA770-UD3 Nvidia 9500 video, 4 GB Ram, Athlon 64 x2 5600, 80 GB Op Sys/Program drive. 80 GB temp/swap file drive. 500 gb temp recording drive, 3 x 250 GB show storage drives. Samsung DVD burner. VGA video out to projector. TV-out to A/V whole house distribution. HDHR, PVR350, HVR1600, HVR1250, HVR-950, Harmony Remote.
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