A few question for someone that's going to buy

[christiankelly]

I just bought a system for recording TV and got it setup, it’s a 1.6/256/80Gig and I got a ATI Radeon 7500. The software that comes with the ATI sucks, so I started looking around and found this. From all I’ve read it looks great just what I want as far as streaming over the network, being able to remotely set up recording times etc… I just have a couple of questions before I get it

1. Will this work well with the ATI 7500? (In ver 3 will I be able to watch the show live as it’s recording etc.)

2. It seams like with ver 3 you’re going to be pushing the .net thing, will there still be as much or more features as ver 2 as far as TV listings and setting up record jobs etc? And other then recording all of your favorite show with one click what other advantages will it have?

3. If I buy v2 now will I get a free upgrade to v3?

4. With v2 or v3 will I be able to record a show and stream that same show over the network?

5. From what I understand v2 only will capture in windows media formats. Will v3 allow for capturing to MPEG formats of any kind? (One use I need this for is to capture something I want to keep for divxing later)

6. Last one how does the streaming work? Is it a unicast stream or multicast stream? Can more then one person watch over the network?

Thanks for your time

[V_D_O]

1. Will this work well with the ATI 7500? (In ver 3 will I be able to watch the show live as it’s recording etc.)

Yes, it should work even with PVS2. (assuming you're referring to the AIW)

2. It seams like with ver 3 you’re going to be pushing the .net thing, will there still be as much or more features as ver 2 as far as TV listings and setting up record jobs etc? And other then recording all of your favorite show with one click what other advantages will it have?

V3 will have a more integrated TiVo-like service for scheduling recordings (but then again, I've never seen a TiVo), with a web component. It will also have live TV features, e.g. trickplay and live streaming.

3. If I buy v2 now will I get a free upgrade to v3?

Yes, and access to all the beta versions.

4. With v2 or v3 will I be able to record a show and stream that same show over the network?

Yes, that feature is available in PVS2, and in addition, live video streaming will be available in PVS3.

5. From what I understand v2 only will capture in windows media formats. Will v3 allow for capturing to MPEG formats of any kind? (One use I need this for is to capture something I want to keep for divxing later)

V2 can only capture in WMP7 format. V3 will have DivX as well, and (I think) support for WMP8.

6. Last one how does the streaming work? Is it a unicast stream or multicast stream? Can more then one person watch over the network?

If you're referring to recorded video, then as many people as the system can support will be able to watch (with full pause/FF/rew. control for each). I'm not sure about the live stream, though.