SnapStream unveils ten-channel DVR
Don Day December 10th, 2007
The new SnapStream Television Search Appliance allows users to record a whopping ten channels at one time - with up to 2,300 hours of storage and 1.5 TB of storage. As Tim Allen used to say “Arrh! Arrh! Arrh!” The professional grade DVR also has another killer app. It stores all the closed captioning from the programs as meta-data, and allows user to search it. You can even get an e-mail alert when a flagged term shows up - and burn the clip to a DVD. It’s only $15,000 and needs a rack mount - but how many years will it be before this type of technology is in the living room? Not many.
Also: Washington State University students in Spokane are being offered a discount-rate TiVo for $125 (via PVR Blog)
And: TiVo’s Series Four boxes will offer two-way communications with cable providers, allowing for VOD download and more.
17 Comments Add your own
1. Anonymous | December 10th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
I remember when networks sued a cable operator for basically TiVo’ing every channel and allowing subscribers to watch everything on TiVo. Now it looks like it’s going to happen anyway, just less efficiently than with a central server.
2. Cory | December 10th, 2007 at 11:08 pm
This is VERY cool.
3. echy | December 11th, 2007 at 6:11 am
There aren’t that many times when there are two things I want to record simultaneously let alone ten.
4. Z | December 11th, 2007 at 6:12 am
I’m amused that they’re calling it an appliance. I’m sure it is, technically, but I can’t put this in the same category as my oven.
5. Hussman | December 11th, 2007 at 6:56 am
Men with small penises just got very excited… not that anyone would notice.
6. Alyssa | December 11th, 2007 at 8:12 am
I lust after this.
It’ll solve the problem of whose shows get recorded and whose get bumped.
7. Rob | December 11th, 2007 at 8:55 am
Washington State University students in Pullman.
8. Mark Mascolino | December 11th, 2007 at 8:57 am
Z..the “appliance” moniker is standard industry jargon for whenever they sell you a purpose built piece of computer hardware and software that comes pre-configured to do some work i.e. you just plug it in and it works….just like an oven.
Oh and yes, it would be awesome to have one of these.
9. Cory | December 11th, 2007 at 9:13 am
What’s cool about this is you can set it to record your favorite channels non-stop, and then choose later what you want to watch on demand. So it basically turns your cable system into a 100% on demand platform with built-in alerts so you don’t have to wade through it all.
10. JoeMo | December 11th, 2007 at 9:35 am
Nothing special here, it’s all been done before and you could do the exact same thing for half the price and a little bit of know-how. Oooh, cc searching, that’s never been done before(sarcasm). Oooh, 10 tuners, I have three HDTV tuners and 2 SDTV tuners in my box already so 10 isn’t a big deal.
11. Brink | December 11th, 2007 at 10:13 am
Look around this site a bit and you’ll find more than one story saying people aren’t watching much TV anymore, what with all this Internets thingy nowadays.
So why the excitement?
12. Anonymous | December 11th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
I would probably set it to record cable news 24/7, so that I can skip through all the crap I don’t care about and get to the latest campaign news. A sports nut could record all the sports channels. I might record Current and skip all the pods that don’t interest me.
I would still prefer the system where the cable operator records everything and I just retrieve anything I want at my leisure.
13. Don | December 11th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
1.5 TB of storage…
It would take my wife at least a couple of weeks to fill that up with The View, Oprah and every Entertainment/Fashion show she records.
I have to keep reminding her - buying the DVR was MY IDEA!
14. Don Day | December 11th, 2007 at 4:13 pm
My parents have that problem, Don. I bought them a TiVo a few years ago - and my dad can’t get a gigabyte in edgewise… it’s full of soaps, Lifetime movies and I Dream of Jeanie.
15. Gorman | December 11th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
It’s the perfect gift for the new parent you know, who will never watch anything live for the next two years.
16. Nick | December 11th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
That must be 2,300 hrs of SD programming. I have 1.5TB of storage, 5 OTA HD Tuners and BeyondTV only reports that I have 164 Hrs of recording.
17. dbrone | December 13th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
buy tivo stock
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