TiVo for Your PC

Like the TiVo? Sure, you do. Why not turn your PC into one? Nero has the solution and it’s coming soon.

Starting in mid-October, however, people can turn their Windows PCs into a full-on TiVo DVR thanks to Nero’s new Liquid TV package. The software effectively turns a standard PC into a full-service TiVo DVR, replete with the same interface, program guide, and ease-of-use as TiVo’s standalone hardware DVRs–but with the added ability to burn recorded shows to DVD or export them to portable devices such as the iPod or PlayStation Portable.

Specs and Features

$200 Version

• Standard TiVo remote, USB DTV tuner/antenna (for over-the-air analog and digital TV, including HD broadcasts)
• IR blaster (for controlling external cable and satellite boxes, which would then be fed into a video capture card on your PC).
• Everything on the software only version
• year’s worth of the all-important TiVo service

$100 Version (software only)

• support up to four TV tuners
• year’s worth of the all-important TiVo service

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