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Personal video recorder application for Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac and Docker. Supports a wide variety of devices, and a good set of features. Free for personal use. Commercial use requires a license. SageTV: Yes [d] Yes Yes No Yes (client only) Free (was US$79.95/server, US$29.95/client) GPL (was Proprietary) 9.2.2 May 16, 2020 Java based.
Digital TV recorder Freesat+ is a consumer brand introduced to raise consumer awareness and promote sales of Freesat -capable digital TV recorders, otherwise known as personal video recorders . Freesat+ affords users similar features that are available with competitor services such as Sky+ and Freeview+ .
The first set-top boxes were made by Bush, Goodmans and Grundig (the Alba Group) and also by Humax. [59] As of July 2010, there were eleven companies licensed to produce Freesat boxes and televisions. [60] Humax launched a Freesat recorder, Freesat+, which became available to the public in November 2008. [61]
On HD boxes, HD channels are generally given precedence over the SD counterpart (though this does not apply in all regions of the UK in some cases). For this article, it is assumed that the subscriber has a Sky+ HD or Sky Q box but does not subscribe to the HD pack.
A Viewsat Xtreme FTA receiver. A free-to-air or FTA Receiver is a satellite television receiver designed to receive unencrypted broadcasts. Modern decoders are typically compliant with the MPEG-4/DVB-S2 standard and formerly the MPEG-2/DVB-S standard, while older FTA receivers relied on analog satellite transmissions which have declined rapidly in recent years.
Hopper is a line of digital video recording (DVR) set-top boxes offered by the U.S. direct-broadcast satellite television provider Dish Network. First introduced at Consumer Electronics Show in January 2012, the Hopper was released in March 2012 as a component of the provider's whole-home DVR system, which networks the main Hopper unit with ...
On 16 March 2011, Sky launched the Sky HD box, primarily targeted at multiroom subscribers. [5] and also used for Freesat from Sky installations. The Sky HD box is not a personal video recorder, meaning it has no hard disk and cannot support the Sky+ functionality. These were later replaced with Sky+HD boxes, which had both sets of functionality.
The set-top box selects the channel desired by the user by filtering that channel from the multiple channels received from the satellite, converts the signal to a lower intermediate frequency, decrypts the encrypted signal, demodulates the radio signal and sends the resulting video signal to the television through a cable. [22]