ChrisTV PVR Professional

ChrisTV PVR Professional

Jayesh Limaye, Mar 02, 2008 1334 hrs IST

The ultimate HTPC tool!

Supports most TV tuners, light on system resources, highly tweakable

Codecs not bundled along

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The Interface


The Control Panel


On launching it, you get the rather easy-to-use Control Panel. It happens to be skinnable. Just above the control panel is the preview window, making this thing look like a little TV on your desktop.

Prominent among what we noticed was that while it takes up to 5 seconds to launch, it is downright smooth afterwards, and there is almost no overhead on the system while viewing TV.

ChrisTV Options


The General Settings tab


You can access different settings by right-clicking on the preview window, but most of the settings are available at one common place known as Program Settings. You can set the program priority: if your system is low on resources, you can set this to low so that other programs run better, but you can set this higher if TV viewing is the only activity.


Video Rendering and Improvement Settings


You can view videos in two modes: the commonly-used overlay, or the newer and better VMR9. Only if you happen to have a TV tuner with an MPEG hardware encoder, you can access the settings pertaining to this feature.

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USER COMMENTS

there are better tv tuner programs like ..... 1) Dscaler the ultimate. but a real pain until you master how to use it. 2) Win DVR, only problem is the software has no support as it is stopped now. 3) Cyberlink Power Cinema also this software has stopped support. search for all these on various forums, and you will get numerous results. the above software are very much better than the softwares which are bundled with TV tuner cards.

by sandeep murthy, belgaum, on Nov 01, 2008 07:33 PM, Report abuse   Reply

Great program... horrible support and purchasing system. Be prepared to be ignored!!!

by Kopykatzz, Simcoe, on Jul 27, 2008 08:46 PM, Report abuse   Reply

get this for free at katz.cd

by Enfyx, Freeze City, on Mar 24, 2008 10:01 AM, Report abuse   Reply

good

by sajid, mumbai, on Mar 20, 2008 07:43 PM, Report abuse   Reply

Always crashes on my system - dont know if others have the same issues. Most unstable s/w ever come across..

by suresh, hyd, on Mar 04, 2008 07:46 PM, Report abuse   Reply

What capture device do you use ?

by qadu, mumbai, on Mar 05, 2008 01:17 AM, Report abuse

My Compro has automatic Power-Up function which is very important because I dont want to keep my PC on when I am not at home for my favorite TV show to get recorded. Can I schedule for power-up function on Chris TV?

by Ravi, Mumbai, on Mar 04, 2008 01:05 PM, Report abuse   Reply

Ya...chris Tv is best PVR software I come across, but pricing is bit high. I got a TV tuner card for 850 bucks & software to run it will cost 3000 bucks!!!

by www.techbangalo, bangalore, on Mar 03, 2008 11:56 AM, Report abuse   Reply

Hi, this is fine live cricket iam intrest, pls some futures details thnx

by raju, hyd, on Mar 02, 2008 08:13 PM, Report abuse   Reply

in the calm words of virgin mary can u please rephrase?

by noobkiller, noobard, on Mar 03, 2008 06:38 AM, Report abuse

flip to da last page and u will get da details

by Mayuresh, Vadodara, on Mar 03, 2008 09:44 AM, Report abuse

just use fricking windows media player... much easier to use, more functionality, easily record using scheduling and epg....etc etc.. and plus it looks much better and comes bundled with vista and some xp versions!!!

by Neil, Mumbai, on Mar 03, 2008 12:10 AM, Report abuse   Reply

tried it, but works with only a very limited number of supported TV Tuners, ChrisTV rulez!!!!

by Mayuresh, Vadodara, on Mar 03, 2008 09:43 AM, Report abuse

hey i want to know how do i get to watch tv on my pc from a set top box??

by altamash, mumbai, on Mar 02, 2008 07:50 PM, Report abuse   Reply

Connect the video o/p of set top box to the tuner video i/p.

by perplexed monke, mumbai, on Mar 02, 2008 09:23 PM, Report abuse

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