DVBViewer is proprietary, commercial software for viewing & recording of

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TV & Radio using a

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or box and a Media Center for viewing Music, Video and Pictures. Among its other features are an

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(EPG),

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support,

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and

picture-in-picture Picture-in-picture (PiP) is a feature that can be found in television receivers, personal computers and smartphones, consisting of a video stream playing within an inset window, freeing the rest of the screen for other tasks. For televisions, pic ...

. Besides the support for BDA adapters, there is also the ability to use the

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with DVBViewer. The software also allows

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and usage of CI-Modules with most adapters. The worldwide charge for the application is 15

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or 22 US Dollars. Additional functions such as video on demand, TV series and movie management, home network distribution of TV to network devices including iPod Touch, iPhone & iPad & Android devices (with additional remote control features), and a recording service with web interface are provided by free plugins. A plug-in offering

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and

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support is available for a license fee of 12 euros. DVBViewer was the first windows application with

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support, right after the

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started its transmission via satellite. It also was one of the first alternative applications supporting the

DVB-S2 Digital Video Broadcasting - Satellite - Second Generation (DVB-S2) is a digital television broadcast standard that has been designed as a successor for the popular DVB-S system. It was developed in 2003 by the Digital Video Broadcasting Proje ...

broadcast standard and being compatible to most tuner cards supporting this standard using BDA, a standardized driver interface for digital video capture developed by Microsoft. Therefore, it presented itself as a valuable replacement for the manufacturers bundled software, often only providing fundamental functionality.Jörg Knitter, ''Scharfe Sache – HDTV am PC'', PC Magazin, 10/2006, p. 60. The current version allows the use of Sat>IP on the client- and also on the server side.

Editions

There are three editions of the DVBViewer available, an OEM edition, a commercial one, DVBViewer Pro and an alternative edition, DVBViewer GE, mainly aimed at German speaking customers of the commercial edition. An OEM edition is included with products by various manufacturers: *

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DVBViewer TE & TE2 *

TerraTec TerraTec Electronic GmbH is a German manufacturer of sound cards, computer speakers, webcams, computer mice, video grabbers and TV tuner cards. TerraTec is mainly known for its sound cards, and is the largest German producer of them. The compan ...

DVBViewer Terratec Edition * TechnoTrend TT Viewer *Digital Everywhere * DVBSky * Turbosight *DVBShop *RF Central.

Reviews

A comprehensive review (in German) of the software can be found at DVBMagic, or in English in the UK's best selling computer magazine,

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. DVBViewer is also mentioned in 16 hardware reviews on techradar,

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's UK Tech magazine.

References

External links

Official Website

DVBViewer Wiki
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