Personal Computer World

Cyberlink PowerCinema 5

Trial Software
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Turns your PC into a complete home entertainment center. TV: watch digital or analog TV; schedule the recording of TV programs, or forward and rewind live with time-shift recording. Movies: play DVDs via the award-winning PowerDVD decoding engine, with superb graphics and support for home theater sound systems.

Requires: Windows XP or Vista

ProgDVB 5

Free for non-commercial use
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Watch SAT-Television and listen to Radio channels directly from satellite by using DVB-PCI cards with hardware decoders on the board, SAT-dish, and personal x86-compatible computers. Options for working with network broadcasting and AV recording.

Requires: Windows 2000, XP or Vista

TSReader Lite 2.7.45

Freeware

Transport stream analyzer, decoder, recorder and stream manipulator for MPEG-2 systems. It supports DVB, ATSC and Digicipher« II extensions to the base MPEG-2 specification. TSReader gives the user the "big picture" overview of what's being carried inside MPEG-2 transport streams.

Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me or XP

GB-PVR 0.9912

Freeware

Fully featured home media center application, allowing you to easily use a remote to watch tv, schedule recordings, watch videos, watch DVDs, listen to music, view photos etc. You're not stuck with closed standards using GB-PVR to browse your digital media.

Requires: Windows 2000, XP or Vista

S3Drive 0.5

Trial Software
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The Amazon SE space has unlimited amount of data space available, is reliable and inexpensive. S3Drive is working like a local network drive, you are familiar at once. The drive can be accessed with all applications and is compatible with all backup solutions.

Requires: Windows 2000, XP & Amazon S3 account

VLC 0.8.6

Trial Software
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Highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me or XP