ChrisTV PVR (Personal Video Recorder) brings TV on your PC with high quality image and sound. The software is designed to control analog TV Cards, Graphic Cards with Video Input (VIVO),Webcams, TV Cards with MPEG hardware encoder: Hauppauge PVR series, Leadtek PVR2000, ATI Ehome wonder and works with many video capture devices. Features include: Multituner support, TimeShifting, support for Windows Vista, AVI and MPEG2 recording, advanced recording settings, advanced scheduler, recording profiles, radio FM support, channel autoscan with fine tuning, support for DScaler deinterlace filter and FFDShow filter. With the trial edition, recordings from TitanTV listings limit themselves to 45 minutes.
The Lite version is free for non-commercial use.
Reviewing 5.64 (May 8, 2012)
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Reviewing 5.30 (Mar 7, 2009)
Chris TV contains Trojan Horse relevantknowledge. It installs anyhow, It does not uninstall. It starts a local proxy to monitor and redirect your internet traffic. It may do more evil things. It restarts automatically whenever you kill the process. I hope renaming the c:\Program Files\RelevantKnowledge directory will get rid of it.
Reviewing 5.30 (Feb 26, 2009)
The photo above is not ChrisTV Lite. The Lite version doesn't have a control panel. Settings are made from a context menu (right click) on the screen. After testing ChrisTV PVR I was quite surprised at the extent to which the Lite version has been crippled. I believe the Lite version of this program is intended only as a "come on" for you to buy one of the pay versions since it has been so extensively stripped of features.
Feature wise, the KM Player and PVR are in the same ball park except for the cost. The downside is the KM Player doesn't have a TV setup wizard so it *will* take more effort to configure properly, but you *will* save $45 euro.
ADDENDUM: I forgot to mention keyboard shortcuts are available for the common functions in addition to the context menu, but changing channels using the keyboard is frustrating. Active channels are placed consecutively in a list starting with number 1 and that is the number you enter, not the TV channel number. Since not all channels are active, the numbers won't agree. To watch channel 95 I have to type in 57. (I believe this is true of all ChrisTV versions.)
ADDENDUM 2: Even after declining to install the Relevant Knowledge spyware, immediately after installation the rkverify.exe process was running in memory. After rebooting and restarting ChrisTV, the process was gone and the file could not located on the computer. I did, however, find it inside of the ChrisTV installation file in the RK folder. I seriously question why this file was running, if only one time, since RK was declined during installation. This would explain why some people are getting AV alerts when installing ChrisTV Lite.
One final complaint: a "nag" line is annoyingly displayed across the top of the screen each time the program is started and remains there until the channel is changed.
My rating of ChrisTV Lite is 0 stars.
Reviewing 5.30 (Feb 16, 2009)
Well that didn't go well.
First it said I would have to update to a paid version because it did not have support for my TV Card with MPEG Hardware Uncoder (Hauppauger 150 card) then I got a screen from my Antivirus saying it was trying to install a Trojan, then it locked up. I also found it had installed a program called RelevantKnowledge, you can opt out but it's real easy to miss.
I tried it on another computer. This time it installed, but I never could get a proper image. It had bands at the corner and bottom and I could not get the interface to show like it does in the picture (perhaps you have to pay for that?).
Two systems, 3 TV cards. no luck. It may be me, but it's not worth my time any longer.
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