Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

Platform : Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows ME

Type:

Manufacturer: Home Media Networks Ltd

Size: 10Mb

Rating: 4

Verdict: A great antivirus and antispyware program at no cost

System Requirements:
Pentium II 450Mhz, 64Mb Ram, 300Mb hard disk space, DirectX Compatible Soundcard, DirectX 8.0 Runtime, Windows Media Player 7.0 or later if you want to play MP3 music files and recompress video files, DVD drive and DirectShow compatible DVD playing software if you want to play DVDs, one of the following video capture cards: Matrox Marvel G400, ATI All in Wonder, ATI All in Wonder Pro, ATI All In Wonder 128, ATI All In Wonder 128 Pro, ATI All In Wonder Radeon, Hauppauge WinTV, Hauppauge WinTV Go,

Watching TV on a PC is becoming much more popular, partly due to the reduction in the cost of TV capture cards, which you need for it to be possible, and the introduction of software such as ShowShifter.

Designed as an all-in-one media device, ShowShifter allows you to watch and record TV (TiVo style), and play back video files, DVDs and MP3s. All video formats supported by Windows Media player can be played in ShowShifter.

Television can be watched either within the ShowShifter interface or in full-screen mode, but the quality will drop as the window gets bigger. As mentioned, it can be used to play audio files, such as MP3s etc, but it is a little cumbersome for this.

Like similar programs such as SnapStream Personal Video Station, you will need a lot of free hard drive space to record TV, although once recorded it can be burnt onto CD for storage.