[opendtv] With 30 tuners and 30 TB of storage, SnapStream makes TiVos look like toys
- From: Monty Solomon <monty@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 02:01:38 -0400
With 30 tuners and 30 TB of storage, SnapStream makes TiVos look like toys
Houston company's monster DVRs power Colbert, The Daily Show, and
other big TV names.
by Lee Hutchinson
Sept 14 2013
Ars Technica
When you're picking out a DVR for your home, there's a pretty short
list of candidates-TiVo has its new 6-tuner DVRs, or you can get
something from your cable provider, or you can roll your own. But
consumer-grade DVRs don't really scale all that well for media
companies that need to record and process lots of TV. When you've got
30 or more channels that you need to be recording simultaneously,
your cable company's DVR isn't really up to snuff anymore and it's
time to call in the big guns.
Houston-based SnapStream makes a line of DVRs that scale to truly
silly sizes-its products are the monster trucks of the DVR world. If
you watch TV at all, you've almost certainly already seen what
SnapStream can do-popular shows like The Colbert Report, The Daily
Show, The Soup, and tons of others are customers, using 30+ channel
DVRs to record dozens and dozens of TV shows simultaneously in order
to integrate clips from those recorded shows into their own.
But SnapStream's boxes do a lot more than simply record TV-they're
actually a home theater PC geek's dream. Because Snapstream works so
closely with media production companies, its DVRs sport functionality
that no consumer set could possibly get away with having. For
example, a SnapStream cluster is just as good at repackaging,
transcoding, and distributing content for re-use as it is for
recording it in the first place-functionality you won't find on a
consumer-grade DVR. The system also gives users the most amazing TV
guide access we've ever laid eyes on, wrapped in a simple and almost
ludicrously fast GUI.
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http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/09/with-30-tuners-and-30-tb-of-storage-snapstream-make-tivos-look-like-toys/
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