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System Requirements
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| Note: Other software components are also required in order to run Beyond TV. If an Internet connection is present during installation, these components will be downloaded and installed automatically.
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| · | Windows 2000/XP or Windows Vista
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| · | DirectX 9.0c
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| · | Windows Media Player 9
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| · | Software Encoding Tuner Card - Pentium 4, Celeron or AMD Athlon 1.5 GHz and above*
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| · | Hardware Encoding Tuner Card - Pentium, Celeron or AMD Athlon 700 MHz and above**
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| · | 256 MB RAM
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| · | Video Card: 16 MB RAM, 3D Acceleration, DirectX 9.0 Compatible
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| · | 15 GB Hard Drive***
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| · | TV tuner card (PCI, USB, AGP) with WDM (Windows Driver Model) driver support
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| · | Internet access (Broadband connection preferable)
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| * Intel Pentium 4 family or AMD Athlon family processor
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| ** Intel Pentium, Celeron, or AMD Athlon family processor
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| *** In systems that use 3 or more tuners, recording capacity is limited by the speed of the hard drive and available bandwidth. In order to utilize additional tuners, the system may need additional hard drives that are faster or configured in RAID mode. The more hard drive space, the better the performance will be.
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| · | Windows XP (Home or Pro) with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista
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| · | DirectX 9.0c
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| · | Windows Media Player 9
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| · | 1.7 GHz or above Intel or AMD processor*
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| · | 512MB Ram
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| · | Video Card: ATI Radeon 9550 or NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 or above video card (Failure to use a proper video card will result in a choppy picture.)
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| · | HDTV tuner card (PCI, USB, AGP) with WDM (Windows Driver Model) driver support and BDA compliance
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| · | Sufficient free hard drive space.
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| A typical HD show is about 9 GB for one hour of TV, using up to 8 times as much space than traditional MPEG-2. For normal usage, 200 GB of free space is a practical minimum. The following chart shows the approximate amount of hard drive space needed depending on recording times:
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| * Intel Pentium 4 family or AMD Athlon family processor
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