Company Profile

SnapStream is a software company based in Houston, Texas focused on building great user experiences through software. We're best known for our Beyond TV PC DVR software and SnapStream Enterprise, our television search appliance.

The company was founded in 2000 and the first version of our PC DVR software, then known as Personal Video Station, was released in early 2001. Later that year, version 2 of SnapStream's PC DVR product was showcased in Bill Gates' keynote address at the Windows XP Launch. Version 3 was launched in May 2003 and Beyond TV 4 began shipping in November 2005.

Over the history of Beyond TV, we have focused on making Beyond TV and PC DVR as easy as possible while being innovative and taking advantage of the latest consumer technologies like home networking, faster CPUs, DVD burners, portable video players and HDTV.

Here are some things that have been said about SnapStream's Beyond TV over the years:

“Beyond TV blows away the competition…Overall, SnapStream remains the leader in television-viewing software.” - Matthew Fordahl, Associated Press, March 2004

“Proving that a PC can rival TiVo.” - Associated Press, March 2004

“The bottom line is that Beyond TV is hands down, the best PVR software we’ve tested for the PC” - Maximum PC, October 2006

 

In February 2007, we released Couchville.com, a website for online TV listings. Couchville's vision was to provide a simple and effective website for information about TV shows. It received widespread praise including positive reviews on TechCrunch and Digg. In early 2008, SnapStream shutdown the Couchville.com website.

And in late 2007, we began shipping SnapStream Enterprise. SnapStream Enterprise is a turn-key television search appliance. It allows organizations to record hundreds and thousands of hours of television and then search inside those recordings by keyword.