Jason Dunn
11-11-2004, 04:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://forums.snapstream.com/vb/showthread.php?t=17222' target='_blank'>http://forums.snapstream.com/vb/showthread.php?t=17222</a><br /><br /></div>The Beyond Media 1.0 feature list has been posted to the SnapStream forum, and it's looking good (<a href="http://forums.snapstream.com/vb/showthread.php?p=119161">check out some skins</a>). Beyond Media is kind of like Windows Media Center Edition for the rest of the world who doesn't want to buy a whole new computer just for the media features. Some of the features of Beyond Media 1.0 will include a photo viewer (with panning/zooming during slideshows), a music player supporting MP3 and WMA (they should add OGG support but probably can't), a video player supporting MPEG, AVI, WMV and a few others, DVD playback with a built-in MPEG2 codec (something even MCE 2005 lacks!), a weather plugin, and a few other goodies.<br /><br />If you take Beyond Media 1.0, a compatible TV tuner, and Beyond TV, you have a seriously killer media system on your hands that is on par with a Windows Media Center Edition system - and in some ways better because Beyond TV records straight MPEG files, not the ridiculously locked-down MS-DVR files. :evil: