Get QAM Content with your existing QAM capture cards!

[Stealth1971]

Chicago, IL - January 22, 2007

Venturality, Inc. is publicly releasing its first product in its EVO product line, the EVO-SOFT package.

The EVO-SOFT package quickly enables you to use the HD content from your cable provider within your PVR/HTPC environment. It is comprised of two components, the EVO-SOFT device and the EVO Console Windows software. These two pieces work together to push HD video from your cable provider as captured by your EVO-SOFT device over your home network to your EVO Console installation.

This is THE software solution that uses your existing hardware!!!

If you have a supported QAM card and any spare PC, then WELCOME to hassle free HD from your cable provider.

Checkout www.EVO4TV.com for full details and a trial product download.

Read what some of the beta team members have said during the beta testing:

“The EVO system is a very stable and excellent product! It allows me to get QAM channels integrated into SageTV, and allows me to run as many QAM tuners as I need, utilizing all my previously purchased QAM tuner cards. Since the very first alpha release I have been able to watch and record all my favorite un-encrypted QAM channels in SageTV, without ever having an issue related to the EVO software.” -- Kirby

“Everything worked like clockwork! Nice work on the additions. It’s funny…when testing, you always expect some weird quirk to bug you. I have yet to experience any. Thanks for making my job easy ” -- Insomniac

[wheelrandolph]

Hi,
This really sounds interesting. I didn't know Avermedia A-180's were Qam capable. It lists A-180's in hardware req.---is this right?

Randy

[Stealth1971]

Originally Posted by wheelrandolph

Hi,
This really sounds interesting. I didn't know Avermedia A-180's were Qam capable. It lists A-180's in hardware req.---is this right?

Randy

Yes, the A180 actually has been tested by our beta testers and said to work well.

Tim

[wheelrandolph]

Thanks for the info!

[insomniac]

I run EVO on a p2 300mhz w/o any issues. Who doesnt have one of these laying around!? Heck, you can probably have any IT department donate 10 of them to you if you asked..

Sooo nice to watch HD on my 55" sony

[evilpenguin]

Cool, my a180 is just sitting around collecting dust. Time to put it back to work

Long shot I imagine, but would it be possible to run the EVO server from my XP SageTV server in a virtual machine?

[GTwannabe]

Originally Posted by insomniac

I run EVO on a p2 300mhz w/o any issues. Who doesnt have one of these laying around!? Heck, you can probably have any IT department donate 10 of them to you if you asked..

Sooo nice to watch HD on my 55" sony

How does this compare with the HDHomeRun? Does the SageTV server portion install as a service for headless operation?

Does it give you the option to install the ISO to a hard disk? The only compact junker I have that takes full height PCI cards has a HDD, but no internal CD drive.

[Stealth1971]

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

Cool, my a180 is just sitting around collecting dust. Time to put it back to work

Long shot I imagine, but would it be possible to run the EVO server from my XP SageTV server in a virtual machine?

I wish it would run out of a virtual machine, but virtual machines do not have direct access to the hardware.

[Stealth1971]

Originally Posted by GTwannabe

How does this compare with the HDHomeRun? Does the SageTV server portion install as a service for headless operation?

Does it give you the option to install the ISO to a hard disk? The only compact junker I have that takes full height PCI cards has a HDD, but no internal CD drive.

HDHomeRun vs EVO-SOFT take two different approaches - hardware vs software w/ off-the-shelf hardware. We hope to offer muti-tuner card per PC in the near future - offering 2,3,4 or 5 tuners in one system.

Yes - the "EVO Services" service is installed with the software for headless operation.

We haven't released a hard disk version, but we do have a CompactFlash version that we may be releasing in the near future.

[Wally]

Which DVICO Fusion card does this work with? I have both a FusionHDTV5 RT Lite and a FusionHDTV5 Lite and neither of them seem to work. When I try to do a channel scan nothing happens.

[Stealth1971]

Originally Posted by Wally

Which DVICO Fusion card does this work with? I have both a FusionHDTV5 RT Lite and a FusionHDTV5 Lite and neither of them seem to work. When I try to do a channel scan nothing happens.

FusionHDTV5 Gold PCI is the model currently supported (as far as we have determined). We will determine the Lite version support as soon as we can - I hope we can get you a build quickly.

Were you able to determine if the EVO-SOFT device (PC) found the network and got an IP address?

[Wally]

Stealth1971,

Thanks for the quick reply. Yes, the server got an IP address properly and the EVO-SOFT console found the server and shows it's MAC address. I hope you guy's can get it working with my cards.

Wally

[Kirby]

Wally, I sent you a PM. I think I know what your issue is, so send me your properties file when you get a chance. thanks.

[Kirby]

Originally Posted by Stealth1971

We haven't released a hard disk version, but we do have a CompactFlash version that we may be releasing in the near future.

[bcjenkins]

This is awesome! kinda makes me wish I had cable to play around with it. Is there a mailing list to subscribe to for the ATSC feature?

B

[Stuntman]

Originally Posted by Stealth1971

FusionHDTV5 Gold PCI is the model currently supported (as far as we have determined). We will determine the Lite version support as soon as we can - I hope we can get you a build quickly.

Were you able to determine if the EVO-SOFT device (PC) found the network and got an IP address?

I too have a FusionHDTV5 Lite card sitting around collecting dust as I don't have good enough line of site for OTA reception. It did, via it's own software, pick up numerous HD channels from my cable, but I have not been able to use it with Sage.. until now??

Please advise.

Thanks!!!!!

[Kirby]

Originally Posted by Kirby

Wally, I sent you a PM. I think I know what your issue is, so send me your properties file when you get a chance. thanks.

I really shouldnt post in the morning without coffee in the bloodstream. Its a different issue for Wally.

[insomniac]

Huh? Are you asking to be informed when this can tune ATSC? If so, consider yourself informed

Originally Posted by bcjenkins

This is awesome! kinda makes me wish I had cable to play around with it. Is there a mailing list to subscribe to for the ATSC feature?

B

[bcjenkins]

Under upcoming features on the website:

- Multiple tuners per EVO-SOFT device
- MCE support
- BeyondTV support
- ATSC support
- Open SDK (for the extreme techies)
- and many more!

I assume ATSC support == OTA support? This seems like a much cheaper option than to running a second SageTV server but accomplishing nearly the same thing for me.

B

[Kirby]

Originally Posted by bcjenkins

I assume ATSC support == OTA support?

you assume correctly. I never tried it in testing though.