What is an "online TV Recorder?"
your „virtually“ Personal-Videorecorder in the internet, some say "your Online Tivo".
A new technique of recording TV Shows and for worldwide remote access to your recordings. You can record 11 shows at the same time!
What do I need?
Only an Internet-Access (Broadband is fine, but not mandatory)
You need NO tv-card, NO tv-capture software, NO TV, NO video-recorder, NO harddisk recorder, NO running power consuming devices, NO costs, NO collisions of parallel recordings on several channels, nearly NO diskspace limitations ---
How does it work?
1. Login
2. Select your shows
3. Wait for "Ready-Emails" or watch your Recording-List
4. download recorded shows (within next 25 days!)
5. Decode received file with the DECODER (see below) and WATCH
(with Windows Media Player or VLC or any other Player) or burn to DVD/CD.
Download-Duration?
With a 2 Mbit/s Broadband a 60 Minutes Movie is downloaded in 25% of duration, = 15 Minutes when traffic is low. Check the OTR-Monitor, to find low-traffic-times or use the Happy-Hours, which provides definitivly best speed.
Terms of Trade?
All hardware (PC, TV-card, compressor-chips) are provided by service for free.
Shows and movies are captured in WMV (soon DivX+commercial free).
You have free 60 GB Webspace for private TV-recordings, which is sufficient for approx. 3000 movies.
Its strictly forbidden to share your private recordings or your password protected account publicly. Like a hardware videorecorder, you cannot record shows of the past.
You should use your holidays to read our terms of trades very carefully.
The service is complete free and community driven.
We expect your feedback and help for other users. Thats all.
Check it out now:
>>> Start here <<<
OTR-Decoder
lease download the decoder below, to watch the shows. For legal reasons, its not allowed to publish the recorded shows. So the decoder makes sure, you only can download your shows 1 time!
You need this Decoder to convert the .OTRKEY Files into Videos.
Download here: onlinetvrecorderdecoder.zip [1.224 KB]
works for: Win-XP, Win-W2K, W98
** Update 14.12.05 (decoder5.exe, decoder3.exe is not working anymore)
-> see also Luxury-Version for Win-XP with command line option
-> Linux-Decoder or use WINE
-> Macintosh Decoder
-> New: small Windows-Decoder with Commandline
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| Advantages/ Disadvantages | VCR with Tapes | PDR with harddisks or Media Center PC | www.OnlineTVRecorder.com |
| Yesterday | Today | Since 1.1.2005 | |
| Parallel Recording | 1 | 1, some high end devices 2 (if same sat-polarisation) | Unlimited, at the moment 12 , after march 2006: 45 |
| Capacity | 2 hour | 60 hour and more | 120 hour |
| Channels (Number, Availability) | Unlimited,local | Unlimited,local | Limited, transcontinental worldwide |
| Watching | At thome | At home | Home, Office, Mobile |
| Archiving | Analog->Digital Convert, Compress | Compressing & Transcoding | Ready compressed |
| Handling | Turn VCR on, Sat-Rcv on, channel adjust, Tape insert, programme | turn Digital recorder on, update EPG, Programming | Webinterface, click |
| Support | Read Manual alone | Varies | User 2 User Help, Shoutbox, Forum |
| Initial Costs | 300€ | 300€ for PDR or 100€ for Media Center Software | 0€ |
| Monthly Costs | 5€ per Tape | 15€ for EPG, 3€ per movie for DVD Backup | 0€ |
| Picture Quality | bad | perfect | sufficient |
| Availability after Recording | 90 seconds fast rewind | immediate | 30-90 minutes downloading time |
| Remote programming | NO | Difficult | Easy: Wap, SMS, Web |
| Remote Watching | NO | NO | Easy: Mobile, worldwide Web |
| Commercial breaks | YES | YES | Commercial free (new feature in progress) |
Screenshot
OTR Screenshot 11/05