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====Windows==== [[File:MicrosoftGameDVR.png|thumb|A screenshot of [[VLC media player]] showing the metadata of a digital recording of the game [[Audiosurf 2]]. Note the "Microsoft Game DVR" as the artist.]] There are several free digital video recording applications available for [[Microsoft Windows]] including [[GB-PVR]], [[MediaPortal]], and [[Orb (Software)|Orb]] (web-based remote interface). There are also several [[Proprietary software|commercial]] applications available including [[CyberLink]], [[SageTV]] (which is no longer available after Google acquired it in June 2011), [[Beyond TV]] (which is considered discontinued despite an official announcement from SnapStream since the last update was October 2010 and they are concentrating on their enterprise search products), [[DVBViewer]], Showshifter, [[InterVideo WinDVR]], the [[R5000-HD]] and [[Meedio]] (now a dead product β Yahoo! bought most of the company's technology and discontinued the Meedio line, and rebranded the software Yahoo! Go β TV, which is now a free product but only works in the U.S.<ref>Please note: Yahoo! Go for TV currently is only available inside the U.S., for Windows-based systems. [http://sites.mobile.yahoo.com/go/tv/download Yahoo! Connected TV] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090103191224/http://sites.mobile.yahoo.com/go/tv/download |date=2009-01-03 }}. ''Yahoo! Connected TV''. Retrieved 09 December 2013</ref>). Most [[TV tuner card]]s come bundled with software which allows the PC to record television to hard disk. See TV tuner card. For example, [[Leadtek]]'s WinFast DTV1000 digital TV card comes bundled with the WinFast PVR2 software, which can also record analog video from the card's [[composite video]] input socket.<ref>[http://www.leadtek.com/eng/tv_tuner/news_detail.asp?newsid=611&pronameid=382&lineid=6 "turn your PC into a powerful DVD video recorder" β¦ "recording and capturing digital video from digital TV", Media Release, October 1st, 2007] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160413223032/http://www.leadtek.com/eng/tv_tuner/news_detail.asp?newsid=611&pronameid=382&lineid=6 |date=2016-04-13 }}. ''Leadtek''. Retrieved 09 December 2013</ref> [[Windows Media Center]] is a DVR software by Microsoft which was bundled with the [[Windows XP Media Center Edition|Media Center edition of Windows XP]], the Home Premium / Ultimate editions of [[Windows Vista]], as well as most editions of [[Windows 7]]. When Windows 8 was released in 2012, Windows Media Center was not included with Windows 8 OEM or Retail installations, and was only available as a $15 add-on pack (including DVD Playback codecs) to Windows 8 Pro users.<ref>[http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-windows_install/getting-windows-media-center-on-windows-8-bought/324dc94b-0750-44b0-8e78-08c59fd4130b Getting Windows Media Center on Windows 8 bought through DreamSpark]. ''Windows''. Retrieved 9 December 2013</ref> The Windows Game Bar specifies all recordings made by it as being titled "Microsoft Game DVR" followed by the game or application's title.
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