PC DVR systems can be a pain to setup, and often require several trips back to Best Buy or your electronics store of choice for the components you forgot or didn’t know you’d need (you do have a tuner, right?). The Nero LiquidTV serves up everything you need to make your PC into a DVR system worthy of living room status.
For $69.99 you get a tuner, a USB IR receiver, TiVo software, a TiVo remote, and a one-year subscription to the service. That last part is really the one letdown for the package. After a year you’ll be paying $99.99 to continue your service. If you don’t need cable and just want to pull down your PBS for recording, Nero’s system comes with a radio tuner. It doesn’t have a great antenna, but I’m sure you could find a way to fix that little problem.
As for the software, it’s essentially just what you’d find in a TiVo set-top box. You don’t get any of the extras, like photo viewing or a music player. It does what you need, but again, the yearly subscription fee kinda sucks.
