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Yahoo! launches Yahoo! Go For TV

Search engine major Yahoo! have launched a new software product, which would enable the web users to turn a PC into a digital video recorder.

This application is named Yahoo! Go For TV and it makes a PC capable of playing and recording video found through Yahoo search.

Yahoo! Go For TV can also play music from Yahoo’s online radio stations and show pictures from its Flickr photo-sharing service.

The basic requirement of using this application is a PC powered with Windows XP operating system and loaded with 512 MB of RAM, 40 MB of free disk space for installation and 20 GB of additional disk space for TV recordings. There is no support for Apple Computers though.

Users would also require to have a TV tuner card and remote control. In addition, the TV would require video and audio input connections. Broadband connectivity is required to fully utilize the potential of the application.