After the 2004 Imagine Cup [pdf], Richard and I walked away with memories and a new wardrobe of Microsoft T-Shirts. In 2008 Readify is offering paid work placements to the top finalists. Times have changed, but the core of the competition remains the same - building amazing software.

T-Shirts aside we also built a lot of IP, which Richard and his passion for recording copious amounts of Television has slowly been able to turn into a viable commercial application.

On the 20th of October, Richard launched RikPVR!

 

This is the evolution, or perhaps revolution of what was once the "TV Prognosticator": n-thousand lines of code that flew us both half way around the world. Rewritten, tuned and tested, but the premise remains the same:

All you need is a Windows PC (XP or better) and a Digital TV Tuner (of the DVB-T kind) and you will be able to:

• Get setup in just a few minutes with the setup wizard.
• Pull in guide data from any XMLTV source.
• Record n-channels with n-tuners in n-clicks.
• Check on recordings, stop early or add time if they're running late.

Richard is continuing to innovate, over on the RikPVR blog he mentions that in the future it should be possible to record multiple co-channels on a single tuner, there's also a rumor that viewing live TV and recordings in progress is not far off.