Video/Television
freeware
GB-PVR
GB-PVR is a Personal Video Recorder (PVR) allowing you to schedule TV recordings, view and pause live TV. In addition to this PVR functionality, it also acts as a media center allowing you to watch movies, listen to music, view pictures and listen to FM radio. It also supports specialist hardware decoders including Sigma Designs XCard, Hauppauge PVR350 and Hauppauge MediaMVP. Supports multiple tuners, allowing you to record multiple channels at one time.
freeware
Readon TV Movie Radio Player
Readon TV Movie Radio Player is a revolutionary new software that allows you to watch thousands of TV channels and latest movies directly on your computer. You can also record your favorite radio and MTV songs to MP3 audio files.
freeware
ProgDVB
ProgDVB allows you to watch SAT-Television and listen to Radio channels directly from satellite by using DVB-PCI cards with hardware decoders on the board, SAT-dish, and personal x86-compatible computers with Microsoft Windows installed. It has options for working with network broadcasting and Audio/Video recording of the stream to different digital-media formats.
open source
MediaPortal
MediaPortal is an Open Source application ideal for turning your PC / TV into a very advanced Media Center. MediaPortal allows you to listen to your favorite music & radio, watch and store your videos and DVDs, view, schedule and record live TV as a digital video recorder and much much more. You get MediaPortal as Open Source software. This means you can help in developing MediaPortal or tweak it for your own needs with lots of innovating plugins from our great community.