DVB Dream helps you turn your PC or laptop into a dependable TV and broadcast monitoring studio without bloat or distractions.
With a modest tuner card and an antenna, you can capture HD broadcasts at high quality, watch live TV, save hours of video/audio content for your tv-pleasure or business.
It happily integrates with TBS and many other BDA-compliant tuners (USB sticks or PCIe cards, most of them are pretty cheap and easy to find & order).
Its scheduler, channel list manager, and PiP playback were shaped by years of community requests, so you get polished workflows without the learning cliff. Record a dozen TV channels while previewing another, export clean audio/video tracks for podcasts, youtube, tiktok or other streaming channels.
Whether you’re archiving late-night sports for friends or logging compliance footage for your team, or hunting/saving interesting video streams for your social media/streaming business, the community-tested workflows stay friendly and reliable.
What You Need to Get Started
- TBS tuner hardware (USB stick or PCIe card). We recommend sourcing from TBS DTV Shop for consistent capture quality.
- DVB Dream latest version. Keep your installation current before scanning channels or scheduling recordings.
- An antenna or cable TV line plus enough local storage to hold the transport streams you plan to archive.
Already producing content? Compare these steps with TV Records for YouTubers to reuse editing-ready workflows.
Use Cases by Audience
- Everyday computer viewers: Replace set-top boxes, keep TV in a desktop window while working, and archive favorite broadcasts for offline playback.
- Streamers on Twitch or Kick: Capture HD feeds, route them into OBS scenes, and stay compliant by storing reference recordings alongside overlays.
- Influencers: Build trend reels from regional broadcasts, tag notable segments. It can easily be one of the best tools for influencers and content creation.
- YouTubers: Batch record multi-language news, trim frame-accurately, and align with the YouTuber toolkit for editing-ready exports.
- Educational creators: Collect documentary clips, annotate metadata in the playlist manager, and publish responsibly with context notes.
- Research & compliance teams: Monitor regulatory broadcasts, store timestamps, and replay content for audit purposes without third-party DRM locks.
- Newsrooms & fact-checkers: Record parallel channels for comparative reporting, corroborate claims, and archive the footage used for investigations.
- Podcasters & radio producers: Extract clean audio tracks, catalog quotable segments, and keep source recordings for licensing diligence.
- Accessibility & caption teams: Generate transcripts, add custom subtitles, and validate audio-description mixes before releasing content.
- Language learners & translators: Practice with authentic broadcasts, switch subtitle tracks on the fly, and build personal study libraries.
- Sports analysts & coaches: Clip highlight reels, scrub slow-motion replays, and share tactical breakdowns with distributed squads.
- Crisis response monitors: Track emergency broadcasts, archive official announcements, and circulate vetted updates across coordination teams.
- Event production crews: Capture rehearsal feeds, review stage camera angles, and hand curated cuts to onsite directors.
- Hospitality & healthcare managers: Deliver curated programming to waiting areas, monitor signal quality centrally, and update playlists remotely.
- Market researchers: Analyze advertising slots, log sentiment shifts across regions, and correlate findings with campaign performance.
- Media archivists: Preserve cultural broadcasts, maintain provenance metadata, and prepare clips for long-term storage or exhibitions.
- Diaspora communities: Follow hometown channels, share cultural moments with family abroad, and maintain language immersion.
How DVB Dream Elevates TV on Your Computer
- Low-latency playback, audio offset controls, and per-channel profiles keep viewing comfortable while you capture lossless TS or MPG files.
- Queue simultaneous recordings, mix picture-in-picture views, and wake up to completed jobs. DVB Dream can record up to 20 channels at once.
- You can easily build your own Stock Video Footage Archive for various content creation purposes.
