Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I just moved into a new apartment and have been reading about all of the new power strips out there, especially the green ones. I was wondering if you had any suggestions about which "green "power strips are out there with decent joules ratings. And when I say green, I mean power strips that have the remotes or switches to turn off all electricity flowing to certain plugs and with at least 2 plugs that are always on. I was looking specifically at sub $50 because I will need two, but if that is not possible I could be convinced otherwise. Thanks!"
Paul,
The advantage BeyondTV has over the competition there is that commercial detection and video compression is built in. Keep in mind that this functionality is readily available in almost all other solutions including MCE, VMC, GB-PVR, Meedio, Media Portal and SageTV.
It is nice to have it built in to BTV, I agree, but it isn't a feature you can't have with the competing HTPC programs by any means.