PlayOn also offers an “Off-Peak” DVR option, which you can use to schedule recordings overnight when fewer people are vying for bandwidth. To start a recording, drag any show into the Record Queue on the left sidebar, or click the record button for any individual season or episode.

(If you have a desktop computer with a secondary or external hard drive, you should also select that drive in PlayOn settings before recording anything.) PlayOn then lays out each channel’s content in a series of lists you can browse through. In both cases, the process is similar: Log into your streaming services through the settings menu of the PlayOn app, then select the streaming service (or “channel”) whose programs you want to record. Jared Newman / IDGįor each streaming source, PlayOn presents a list of programs that you can drag into the recording queue. This service quickly becomes pricier than the desktop version, though: A current sale lets you save 100 recordings for $15, with monthly subscriptions also available.

For those who don’t have a Windows computer, PlayOn Cloud can record videos through its own servers, then save them to its mobile app for iOS or Android.

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