ReplayTV in Software Bundle Deal

Digital video recording pioneer ReplayTV plans to announce today that it will start selling software next year that helps personal-computer users tune in to and record live television.

The company said its software would be sold with Hauppauge Digital Inc.’s WinTV-PVR tuner-encoder card, hardware that can be added to a PC.

ReplayTV, owned by D&M; Holdings Inc. of Japan, said that it had successfully restructured over the last year and would complete its transformation from a hardware manufacturer to a software and service provider with the sale of all remaining models of its video recorder, probably by the end of the year.

ReplayTV and TiVo Inc. were the first companies to sell digital video recording capabilities.