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#Sagetv for windows home server install#
#Sagetv for windows home server tv#

Of course, we have no way of capturing the HDTV feed, but it’s good to know the service is there. One cool thing we discovered while setting up the EPG is SageTV’s ability to show you Voom’s EPG grid.

You also choose how SageTV will change channels, and whether or not it will drive an IR-blaster to switch channels on your cable/satellite set-top box.

#Sagetv for windows home server tv#

SageTV uses a Wizard to step you through the configuration of your TV tuner and audio hardware, and the overall process is by and large painless.

#Sagetv for windows home server install#

Instead, we had to exit the SageTV installation, install the JVM, and then restart our SageTV installation process. Using Java is fine by us, but this installer should have some provision to either install it from the CD, or grab the Java installer from Sun’s web site to install it. Installation is fairly straightforward, although SageTV requires a Java Virtual Machine to be installed, and the installation CD we received didn’t have one. However, the fine print on its web states that the company “reserves the right to discontinue provision of the EPG Service or to separately charge End Users for provision of the EPG Service.” According to the company, the intent is to keep EPG updates free, unless something changes with Frey’s arrangement with Zap2It. Frey Technologies currently supplies EPG data at no charge from Zap2It Tribune Media Services. This EPG is also searchable, a key feature for finding specific content in large cable or satellite channel grids. Personalized Intelligent Recording and Scheduling: Determines your interests based on past viewing habits and automatically records similar programs.įully integrated electronic programming guide (EPG): This is a feature SageTV has implemented especially well when compared to other media applications on the market. For now, SageTV can use these formats only when running on the Plextor ConvertX 402U, TV402U, or ProVideo 358T, all of which are USB devices and offer hardware encoding of DivX.

Timeshifting using MPEG-2, MPEG-4 or DivX formats: Support for MPEG-4 and DivX is hardware-dependent, since SageTV currently does not have a software-based solution for encoding to these formats. Here’s the condensed feature list to give you an idea what SageTV offers for its $80 price-point: The company is currently considering adding HD support in 2005, though wasn’t ready to state any firm plans for HDTV support when we filed this review.

Provideo PV259, PV258 Series, PV256C or PV256T, and the new PV358T (version 2.1 or later)Īlso missing from the features list is support for over-the-air (OTA) HDTV tuner cards such as MIT’s MyHD MDP-100 and ATI’s HDTV Wonder.

Adaptec VideOh! DVD Media Center Edition PCI (version 1.4 or later).

ATI eHome Wonder (version 2.0 or later).

Prolink Pixelview (version 2.0 or later).

AVerMedia UltraTV 1500MCE or M150 card (version 2.0 or later).

AVerMedia UltraTV Media Center PCI 500 & UltraTV Media Center PCI 550 (version 2.1 or later).

Plextor ConvertX TV-402U & ConvertX M402U (version 2.1 or later).

Hauppauge Roslyn (Blackbird) card (version 2.0 or later).

Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-usb2 Model 941 (version 1.4 or later).

Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150, WinTV-PVR-150MCE, and WinTV-PVR-500MCE (version 2.1 or later).

Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250, WinTV-PVR-250MCE, WinTV-PVR-250BTV and WinTV-PVR-350.

Here are the tuner cards you can use with SageTV: SageTV only supports TV tuner cards that have hardware video compression encoders, so none of ATI’s All-in-Wonder products are officially supported.