Thanks for joining us for another show this week!  This time we step away from discussing the latest Media Center news and even expand the show for the week to talk less about Media Center specifically and more about HTPCs in general.  For Episode 43, Josh and I are joined by Andy VanTil, creator of DVR-MS Toolbox and Brent Evans of Geektonic to try and figure out why HTPCs haven’t taken off considering the value they add to people’s media enjoyment.
It’s another long one this week but you’ll want …

Brent Evans over at GeekTonic has the skinny on a new way to run an HTPC from SageTV.  It seems the company understands that setting up the hardware, software and drivers for an HTPC isn’t always easy and they want to make it easier.
During his interview with CTO of SageTV, Jeff Kardatzke, Brent learned that the company is working on a “SageTV Linux Media Server” that would run off of a USB key.  This would basically allow you to use a PC as a headless media server by booting …

SageTV, one of the more popular pieces of HTPC software on the market, is great about updates.  The company seems to pump them out continuously not just for the software but this time for their HD100 and HD200 extenders as well.
Brent Evans from GeekTonic has the details on the latest updates posted.  If you’re a SageTV user you’re going to want to know what the latest versions are going to give you.  Here’s just a sample:
For SageTV software:

Fixed bug with some ATSC/QAM recordings being recognized as MPEG1 instead …