If you want more than just your local channels in HD within Media Center, you either have to have a generous cable company which doesn’t encrypt their QAM channels, get an ATI CableCard tuner or wait for Ceton’s M-card tuner.  There are other ways but until David took time to write up a tutorial over at Geektonic, these things seemed a little complicated.
Well, this latest guest post has you covered.  David takes time to walk you through the entire process of getting the Hauppauge HDPVR working within Media Center …

For those SageTV users who don’t want to run beta software, your wait is finally over.  Version 6.6.1 has been released from beta and is free for owners of previous version 6 software.  Brent has posted that there were at least 20 updates during the beta run some of which include:
 

BDMV folder (BluRay) support on the HD200 for playback of the main movie with support for audio track selection, subtitles and chapters
System Message functionality for simplified system monitoring
Placeshifter automatic logins
Overhauled channel setup & channel scanning for digital …

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 …

I’m not a SageTV user myself, but I always enjoy learning and if there’s one place I’ve found that you can learn about SageTV it’s over at GeekTonic.  Brent Evans knows his stuff and he also knows others who do as well.
Today Brent published a guest post from Dave detailing how you can use your SageTV HD-200 extender to watch live and recorded TV while you’re away from home.  I have a friend who currently does this to watch his home programming while in the mountains of NC on …

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 …