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It seemed that everything that could possibly prevent the guys from recording episode 132 of the Entertainment 2.0 Podcast did happen, but they managed to pull it off anyway. The week just had too much news to be stopped! The weather did prevent Craig Scholle from being able to join Josh Pollard as...
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For the last few years the top two competitors in the home theater PC software marketplace have been Windows Media Center and SageTV. Windows Media Center comes with every Windows 7 (and Vista) computer with Home Premium or higher installed on it. Sage TV was a program that had to be purchased...
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Since starting HPTCentric around eight months ago, SageTV has undergone some big changes. A new version with an all new UI, a new hardware extender and a lot of excitement around an as of yet unused PlayReady license means it was time for us to talk Sage. And when you’re going to talk...
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While the news broke not too long ago right here on The DMZ, we’re back this month to discuss CableCard moving beyond the Media Center scope and into the wild. So far, this is all taking place within the MythTV realm and as such we’ve brought together two folks who will be affected by the...
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One of the features that the Ceton InfiniTV4 was poised to offer was tuner sharing. This would allow you to have your InfiniTV4 in one HTPC and assign tuners to other HTPCs in your home. Unfortunately CableLabs put the kibosh on this rather quickly. Luckily, they’ve seen the light and as of...
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Want to back up the PCs in your home without thinking about it? Need something to server media to several HTPCs spread through your house? Windows Home Server may be just what you’re looking for. This month, Jere and I speak with Vince Anido and Alton Marschall, both Windows Home Server...
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We’re back for April and spring is in full swing. Jere Jones and I are back this month with all the ins and outs of storing and cataloging your media. Just like most things, there are different strokes for different folks and Jere and I are joined by two guys who store a ton of media and who...
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Most people who read here or are involved with the HTPC community in any way know most of the options out there. For those looking to get started you may have heard of Windows Media Center and maybe SageTV, two of the bigger players in the market. What you may not know is that there are a ton...
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If DVR-MS Toolbox, the little app that can do anything to video wasn’t enough, Andy VanTil decided that SageTV users should be given cable card as well. With that in mind, he’s created his SageMCTuner application that basically uses Windows Media Center to do the actual recording! Though the...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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