[mythtvnz] SageTV

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Dylan Hall<dylan at deedums.com> wrote:
> A little off topic but this feels like a good place to ask :)
>
> Has anyone had a play with the SageTV HD appliance thing?
> (http://www.sagetv.com/hd_theater.html)
>
> I've been eyeing them up for a while and between the more favourable
> exchange rate and them being on special at the moment they're getting
> tempting.
>
> To my untrained eye they appear to be equivalent to a Myth frontend in an
> appliance with some windows software doing the Myth backend thing.
>
> Thoughts/comments/experiences?

It is said to support uPnP so should theoretically be able to be used
as a front end, at least for watching recording & videos. You won't
get the extras like commercial skip or watch faster, but there may be
some compansations.

I think you'll find that there may be more knowledge on the
mythtv-users mailing list, eg this thread:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/368534