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- SAGETV MEDIA EXTENDER REVIEW MOVIE
- SAGETV MEDIA EXTENDER REVIEW INSTALL
- SAGETV MEDIA EXTENDER REVIEW SOFTWARE
- SAGETV MEDIA EXTENDER REVIEW PC
Your welcome to have a look when I'm a bit further along.
SAGETV MEDIA EXTENDER REVIEW INSTALL
I'm going to try it on a Win7 install using an SSD boot drive in the next few days to see how it performs. One issue I have is that it installs to the system partion of WHS as do most of the ancillary programs but mymovies also caches it coverart/fanart there as well and I have 10gb of it.
SAGETV MEDIA EXTENDER REVIEW MOVIE
Only disadvantage is with my large movie collection they cannot cache the cover art for mymovies.
SAGETV MEDIA EXTENDER REVIEW PC
The extenders are great, much more convenient than a PC client, automatic resolution/refresh rate switching, 9 watts. The only issue I have with that is the 4 tuner limit so it needs something else to sort out the DVB-T side, I'm currently trying a different program but to early to say if it works great yet. I have a couple of Blackgold BGT3595 which Sage sees but not the DVB-S2 side so I'm using DVBlogic to tune them and present them as virtual tuners to Sage which works but was a right faff to get going. The problem is that Sage doesn't recognise and tune using the tuners we have here very well. It's great at some things but the configuration for UK users is terrible compared to WMC. Yes, have done, still ironing out the kinks and trying to work out the best way to get it all configured. the Prontos have just stopped being made and its time to work out an alternative. The Pronto remotes work great because they can control a number of machines depending on what room you are in but the cheap Sage extender remote that also controls the TV power and volume seems a cheap alternative and. The problem is we could also do with another media centre and there is no room left in that cupboard. The media centres and WHS are all in a central cupboard and controlled via Pronto TSU9400's talking to the RFX receiver. Only one goes to sleep and wakes up properly from the Pronto's so the other three tend to get left on. They are all dual core machines with 2 or 4gb ram, discrete graphics cards. Then there are 4 media centres all with multiple tuners which have there recordings swept onto the WHS as soon as they finish.Įach media centre seems to idle around 100w, more like 150w when they are recording, playing back etc. I currently have an Unraid with 20 tb of storage for movies etc which also backs up the WHS which holds my recorded tv, music photos, docs and pc backups.
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I did find that there is a UK section on the Sage forum thanks. For US$350 which I am guessing will end up at around £350 or more if you have to buy from the US and add postage and tax. I have not done the figures and it comes down a lot to what hardware you already own. You could then add something like the eee box which uses about 25W in real world use ( Asus EeeBox EB1501 ION Mini-PC | ) and I guess a lot less in S3 standby then I think the savings in electricity will not be massive. If you have a standard (main) HTPC acting as the server then with only one TV in use you are actually using less electricity compared to running a server and HD300. So there is a big difference but remember that if the extender setup you still need a server running which I guess will be a standard HTPC spec but most importantly a HTPC is likely to only be in use for a few hours a day? Also other than the machine that is actually doing recording you can turn a playback machine off completely Closest benchmarks I found here have a 9300 setup as 67W idle, 83W when watching a bluray and 110W when video encoding so I guess my memory is about right I did measure the power usage of my HTPC a while ago and IIRC was something like 18W in S3 standby and 80W in normal use.
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I see that it does use a lot less power 6-8W ( GeekTonic: SageTV HD300 HD Theater GeekTonic Review) when in use or not but is this really the savings you think?
SAGETV MEDIA EXTENDER REVIEW SOFTWARE
Their forums seem pretty well used so I guess it is probably worth asking there.Īs regards the devices paying for themselves, are you sure? If you replace two HTPCs with HD300s then you are still paying $199.95 for the first device with software and $149.95 for the second.