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Josh:
To all,

I recently read an article on SageTV which appears to be a promising product for sharing media across a home network and even the internet (with their addon). Has anyone had experience with this device or something similar and can anyone tell me more about it from first hand experience?

Thanks!

Josh

Josh:

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zridling:
Wow, it definitely looks cool and has a good price, but no, I have no personal experience with it. The fact that you can exchange digital media with a wide variety portable devices, including your phone, is pretty awesome.

Josh:
yeah, that is what I like about it. I just want first hand experience to speak and tell me what is thought of it. If I am going to invest that much into a home system, I want some sort of feedback

mikiem:
There are several alternatives, many of them free, depending on the functions/features you want/need... a lot of software you'd never expect also allows sharing either video or a video feed, like VLC. Check out Videohelp.com. Performance also varies with your hardware, if you're planning on using tuners etc. live from within the app.

GB-PVR is interesting, but a bit more hassle to set up. Cyberlink had a decent setup, but they're going to start charging for it. Beyond TV is more popular I think than Sage if you're going to pay. The easiest may be a downloadable, bootable, Linux disk image (forgot the name - sorry), where you just boot into an HTPC eviron.

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