How Many of Us Are There?

[peternm22]

Actually, there aren't any SageTV users at all. The forum accounts were all created by Narflex, and he just spends the day talking to himself.

[toricred]

I've often wondered if I'm the only actual user. This proves it. Thanks for assuring me I'm not nuts. Now if all those voices would just quit screaming in my ears.

[Nelbert]

TBH to buy into this market I'd always go with the smaller companies with a good reputation. The good media server/players are still a niche market. In the UK it's only this year that companies like AC Ryon have made it into the shelves of the stores over here.

Many of the others, TViX/Divco, PopCorn, BDi, SageTV are still internet order only. They won't have the sales figures of the likes of Netgear, Asus, Western Digital, but they do care about their products. The lifespan of the niche products is usually much higher than the mass market stuff.

Why? It's often more cost effective for the Asus, WD, Netgears of the world to release new hardware than maintain and develop their own firmwares. This is also true in Europe for the freeview boxes. Many brands available, but most don't write the firmware/software and release a new model if there are major issues.

Boxee and GoogleTV may bring changes, but I doubt it, as the global hardware companies still prefer to shift new hardware than keep fixing > 1yr old hardware.

[stevech]

Sage should try to get Geek-leader Leo Laporte and his home theater guru, on their syndicated radio shows and podcasts, to appreciate the merits of SageTV. They know of it, but only barely. They probably agree that MS MCE is poop.

Leo's fickle. Of late he's keen on Roku and Netflix streaming.

[mistergq]

Originally Posted by stevech

Sage should try to get Geek-leader Leo Laporte and his home theater guru, on their syndicated radio shows and podcasts, to appreciate the merits of SageTV. They know of it, but only barely. They probably agree that MS MCE is poop.

Leo's fickle. Of late he's keen on Roku and Netflix streaming.

Ironically, it was Leo's old Screensaver that almost killed diy PVR for me. They recommended the ATI All In Wonder card which was software based decoding. Watching recorded shows was fine. Watching live shows, that was another story.

If I was not willing to write off the cost of the ATI card, and get a PVR250, I would have walked away and been using either TIVO or Verizon DVR right now.