HD100 - LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT!!

[ozfiles]

Nice job sage, your on a winner here.
Just got mine today and it couldn't be any easier to setup and run.
For all the aussies out there, get yourself one, it works a treat.

[ybrew]

Originally Posted by paulbeers

My wife noticed it too. We were using an MVP hooked to an HDTV at High Quality and now that we have switched to HD Extenders, she is loving HD even more. Now if only I can convince her we need it for the bedroom.....

I've decided I'm filtering out HD from all my SD extenders. HD Playback is 1 billion times better with the HD extender and leaves my server free to do other stuff. Besides, the TVs with SD extenders now are 2 27"'s and 1 20" TV. SD is fine for those.

[trini0]

It has almost been 2 weeks, and this is the best that my viewing experience has been since the 3 years that I've had my hand in HTPCs.
My old HTPC client is getting recycled to desktop duty

Thanks SageTV

[Lucas]

Just picked up my extenders and although I haven't connected them yet..... I Love IT as well....

[rmwarren]

I am new to SageTV and had only recently downloaded and tested the version for WHS along with a wireless MPV. I liked the server software but the MPV did not impress me. I returned it and then received notice of the HD extender coming available, which looks great.

My question is whether the HD extender will work with the WHS version of SageTV? what I read on the website only states that you need SageTV 6.0 and I assume the WHS version will work but wanted to make sure. The online documentation seems a little thin.

Thanks for any input.

RMW

[gplasky]

The HD extender works with all flavors of Sage server. Windows, WHS or Linux.

Gerry

[jamma]

See my WHS + SageTV experience here:
http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29174

[Ralphjb]

Took me a while to post - about a month. But man am I impressed with the SageTV HD Extender. I have one PC that is powerful enough to comfortably hand HD material (recorded with an r5000HD) and HD discs. But my other PC was suffered from stuttering. Waiting for the HD Media Extender to start shipping seemed interminable and many times I thought about buying a new PC.

Glad I waited. $200 I got a device that performs as well as a $1,000+ PC. Very pleased, indeed.

[Serra]

HD100 is the most amazing thing I've ever seen. I was looking at all of the different flavors of HTPC software and I picked sage thinking that the HD100 was a good thing to have along with it. It took me months to get my hands on two of them, but I'm very glad I did.

[dkemme]

My HD-100 works better than my $2K HTPC!

Have no fear, the HTPC is now a SageServer, but much more stable and has dramatically increased my WAF.

[djseto]

Got mine today. This thing ROCKS!

[garmpe]

Well I got mine yesterday and I have to say I'm kind of disappointed. I've spent years building HTPC's and tinkering with them trying to get them just right and loved nearly every minute of it. Then I get this thing and 15 minutes after getting the derlivery knock at the door it's up and working with nothing to do. THe damn thing just works. The WAF went straight up - one fairly plain looking cardboard box brought with it happiness that my years of work could not achieve.

I'm not sure what I'm going to with all the spare time.....maybe a new server - I have to have SOMETHING to tinker with.

Damn Sage and their awesome extender!

[computer33]

Last night I watched my first hockey game studder free! Smooth as ice ... something my pc could not reliably do no matter what I did.

[othy]

I've had mine for a few days now. I'm thrilled with the ease-of-setup, picture quality, and user-friendliness vs. my old client.

However, I wish I could gush like you guys about my amzing playback. 95% of the time it's great, but I do have significant stuttering problems, particularly--but not exclusively--after commerical skips or FF/RW. It happens on shows recorded with my HDHR as well as from my PVR-500. Watching imported xvid avi's is silky smooth.

So far, I can't trace it back to either network congestion or CPU load. I'm on a gigabit switch and my CPU doesn't break a sweat. At times, I can copy large files over the network while watching TV stutter-free. Other times the network is completely idle and stuttering is nearly unwatchable. I can't find a pattern. I'm connect via component video and optical audio.

I'm running latest beta on the server (in anticipation of the HD-PVR I pre-ordered) and latest production firmware--When the newest beta nixed audio, I had to revert. Server is brand new, clean install, running no other software.

So far my wife is being patient (she's pretty tech-saavy and forgiving of the need to tweak and tinker with new toys), but my WAF was *much* higher when I had an HTPC client parked under the TV.

Any suggestions?

Tim

[meep]

I had the WHS demo installed for a while and even though non-pooled drives were used for Sage recordings, I found it n undatisfactory solution. Since I've reverted to Windows Server 2003, performance has improved.

[bialio]

Just got one of the new batch of HD100's - like the facelift! It also seems more responsive than my other two - maybe had some upgrades?

[electron]

Can you post a picture of what they look like now?

[Flash69]

Originally Posted by electron

Can you post a picture of what they look like now?

I already posted a picture of the new HD-100. Please see my post in this thread.

http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...=30143&page=15

[meep]

Just wish they did not have a captive power cable. I had to change the plug and it was fun figuring out which was live and which was neutral!! Otherwise up and running in a few minutes. Works great!

[Taddeusz]

Yea, all electronic equipment should have detachable power cords. I despise stuff that doesn't. They probably do it to shave a few cents of the cost. The only other thing I might see is some people might get ticked off if they lose the power cord. Granted, you can always run to Radio Shack or wherever and get a new one. It's just nice when you're moving your equipment around not to have to sort out the attached power cords.

The largest violator of attached cords are computer speaker sets where all the wires are permanently attached. What a PITA! What genius engineer thought of that! It's a cabling nightmare!