How many HD100's do you have?

[Brent]

Now that it seems SageTV has caught up with demand on the HD extenders and have had them in stock for a while, I'm curious about how many of us in the SageTV community are now using the HD100 extender as one of their "client's"?

Seems like the trend (for good reason) has been to forgo the HTPC by the television and use the excellent HD100 extender instead.

I for one think the HD extender is the way to go as long as you can get along without an active USB port or a local optical (CD or DVD) drive. It's silent, small, works great with the HD-PVR and is super easy to set up. So I now have two HD Extenders, one HTPC client, one HTPC server, one Media MVP that is rarely used anymore and of course my work laptop with SageTV Placeshifter for the road. Another nice benefit for SageTV the company (beyond any profit from sales) is supporting the extenders has to be easier than the hundreds of different hardware configurations of HTPCs. Yes they still will have to do this for their regular HTPC product, but I'm guessing the more SageTV folks go with HD100's the fewer support requests they get for hardware-related issues.

NOTE: The poll is public so others will see your answer.

[MeInMaui]

I've got 3.

Aloha,
Mike

[Brent]

Originally Posted by MeInMaui

I've got 3.

Aloha,
Mike

Dang Mike,
You're so fast I hadn't published the poll part of the thread

[QueOnda]

1 but want more but can't until next year. I already bought a lot of toys this year and not even Xmas yet.

[evilpenguin]

I've got only got one, but only because I only have one TV. I plan on buying these things on a 1:1 basis with TV's in the future.

[Apap]

I have 1 for now but will eventually replace my 2 MVPs as the budget and BossLady permit. I am very pleased with the output quality and ease of setup and will someday retire my living room HTPC and move to a true server/client setup with another HD-100 in the living room.

[paulbeers]

Just ordered my third on Sunday and it should be here on Friday..... Based on all the difficulties with the HD-PVR and full clients, I am soooo glad I only use HD100s with mine!!

[flavius]

Just one. But I might get another one.

[jphipps]

2 and one more MVP to replace... With an HD-PVR, there is no other option....

[mbowe]

Got my first yesterday, I actually hook it up tonight, can't wait to get out of the office. I'm excited to shut down my huricane loud 360 for everything other then games.

Once proven, I'll buy 2 more for the house and then 2 more over time as the kids grow. One of the most appealing aspects of the extender approach is the ability to replicate the experience in a fairly cheap cookie cutter fashion. Managing 4-5 different rooms via an HTPC was not appealing.

I hope Sage becomes the iPod/iTunes of home entertainment, with a lot more flexibility/control of course.

[Naylia]

My plan is for a WHS or Linux with SageTV as media server in the home, with a PC client with Blu-ray in the family room/home theater and then use the Sage HD100s elsewhere.

[skiingwiz]

I have two now and three more eventually.

[gibsonpa]

I bought 2 from the Feb batch (sold out in a few days). They were such a hit, the wife was harping for more. We just got 2 more last month...for a total of 4!

It is really funny, the whole family (including 7 year old son) talks about sage all the time. His friends are like...what is sage? Too funny.

[pjpjpjpj]

Two now (family room and bedroom), but will eventually get another for the "someday to be built, dream basement media room".

My future children will not have TVs in their room. Call me old school.
(or just call me too stubborn to run 3 or 4 more 100' network cables through two floors and an attic)

[ybrew]

2, plus 3 media mvps in use. I want to replace all the MVPs with HD 100s, but that will have to wait.

[mikehaney]

Just got my first 2 today, and should have 1 more by the end of the week. I've been using PC clients for the last month and it's a real headache. These extenders work sooooo much better. Installation took all of about 15 minutes each, and 10 minutes of that was updating the firmware.

[Brent]

I'm curious on why some of you chose "don't need or want and extender."

Not second-guessing you here, but wondering if it because you have a perfectly good HTPC client already, only use one HTPC on one TV or just don't care for the extender concept.

[Skirge01]

First off, yes, I do already have an HTPC client installed in the main TV room. Second, even if I didn't have a client, I'd still build an HTPC. Playing games and surfing the internet is WAY too cool on a big screen!

Now, if I were to put a TV in the bedroom, I would not build another client for that and would certainly use an extender because I'm not going to be surfing the internet or playing games on a 27" TV across the room. But, that's an "if", hence my vote for "don't want or need".

[CanadianEh]

I replied as having one - and it's an awesome box. I just wish a couple of limitations could be addressed someday:

- Internet Radio (some way, somehow)
- Very basic web browsing (would be nice)

Also, the interface still seems a little sluggish in my setup, but I have a feeling that might be directly related to my server being an Athlon 2600+ aiwht only 512MB of RAM (I have no idea how that thing manages to work as well as it does at this point.. lol)

[Serra]

The main reason I switched to Sage as the HD-100. Once I realized what an HG-100 was and what it did, I was sold on Sage.

I still think it should be called an WAF-100.