HD200 x2 on the way - a few questions!

[vorpel]

Hi everyone! After playing around with a Popcorn Hour A-110 I am excited to move up to the new SageTV HD200!

I've been looking through the forums and have found a lot of answers (which prompted the purchase), but there are a few that I haven't been able to find anything definitive on.

First - here is my environment and what I want out of the HD200 initially:

I've got a Windows 2008 Server domain with lots of storage (18TB usable on a Raid6 array - 16 x 1.5TB drives with a hot spare) that I have all of my media shared from. In addition to that I want to bring my DVD library online (initially just ripped to .ISO format, but maybe some type of compression later on that maintains DVD menu & extras...)

I am currently interested in running in stand-alone mode to play my existing library of content. I will eventually move into doing my own captures, etc, but not quite yet.

Questions:

1. What does the interface look like for playing back content from a network share?

2. Can the HD200 show my movies with cover art images? (I was doing this with My Movies extension to Vista Media Center)

3. Can the HD200 show extended data like director, cast info, etc? (again, I'm comparing to the My Movies ext for Vista MC - www.mymovies.dk )

I think that is about it for now.

I will be continuing to pour over the forums and would love to eventually get a full SageTV server/media center setup, but for now the uncomplicated - it just works - playback on the HD200 will be great.

Thanks for reading!

-DC