Tivo Replacement?

[compuguru]

I'm currently in the process of building a WHS that will hold our media (photos, videos, music...). I also plan to get SageTV for WHS and an HDHR so it will be able to act like a PVR. Then upstairs would be an HD200 for the actual viewing. Does this sound correct? Will I be able to schedule recordings through the HD200, like a Tivo, or does that have to be done on the server?

One thing I noticed while browsing this site is that there are a lot of discussions, but not very many guides. It would be nice to have some sort of feature guide, or even a video demo so people can see how the program/hardware actually works...

[stanger89]

Originally Posted by compuguru

I'm currently in the process of building a WHS that will hold our media (photos, videos, music...). I also plan to get SageTV for WHS and an HDHR so it will be able to act like a PVR. Then upstairs would be an HD200 for the actual viewing. Does this sound correct? Will I be able to schedule recordings through the HD200, like a Tivo, or does that have to be done on the server?

Yup, that sounds about right, you do all the operation through the HD200. The only thing I can think of off hand that you'd have to do on the WHS machine is the initial scan on the HDHR.

[freedml]

Any tuner cards/plug-ins in the SageTV Server will give you the PVR function, watchable and controllable from any Media Extender, Client or Placeshifter.

[PeteCress]

Originally Posted by compuguru

I'm currently in the process of building a WHS that will hold our media (photos, videos, music...). I also plan to get SageTV for WHS and an HDHR so it will be able to act like a PVR. Then upstairs would be an HD200 for the actual viewing. Does this sound correct? Will I be able to schedule recordings through the HD200, like a Tivo, or does that have to be done on the server?

That's where I'm coming from right now.

New user, just migrated to WHS.

My experience so far: is "Yes" to all. I haven't got a lot of Tivo experience, but I bought one awhile ago; took it home, fooled around long enough for it to dawn on me that I was going to be locked into $14.00/month - or more - until the end of time; and returned it.

SageTV for me is Tivo plus portablility (can serve many TVs) minus the monthly cost.

One thing I noticed while browsing this site is that there are a lot of discussions, but not very many guides. It would be nice to have some sort of feature guide, or even a video demo so people can see how the program/hardware actually works...

You are not alone. I find it frustrating that SageTV is such a great product and the support is of such a high level, but that there's this lack of coherence in the presentation of the whole product.

I want these guys to make a lot of money so the product will continue to evolve.

Yet I've corresponded with at least three technically-oriented people who came away from the SageTV web site *still* wondering what SageTV does.

I suggested that they hire the guy who wrote this:

http://www.geektonic.com/2009/01/sag...geektonic.html

to overhaul their web site - at least the splash/intro part. But nobody seemed impressed.

[matt91]

I really think that should support some wiki pages. I think with the number of sophisticated users here, we'd have some good pages.