All this talk of HD clients has got me wondering...

emok · #1 08-24-2006, 04:04 PM

Wouldn't it be nice of there was a sage client that could be installed on something like the MediaGate MG-350HD (http://www.xpcgear.com/mg350hd.html).

1. The hardware seems to support much of what we are looking for.
2. I believe the MediaGate is running linux and firmware is modifyable.
3. I dont' really care for the hard drive enclosure feature, but with everything else, the price seems pretty good, too.

If only...

paulbeers · #2 08-24-2006, 05:37 PM

Holy crap that is exactly the kind of thing I want!!! That would be an awesome HDTV client. Even if we had to have a small hard drive in it to store the sage software, I would be all over it (i have several smaller hard drives sitting around doing nothing as they aren't really big enough for any real storage).

emok · #3 08-24-2006, 05:56 PM

Most definitely....

The only thing that seems to be missing from the feature list is HDMI... oh and SageTV client support....

waynedunham · #4 08-24-2006, 06:03 PM

I just found this online today. It runs linux and looks like an ideal quiet client for SageTV.
I'm not sure if the firmware is hackable, but it sure looks like it would be ideal in the HT being nice and quiet.

3500 IPTV DMG - Digital Media Gateway

emok · #5 08-24-2006, 06:28 PM

That box looks pretty sweet, too. Not sure what it's running. Just missing digital video output.

dbfresh23 · #6 08-24-2006, 06:46 PM

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...7&page=1&pp=30

emok · #7 08-24-2006, 10:19 PM

Great.. all we need now is a good linux kernel hacker...

Mahoney · #8 08-25-2006, 12:44 AM

Shame there's no DVD player in it... otherwise it would indeed be perfect.

briands · #9 08-25-2006, 01:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Mahoney

Shame there's no DVD player in it... otherwise it would indeed be perfect.

But it says USB drives are supported.

emok · #10 08-25-2006, 02:15 PM

I'm sure some OS hacking could add USB DVD playback support. If only there were better software support for this hardware. I guess the same could be said about MIT MyHD cards. Looks like these Korean companies have some good execution with hardware, but software support is a little lacking.

dbfresh23 · #11 08-25-2006, 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by emok

I'm sure some OS hacking could add USB DVD playback support. If only there were better software support for this hardware. I guess the same could be said about MIT MyHD cards. Looks like these Korean companies have some good execution with hardware, but software support is a little lacking.

Not really, it would be *easier* for Sage to recompile the linux version of SageTV for other platforms then it would be to write something for the MyHD card w/o paying a bundle to gain access to their SDK.

emok · #12 08-25-2006, 04:38 PM

oops.. sorry, that's not what I had meant.

I just meant that there's some interesting hardware coming from these other companies (the MyHD and MediaGate stuff), but questionable software support, unfortunately.

My other point was that I think supporting DVD playback on the mediagate shouldn't be too hard, theoretically.

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