Sage / Frey at CES?

[loonsailor]

Does Sage show at CES, in their own booth or suite, or in anybody else's?

Anything else that I should check out if I go?

[jtennison]

Look for the Ceton Corp booth. See what info they have about new 4-tuner computer cards with CableCard. Last I heard, availablilty was Q1 next year, and no price was mentioned.

[sleonard]

They have been @ CES for several years usually in the Hauppauge booth but last year I think they did something different.

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[stanger89]

Yeah, last year they didn't have a display of their own (vs previous years where they had a display in the Hauppauge booth), but they participated in a tech demo showing a Pioneer BD player streaming TV from a Dish STB, the BD player was running some variant of the extender software.

[Brent]

I think they will be in town - but I don't think they'll have an actual booth, instead like last year they would have a room (appointment only) where they can demo stuff without having to pay the CES fees - someone from SageTV would need to confirm that either way though


If I were going to CES I'd check out the following:

• Hauppauge Booth - ask them about the new MVP-HD, ask them if/when a Hauppauge CableCard tuner is coming, ask them if any changes to the HD-PVR are in the works
• SiliconDust - not sure if they'll be there but I'd love to see what they have planned for the future.
• Ceton - multi-tuner CableCard is exciting
• SageTV - if they are there I'd ask as many questions of them as I could to pull any info you can from them
• Plastic Logic - cause I'm interested in eReaders, their new Que is a device that's different and very interesting

There's probably more, but those are the ones that come to mind at the moment.

[jasonl]

Silicondust will be at CES.
South Hall 1
Booth # 21970

Jason
Silicondust Support

[pjpjpjpj]

Originally Posted by Brent

SageTV - if they are there I'd ask as many questions of them as I could to pull any info you can from them

And then post it all here, of course.

[panteragstk]

Originally Posted by jasonl

Silicondust will be at CES.
South Hall 1
Booth # 21970

Jason
Silicondust Support

Any info on what will be on display?

[jasonl]

Something very interesting. Can't give out the specifics now.

[reggie14]

Originally Posted by jasonl

Something very interesting. Can't give out the specifics now.

Oh come on... That's just cruel...

We're all friends here. We promise we won't tell anyone!

[tpboyce]

Originally Posted by jasonl

Something very interesting. Can't give out the specifics now.

Please tell me that it is a CableCard network tuner that will work with SageTV!

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by jasonl

Something very interesting. Can't give out the specifics now.

Excellent, I look forward to giving you my money

[stanger89]

Originally Posted by jasonl

Something very interesting. Can't give out the specifics now.

That get's a big

Originally Posted by tpboyce

Please tell me that it is a CableCard network tuner that will work with SageTV!

Probably the "satellite solution" given that I'll be receiving my R5000 tomorrow. And IMO a satellite solution is more interesting since at least around here, the HD selection is paltry in comparison on cable.

[toricred]

Maybe a competitor to the HD-PVR.

[reggie14]

Originally Posted by stanger89

Probably the "satellite solution" given that I'll be receiving my R5000 tomorrow. And IMO a satellite solution is more interesting since at least around here, the HD selection is paltry in comparison on cable.

I just did a quick comparison between the HD channels I get on Comcast (zip code 20852) and what's available on Dish Network (based on the Zap2it listings). Admittedly it was a quick check, but it looks like I get more HD channels. Some of them aren't terribly useful (e.g., G4HD and TruTVHD), but some vaguely are (e.g., AMCHD).

Still, except for the big ones that almost everyone gets (TNT, USA, SyFy, TBS, ESPN, etc.), very few things actually have HD programming. I'm excited for HD versions of the Daily Show and the Colbert Report though.

Maybe Comcast compresses HD channels too much- I'm not sure, I haven't noticed personally. But lately I've heard people complaining about Dish compressing HD channels too much too.

But I know your alternative is Mediacom, which isn't a great option.

[stanger89]

Originally Posted by reggie14

I just did a quick comparison between the HD channels I get on Comcast (zip code 20852) and what's available on Dish Network (based on the Zap2it listings). Admittedly it was a quick check, but it looks like I get more HD channels. Some of them aren't terribly useful (e.g., G4HD and TruTVHD), but some vaguely are (e.g., AMCHD).

I guess Mediacon is better than it used to be but as you can tell by the name I've given them, you won't find me going back any time soon.

Still, except for the big ones that almost everyone gets (TNT, USA, SyFy, TBS, ESPN, etc.), very few things actually have HD programming. I'm excited for HD versions of the Daily Show and the Colbert Report though.

IMO it doesn't really matter, at least not on satellite, the compression used on the HD channels is much "better", as in less intrusive than the SD ones resulting in significantly better quality even if it's just an upconvert. At least that's been my experience.

Maybe Comcast compresses HD channels too much- I'm not sure, I haven't noticed personally. But lately I've heard people complaining about Dish compressing HD channels too much too.

People always complain about compression, and they've probably got a point. I can tell that Dish's HD is softer than say my local ATSC broadcasts seem to be. But if I had to choose between the hard artifacts of ATSC/cable MPEG-2 and the soft artifacts of Satellite H.264, I'll take the later.

But I know your alternative is Mediacom, which isn't a great option.

Understatement of the thread.

But regardless of the relative merits of Cable and Satellite, one thing that can't really be argued is that while there is an alternative to the HD PVR (or R5000) if you've got cable, there isn't such an alternative for satellite, which would make a "satellite solution" uniquely interesting.

[tpboyce]

Originally Posted by toricred

Maybe a competitor to the HD-PVR.

Started thinking about that, a low cost, MPEG2 network encoder like the HD-PVR, but more reliable. Ideally, it would have IR blasters built in, and a firewire/serial changer as well.

[tpboyce]

Hmmm... Look about half way through this thread!

http://www.silicondust.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7873

Now, if it worked with Sage, that would be awesome!

[korben_dallas]

Originally Posted by tpboyce

Hmmm... Look about half way through this thread!

http://www.silicondust.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7873

Now, if it worked with Sage, that would be awesome!

Appears it's an HDHR w/ an internal cablecard?

[evilpenguin]

Mmm... that's exactly what I was hoping for