We still press one button to watch TV.

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I hope team from Sage do well and give Google a great product. Look forward to seeing the SageTV product from Google.

For me WMC was a good choice.

Only having one HD300 in the house left me wondering what to do if my system failed. I can not see Google supporting the HD300 as there will be so much new technology etc by the time their product comes to market. The $300+ being paid for the HD300 on ebay helped. I am using my $300 for new HDHomerun 6tuner unit I ordered.

Seems there have been a few changes for better since I last tried WMC. I now have 11 rows of channels in the guide and channel logos thanks to plg-ins.

While WMC is not SageTv it does what we want. Record TV to watch later. Our AV unit has Netflix built in. We have home movies of kids floating around on server that we can still watch.

Kids or wife still press one button on remote and minute later TV is ready to watch. While commands and button options are not as great as SageTV, family are not unhappy with the move.



We love our TV room. Just finished painting. Photos etc to go on wall as we left 2 inches between screen and wall for hangings. Upstairs floor beams ran the right way in ceiling to let me put 110 inch screen above ceiling line.

[PLUCKYHD]

Can I ask why you are using a xbox 360 in the theater room and not the pc itself? With the pc itself you would get built in netflix and bluray support (with TMT).

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Because the wife won't let me have 'that big thing' in her new room!
The AV unit has BluRay.
Right above screen is climate controlled storage room with HDHR, phone, TV connections etc. So I can keep it out of TV room. Office is attached to that room and I have a hole in wall for office desktop tower to feed through to screen and keyboard. "We don't allow towers, boxes or dogs in the house"

[panteragstk]

Originally Posted by Crunch

Because the wife won't let me have 'that big thing' in her new room!
The AV unit has BluRay.
Right above screen is climate controlled storage room with HDHR, phone, TV connections etc. So I can keep it out of TV room. Office is attached to that room and I have a hole in wall for office desktop tower to feed through to screen and keyboard. "We don't allow towers, boxes or dogs in the house"

That's what RF remotes, long HDMI cables, and closets are for.

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by panteragstk

That's what RF remotes, long HDMI cables, and closets are for.

Exactly

you are missing allot of native integration that way man and you already have the rf remote.

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I might need educating... I thought I had it covered. What could I do better? What advantages would I have? Server is about 20 cable feet from Xbox/wall outlet behind cabinet that has cat6/hdmi etc from storage room where server is.

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by Crunch

I might need educating... I thought I had it covered. What could I do better? What advantages would I have? Server is about 20 cable feet from Xbox/wall outlet behind cabinet that has cat6/hdmi etc from storage room where server is.

20' cable about $20 or less worth it 100% Check bluejeanscable

you gain full bluray support (with hd audio and 3d if you want)

full rip movie support for dvd's and blurays (requires TMT)

native netflix interface inside WMC

Online TV section in WMC (which is really quite nice offers allot of shows imho like big bang theory and such)

it's worth it trust me