So long SageTV, hello crapy TWC

[jbrandon]

We are patiently waiting for Google Fiber to be installed, sometime in the next 60 days. Meanwhile Time Warner Cable has finally decided to go 100% digital meaning a box must be at every TV. In the past the equipment was so big and downright ugly we reused to use the boxes besides our main TV watching was via SageTV. I personally never watch live broadcast TV. I have always liked the ability to "time shift" what and when we watched whatever program. Besides I hate commercials.

With the new signal converter we will no longer be able to use SageTV so the end of February we will be shutting down the SageTV server, I guess for good. I have learned the new TWC boxes are a converter, not a fully fledged TV box so I am guessing the signal will be up shifted to 1080 for the non HD channels or they will be boxed, another thing I hate. Of course there is no DVR with these boxes so no way to time shift, and there is no QAM signals anymore either.

I know we will not be able to use SageTV with Google Fiber and still will not have the wonderful commercial skip ability but at least we will be rid of TWC. Another plus we will probably be able to watch a movie on Netflix without buffering!!

Looking back I started using Beyond TV in 2003, switched to SageTV in 2004 because of the media center which was an add-on for Beyond TV. Quickly made friends with SageTV and learned to love it and have never looked back or questioned my decision to use SageTV. My wiz.bin is 34,104,000 and takes 7 minutes to load.

I will miss the ease of use of SageTV and I will really miss the community as a whole, you are a bunch of great guys and gals out there. Good luck and I truly hope Jeff will come forward with something new he promised when Google purchase SageTV.

So long and good luck to all...

[will]

Good luck with Google Fiber.

Originally Posted by jbrandon

I know we will not be able to use SageTV with Google Fiber and still will not have the wonderful commercial skip ability but at least we will be rid of TWC.

Why wouldn't a HD-PVR 2 or a Colossus work with Google Fiber? I realize Google Fiber has a really nice DVR built in with multiple tuners (I think six) and you probably wouldn't want to use SageTV. Is there a specific reason why a HD-PVR or Colossus wouldn't work?

[dgeezer]

I am also in an area served by TimeWarner cable. I'm chugging along with SageTV, probably the same as you. I have a mix of clear QAM and analogue channels. I have one of their converter boxes, however, I can't get it to work. I have 2 friends with these boxes and both of them had to get a servece guy to come out in order to get the box working. I haven't actually seen their setup to know what the picture quality is like.

Could you get by with Over the Air in SageTV until fiber gets there?

I've had ota running on Npvr for about 6 months now. I did this mostly to work out my antenna setup so that I would be ready when TWC switches us to all digital encrypted. I figured it would happen by now. I'm not sure if I would keep SageTV for OTA or switch to Npvr with a Kodi front end. I really love comskip and would hate to give that up.

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by dgeezer

I am also in an area served by TimeWarner cable. I'm chugging along with SageTV, probably the same as you. I have a mix of clear QAM and analogue channels. I have one of their converter boxes, however, I can't get it to work. I have 2 friends with these boxes and both of them had to get a servece guy to come out in order to get the box working. I haven't actually seen their setup to know what the picture quality is like.

Could you get by with Over the Air in SageTV until fiber gets there?

I've had ota running on Npvr for about 6 months now. I did this mostly to work out my antenna setup so that I would be ready when TWC switches us to all digital encrypted. I figured it would happen by now. I'm not sure if I would keep SageTV for OTA or switch to Npvr with a Kodi front end. I really love comskip and would hate to give that up.

Comskip works great with KODI you just have to add this to ini when creating comskip files edl_skip_field=3. I am using NPVR with kodi.

[mtenboer]

NYPlayer - are you running Kodi/NPVR as a client on a RPI ? OpenElec? It appears there is a bug related to the NPVR addon causing a problem viewing live TV that they have not released an update to correct. Is your system working ok?

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by mtenboer

NYPlayer - are you running Kodi/NPVR as a client on a RPI ? OpenElec? It appears there is a bug related to the NPVR addon causing a problem viewing live TV that they have not released an update to correct. Is your system working ok?

Yes I am I got a fix from MVallend and fixed the problem there is a thread for it in the NPVR forum.... You can also Install the X-NEWA plugin and view livetv and sort the shows by episodes... and more.