Are you using the default STV (OriginalV2.stv) that comes with SageTV 2?

[salsbst]

maldude + weather report suite + a few tweaks of my own

[broderp]

Originally posted by EncoderHouse
I'm using the original SageTV 2 skin with some extras i added in.

How did you add "some extras" ....did you get studio also?

[sticky]

Mlbdude 2

[mightyt]

Originally posted by mlbdude
Yes, at this point all the STV's are almost identical in look and feel. My MlbDude2 skin is a little different but not much.

I would love to see some that are radically different. Something like this maybe .

http://forums.sage.tv/forums/showthr...&threadid=6575

So??

When will you be starting the effort??

I'd like to see what you can do ... You up to the Pepsi Challenge!

[mlbdude]

Originally posted by mightyt
So??

When will you be starting the effort??

I'd like to see what you can do ... You up to the Pepsi Challenge!

I want to do it but I am no longer doing any unofficial STV work. If the Frey guys decide they want to do it and make it an official UI for SageTV I would be all over it.

[Rob]

I switch between Mlbdude2 and Neilm.

[mightyt]

Originally Posted by mlbdude

I want to do it but I am no longer doing any unofficial STV work. If the Frey guys decide they want to do it and make it an official UI for SageTV I would be all over it.

I hope you are expressing interest ... Maybe they will take you up on it!!

I know a lot of guys around here would appreciate it ...

[turak]

I went from malore to maldude to neilm. I like the look and feel of mlbdudes and the functionality of malores. neilm managed to combine them well and add some nice features of his own. maldude was nice also, but there hasn't been an update in a while so it's missing features like weather suite and comskip.

[turak]

This may not be the best location for this poll. I would think that the people that frequent the 'SageTV Customizations' forum would be alot more likely to use an alternate STV. You would have probably gotten alot more Original STV users if you had posted this in 'General Discussion' or 'SageTV Software'.

[ToxMox]

Is there an echo in here?

Originally Posted by ToxMox

Posting this in the Customizations board may return a higher percentage of people using custom STVs than if it had been posted in General.

Originally Posted by Opus4

I'm guessing that any response on this forum will lean towards using a custom STV -- I don't know how many customers don't frequent the forum, but I would guess they would have a higher percentage still using the original STV.

Originally Posted by turak

This may not be the best location for this poll. I would think that the people that frequent the 'SageTV Customizations' forum would be alot more likely to use an alternate STV. You would have probably gotten alot more Original STV users if you had posted this in 'General Discussion' or 'SageTV Software'.

[turak]

Originally Posted by ToxMox

Is there an echo in here?

I guess I should read all of the previous posts before posting myself.

[Opus4]

My post was in response to ToxMox's. But,my reference to 'this forum' really meant the entire forum.

Looks like it is staying around 4:1; custom STV : original STV.

- Andy

[EncoderHouse]

Originally Posted by broderp

How did you add "some extras" ....did you get studio also?

Yes, back in February. just not ready to push out to the public.

[gplasky]

I use both MlbDude2 and Neil 1.3 ... Both excellent ... but usually stay with MlbDude on my client.

Gerry

[zz5]

mightyt,

Thanks very much for the great response to my question. It really helped me out a lot. If I would have realized that you could just use the STV's on the client and not the server, I would have been using these a long time ago.

[zz5]

I'd like to take this opportunity to post my thoughts on the poll. I think the results of the poll might be biased in favor of those using custom STV's. Although the results might show lots of votes from those using customs STV's, there might be an improper skew.

[mlbdude]

I think Jeff knows that the people that actively use these forums and takeing an active role in extending SageTV represent that 10% of users classified as "advanced" users.

I think he is looking to see what that 10% is doing .

[stanger89]

Originally Posted by zz5

I'd like to take this opportunity to post my thoughts on the poll. I think the results of the poll might be biased in favor of those using custom STV's. Although the results might show lots of votes from those using customs STV's, there might be an improper skew.

I'd guess that the results are pretty accurate, as far as us forum users go, but I'd guess also that there are plenty of people who aren't active on this forum that are just using the default STV, either because they're happy with it, or don't know there are alternatives.

[zz5]

I've got to tell you, I'm still not convinced. I'm still not really comfortable with accuracy of poll. I think maybe we need some kind of follow up poll. This could be done with a second thread, or maybe one of the moderators could somehow stick a poll right in the middle of this thread. This poll would help us determine the number of advanced users versus normal users. I can do some charts and graphs. I have Paint Shop Pro.

[mightyt]

Originally Posted by zz5

mightyt,

Thanks very much for the great response to my question. It really helped me out a lot. If I would have realized that you could just use the STV's on the client and not the server, I would have been using these a long time ago.

You bet ... any time ... and you definitely win the cool lookin' cat award ...

Looks like it glows in the dark!! What do you feed it??

That eliminates the concern for stepping on it's tail!!

OK ... I digress ...