http://enghddev.weblogsinc.com/2009/02/06/sagetv-hd-theater-review/ Engadget HD Comments for SageTV HD Theater review http://enghddev.weblogsinc.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://enghddev.weblogsinc.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://enghddev.weblogsinc.com/2009/02/06/sagetv-hd-theater-review/http://enghddev.weblogsinc.com/2009/02/06/sagetv-hd-theater-review/Feb 6th 2009 2:44PMhttp://enghddev.weblogsinc.com/2009/02/06/sagetv-hd-theater-review/http://enghddev.weblogsinc.com/2009/02/06/sagetv-hd-theater-review/Feb 6th 2009 3:12PMhttp://enghddev.weblogsinc.com/2009/02/06/sagetv-hd-theater-review/http://enghddev.weblogsinc.com/2009/02/06/sagetv-hd-theater-review/
Between regular updates and an active, supported forum I wholeheartedly recommend them.

We have been discussing a Media Streamer for our house so we'll have to see how well this box will incorporate into our satellite system.]]>Feb 6th 2009 3:12PMhttp://enghddev.weblogsinc.com/2009/02/06/sagetv-hd-theater-review/http://enghddev.weblogsinc.com/2009/02/06/sagetv-hd-theater-review/Feb 6th 2009 3:21PMhttp://enghddev.weblogsinc.com/2009/02/06/sagetv-hd-theater-review/http://enghddev.weblogsinc.com/2009/02/06/sagetv-hd-theater-review/Feb 6th 2009 3:30PMhttp://enghddev.weblogsinc.com/2009/02/06/sagetv-hd-theater-review/http://enghddev.weblogsinc.com/2009/02/06/sagetv-hd-theater-review/A firmware update for WMV and dvr-ms is in the works]]>Feb 6th 2009 3:44PMhttp://enghddev.weblogsinc.com/2009/02/06/sagetv-hd-theater-review/http://enghddev.weblogsinc.com/2009/02/06/sagetv-hd-theater-review/
With Sage, you can either customize the UI yourself, or download dozens of skins or full GUI replacements. Or go whole hog and install plugins that automatically skip commercials, do OSD of your phone's CID, burn DVDs (media files you've recorded are DRM free!) browse the web, get RSS feeds on a screen crawl or integrate with your Home Automation system.

It probably took you longer to compose the sentences complaining about the skeletal UI than it takes download the SageMC GUI extension (a whole 3 minutes). Yeesh.]]>Feb 6th 2009 9:26PMhttp://enghddev.weblogsinc.com/2009/02/06/sagetv-hd-theater-review/http://enghddev.weblogsinc.com/2009/02/06/sagetv-hd-theater-review/
Does this box have 24P playback?
]]>Feb 6th 2009 4:30PMhttp://enghddev.weblogsinc.com/2009/02/06/sagetv-hd-theater-review/http://enghddev.weblogsinc.com/2009/02/06/sagetv-hd-theater-review/Feb 6th 2009 4:13PMhttp://enghddev.weblogsinc.com/2009/02/06/sagetv-hd-theater-review/http://enghddev.weblogsinc.com/2009/02/06/sagetv-hd-theater-review/Feb 6th 2009 4:18PMhttp://enghddev.weblogsinc.com/2009/02/06/sagetv-hd-theater-review/http://enghddev.weblogsinc.com/2009/02/06/sagetv-hd-theater-review/Feb 6th 2009 4:18PMhttp://enghddev.weblogsinc.com/2009/02/06/sagetv-hd-theater-review/http://enghddev.weblogsinc.com/2009/02/06/sagetv-hd-theater-review/It can play files with TrueHD. For TrueHD the HD Theater extracts the core AC3 stream out of the audio track]]>Feb 6th 2009 4:25PMhttp://enghddev.weblogsinc.com/2009/02/06/sagetv-hd-theater-review/http://enghddev.weblogsinc.com/2009/02/06/sagetv-hd-theater-review/Feb 6th 2009 7:22PMhttp://enghddev.weblogsinc.com/2009/02/06/sagetv-hd-theater-review/http://enghddev.weblogsinc.com/2009/02/06/sagetv-hd-theater-review/Feb 6th 2009 11:47PMhttp://enghddev.weblogsinc.com/2009/02/06/sagetv-hd-theater-review/http://enghddev.weblogsinc.com/2009/02/06/sagetv-hd-theater-review/
cheers, -rivertrance.]]>Feb 6th 2009 11:07PMhttp://enghddev.weblogsinc.com/2009/02/06/sagetv-hd-theater-review/http://enghddev.weblogsinc.com/2009/02/06/sagetv-hd-theater-review/Feb 7th 2009 3:12AMhttp://enghddev.weblogsinc.com/2009/02/06/sagetv-hd-theater-review/http://enghddev.weblogsinc.com/2009/02/06/sagetv-hd-theater-review/Feb 8th 2009 8:56AMhttp://enghddev.weblogsinc.com/2009/02/06/sagetv-hd-theater-review/http://enghddev.weblogsinc.com/2009/02/06/sagetv-hd-theater-review/Mar 25th 2009 2:29AMhttp://enghddev.weblogsinc.com/2009/02/06/sagetv-hd-theater-review/http://enghddev.weblogsinc.com/2009/02/06/sagetv-hd-theater-review/
I find the look of SageTV (and the SageMC extension) to be extremely dated and plain. I have though about switching over from Vista media center many many times to get things like PC's as extenders and HDPVR support but Sage really is just too ugly. I tried all of the themes I could find for it but they were all very similar and plain.

If Sage would just wake up and do a GUI refresh I think they would see an influx of new customers.]]>Feb 11th 2009 6:12AM