SageTV HD Theater review {Engadget HD}

Feb 6th 2009 3:37PM I find the review complaint about the UI pretty disingenuous; Sage is a framework. The difference with your cableco DVR or your Tivo is that you are STUCK with their interface and their functions, whether you think they're fugly or not.

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.