Tuesday, February 03, 2009

SageTV 6.5 Released from Beta

The team at SageTV has been releasing beta's for SageTV 6.5 at a frequent pace since November.  Today, they released 6.5 out of beta so if you've been holding out for the release version, today is your day.

We've covered most of the high points from 6.5 during each beta release, but here are the more notable feature updates for SageTV 6.5

http://sagetv.com/download.html
Some of the major changes for V6.5 are:

  • Full support for the HD200 as a media extender
  • Optimized bandwidth usage in the Placeshifter
  • Beta support for Hauppauge HD-PVR on the Mac
  • EVR (Enhanced Video Renderer) support on Windows
  • Optimized HDHomeRun network usage on all platforms
  • Support for HD YouTube videos
  • Various bug fixes and performance enhancements


The full list of changes are contained in the latest release notes topic (v6.5.9 changes are here) & earlier release notes from the v6.5 beta.

 

Owners of SageTV 6.x can upgrade to this version for free.  Get the download from here