Comments on GeekTonic: SageTV Selling & Shipping Hauppauge HD-PVR's Now

Amazon & Buy.com also have it. But they seem to be...

2008-07-20T03:20:46.201-05:00

Amazon & Buy.com also have it. But they seem to be both out of stock. I think I got my order through to Amazon before it went out of stock Friday night! :)

Anonymous,the 5.1 driver is reportedly coming soon...

2008-07-18T13:05:25.425-05:00

Anonymous,
the 5.1 driver is reportedly coming soon (their working on it right now), but as far as stability I don't know if any stability issues. If there are stutter issues it's more likely a result of the PC/device doing the playback and/or the codec. I have excellent playback on my dual-processor HTPC as well as my SageTV HD100 extender.

Hi Brent,Yep... I saw that there was new stuff on ...

2008-07-18T12:04:46.626-05:00

Hi Brent,
Yep... I saw that there was new stuff on the SageTV forum about it. I'll try it out this weekend.

Any ETA on a driver update that might improve stab...

2008-07-18T11:53:18.507-05:00

Any ETA on a driver update that might improve stability? (I keep hearing of of stutter issues)

And 5.1?

Nathan,The last several betas of SageTV including ...

2008-07-18T11:23:46.394-05:00

Nathan,
The last several betas of SageTV including v6.4.5 have very stable support for the HD-PVR - matter of fact I think SageTV is the only HTPC software not having bugs in their HD-PVR support.

And the issues with the OTA HDHomeRun I think (not positive) have been hashed out. I wouldn't be surprised to see 6.4 go out of beta before too long. Bottom line selling the HD-PVR via SageTV is a great way to package things and a way to get the HD-PVRs faster than through the line that exists at Hauppauge. Thats my opinion for what its worth ;)

Sorry, that should read... "This seems a bit backw...

2008-07-18T11:23:06.192-05:00

Sorry, that should read... "This seems a bit backwards."

This seems a big backwards. SageTV should be rele...

2008-07-18T11:18:39.120-05:00

This seems a big backwards. SageTV should be released before they start selling a bundled device that is only supported in a beta. The last beta (v6.4.5) has some show stopper problems for OTA with a HDHomeRun (in my experience)... however it may be stable for the HD-PVR. It's just an odd (or at least not very conservative) move by SageTV.