Posted by Bill's News on 02/19/07 14:32

"Smarty" <nobody@nobody.com> wrote in message
news:HoqdnacQoP2sYUXYnZ2dnUVZ_vyunZ2d@adelphia.com...
> Looks like we are both approaching the home TV solution with
> similar approaches. I never tried to do a totally "home brew"
> solution, and have no real desire to write VB scripts, HTML,
> etc. The Sage solution has just sorta' "grown on me" in the
> sense that I have gradually kept adding more clients # $99 as
> each family member complained that they wanted to watch it in
> the kitchen, bedrooms, exercise room, etc. I will be adding HD
> capture and playback here also in the near future and am still
> not sure if I want to devote a second server to HDTV or put
> another card in the already crowded SDTV box and risk
> overheating it.
>
>
> I think this way of doing home TV is totally superb, and would
> never be happy with a TiVo. I especially like the fact that
> Sage has codecs which directly encode into formats I can take
> on the road and use portable or into formats which make
> beautiful DVDs without any further transcoding in just 6 or 7
> minutes to burn the disk.
>
> Smarty

Both of your posts are compelling;-0) I think it would be worth
re-testing Sage here to see whether it might not have the
conflict between these two capture devices that their own
software does? Sometime next week I expect to have time for
that and am leaving a note for myself right now. Thanks for
sharing.

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