Update: SageTV 6.4 for Windows Home Server Released

Tue, Aug 19, 2008 | Terry Walsh

Good news for those running SageTV for Windows Home Server – the latest version of the product has just been released as a free update for all users.

New features are as follows:

Support for the Hauppauge HD PVR (Official on Windows, Experimental on Linux)
Automatic STVI Generation in the SageTV Studio
EXIF metadata/thumbnail support for JPEGs
new file system & network browser
H.264 videos from YouTube
High definition photo display on the STX-HD100
File transfers to/from Placeshifter clients
Editing of aspect ratios on the fly for the STX-HD100
Lots of bugs fixes & performance enhancements

Those of you running SageTV, how do you like it? How well does it compare to Windows Media Center?

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Marius Says:
August 19th, 2008 at 9:54 am

It is difficult to compare SageTV to Windows Media Center since only SageTV runs on Windows Home Server… I am running SageTV because I then can turn of all my other computers and let WHS/SageTV record the shows I want to watch. It records in standard MPG-2 which is easily convertable (and playable) on many more devices than the DVR-format of WHS. The interface of WMC is slicker than SageTV but I think the featureset is quite similar. SageTV allows for more tuners and mixing of different tuners with different “lineups” (like analog and digital cabel, both available through the same interface).

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Marius Says:
August 19th, 2008 at 9:54 am
It is difficult to compare SageTV to Windows Media Center since only SageTV runs on Windows Home Server… I am running SageTV because I then can turn of all my other computers and let WHS/SageTV record the shows I want to watch. It records in standard MPG-2 which is easily convertable (and playable) on many more devices than the DVR-format of WHS. The interface of WMC is slicker than SageTV but I think the featureset is quite similar. SageTV allows for more tuners and mixing of different tuners with different “lineups” (like analog and digital cabel, both available through the same interface).
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