[mythtv-users] BeyondTV and SageTV - interesting research

[Brian Wood]

On Feb 6, 2007, at 10:58 AM, kanetse at gmail.com wrote:

> On 2/6/07, Trey Thompson <treythompson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Well, I call it research.
>>
>> Just for "shiggles", I downloaded and installed BeyondTV and  
>> SageTV on my
>> laptop last night.  Man, awesome installation, helpfiles, etc...  
>> for both
>> programs.  Don't have any tuner in the laptop, so couldn't test  
>> any of that,
>> but I copied a show from Myth over so that it could be seen.   
>> Pretty cool
>> playback.  The overall installations were cool.
>>
>> PLUS, Sage I think, has a COOL option for settup up your screen  
>> resize...
>>
>> HOWEVER!!!
>> They ain'g got NUTHING on Myth as far as features go!
>
> I'd be very interested in seeing a table somewhere with an un-biased
> side-by-side feature comparison of all MythTV vs. Windows XP MCE vs.
> BeyondTV, etc.  Anyone know where one such thing might exist?

No. But don't leave EyeTV for the Mac out of the mix. I admit I use  
it sometimes when I don't have to edit much and I just want to  
export, not watch it.

One really nice thing is the easy export to just about any file type,  
format, compression, audio type, or anything else you want - just  
pick the final format you want, click the mouse and wait (sometimes  
for a long time).

Some of the other commercial offerings might have similar features  
but I wouldn't know.