[mythtv-users] SageTV HD200 as an HD MythTV frontend?

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Fri Jan 30 01:03:35 UTC 2009


On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Travis Tabbal <travis at tabbal.net> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Patrick Davila <pdavila at thelinuxlink.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> Geektonic did a nice writeup on the SageTV HD200 media extender:
>> http://www.sagetv.com/hd_theater.html?sageSub=tv
>>
>> The box is apparently running Linux under the hood. It's using a 300mhz
>> Sigma SMP 8635 LF chipset.
>>
>> For $200 I'd buy a pair of them in a heartbeat if we could get MythTV
>> running on them. If SageTV locks this thing up in a similar fashion as the
>> Roku Netflix player maybe we do an end run and get it unlocked from the
>> hardware manufacturer?
>
> The supported formats reads a lot like the Popcorn Hour. The small size
> would be nice for a number of people I'm sure. I wish it had DTS playback
> (without passthrough). For places I would want a small box like this, I
> don't have an amp to connect it to. Looks like a nice box though, if it
> could run mythfrontend, it could be a winner.

It does claim to support uPnP so it could perform some of the
functions of a frontend, primarily playing media.

Not as good as a full front end, but a wireless laptop running mythweb
can be used for scheduling etc.


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