Congrats on the HD media extender and Sage Server system

[insomniac]

seriously....Sign me up for the Beta list on this one! I have tons of HD content to start enjoying on my 55" HDTV!

[White94Cobra]

I'm up for a beta... Watching HD while recording 3-4 HD streams is murder on my server.

[flavius]

Any beta might actually involve purchasing one of those devices - at least that's how I would do it.

Still, I think, there won't be any shortage of testers

[AngelofDeth]

Originally Posted by blade

I'm very curious as to how it handles 480i as well. There is still a lot of programming than is SD so it needs to do a good job on all types of content.

I hope analog outputs are available... would be nice to have a more powerful extender available, such as no transcoding for divx/xvid, or even down resed HDTV.

[Lucas]

Originally Posted by Narflex

Glad to hear you all like the HD extender and the new media server. They'll be out sometime in Q2 of '07.

Narflex,
What's there to like, we ain't seen nothin yet!

Seriously, can you at least divulge if the HD extender will be based on an existing box or will it be something OEMed for SageTV?

Also will it be available and supported for European users (PAL support etc)?

Will its announcement be in Q2 as well?

[JasonJoel]

This would have been great about 1-1.5 years ago... Have a whole house full of XBOX 360 to watch HD content now through my MCE interface.

Oh well.

Jason Bottjen

[Kirby]

Originally Posted by JasonJoel

This would have been great about 1-1.5 years ago... Have a whole house full of XBOX 360 to watch HD content now through my MCE interface.

Oh well.

Jason Bottjen

And if you are in an area that is getting ATT U-verse, or have another provider going the 'Microsoft TV' way, you are going to love whats coming for the XBOX! (http://on10.net/blogs/tina/you-heard...arbon-is-real/)

[insomniac]

Hell, i'd buy 2 to get into the beta group

I.

Originally Posted by flavius

Any beta might actually involve purchasing one of those devices - at least that's how I would do it.

Still, I think, there won't be any shortage of testers

[GbrNole]

pics are strangely missing from this thread 2 days later...

c'mon fellas please wet our appetite just a little bit more and oh yeah, i'll be waiting on that beta-team invitation - i have $400 just burning a hole in my pocket here

[bhyman1]

Sign me up

[castylx]

Put me down as a beta testers, and I'll pre-order 2 today (if I could)!

[gplasky]

Here's my order:

QTY: 2
Product: Sage HD Extender
Ship to: address on file

Let me know if you need more info.

Thanks in advance.


(probably be here Day 1 of Q2)


Gerry

[mikesm]

Originally Posted by GbrNole

pics are strangely missing from this thread 2 days later...

c'mon fellas please wet our appetite just a little bit more and oh yeah, i'll be waiting on that beta-team invitation - i have $400 just burning a hole in my pocket here

Ok, I have good news and bad news.

The bad news is that I didn't have time to get back to the sage booth and take pics before flying home.

The good news is that a friend of mine who is also a power sage user is still at the show today, and I called him up and he took pics of the HD extender with his cell phone. So as soon as I get them from him I'll post them.

thanks,
mike

[Fluffdaddy]

Hey you guys......Get in line

[hotwire]

Will the new server use windows or linux?

[heffe2001]

Originally Posted by bcjenkins

A little googling turns up a chip from Sigma called the WMV9.. If it is related, then Buffalo tech is shipping a unit with DVD built in based on this chip.. I wonder if it would work with Sage's firmware on it...

B

edit corrected sentence structure..

Have I not been saying for quite a while that the HD extender is a Linktheater from Buffalo? (Well, look like it might not be a off the shelf one, but surely based on it, and I'd bet dollars to doughnuts it's the LT guts in a new fancy case...).

Now to find the order link so I can order 2 for me, and a multitude for my customers .

[95TBird]

ok... Lets see... List of things to do...

1. get new HD Media Extender

2. Put Better System board & CPU from Client PC into Server

3. Sell Server System Board, CPU, Case, Etc.. on EBay

So Jeff... Where is the Sign up list for these puppies ???

[Diginerd]

More on iTV

Originally Posted by alijiwani

it does have a HD, a small one - 40GB, syncs with 1 Itunes computer but can accept streams of up to 5.

Price - no competition - 300.

However, since there are other uses for it, I am more inclined to buy one of those. If sage could make a server plugin for Itunes to make recordings available - then I could watch them via the Apple TV that way I'd even be willing to pay for the plug-in - the same fee we pay for the media extender license. Only fair I think.
Then again, maybe one of the gurus on this forum will figure out how to make a free plug-in that does the same thing? (I see profit opportunity for Sage here)

Hmm. I didn't know it did that. iPodifier (which I still use in preference to sage's transcoding) has a great feature that when it's done transcoding it inserts the updated file into iTunes ready for sync with your iPod. Is should be more than trivial for that to be updated to simply stick referenced files straight into iTunes...

Now, if the sage extender worked as well / better than the MVPs do for SD stuff and is available before the end of Q2 then I won't even bother looking at the Apple Toy. Even though I love both Apple and toys!

[pez]

here are pics of the front and back (or vice versa).

[reboot_this]

Originally Posted by pez

here are pics of the front and back (or vice versa).

Thanks Pez, PICTURES!!!

I for one, can't wait to get a couple of these... I still was hoping it had a built-in DVD player (maybe they can slip one in for the production model.)

come on Sage guys, put a dvd player in it!