Hdhomerun and mAc! Hopefully sage will be updated soon for support!

[mohanman]

http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/41...omerun_for_mac

[flavius]

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Pricing & Availability
HDHomeRun for Mac is available immediately, for U$199.95, exclusively in the Elgato Online Shop. The package includes the HDHomeRun dual-tuner network device, EyeTV 2 software for two computers, two RG6 cables, an Ethernet cable and AC power adapter.

[hotwire]

Anyone have any word on when we might see support for the HD HomeRun on the Mac?

[mohanman]

I wouldnt mind the Hdhomerun support, but USB-UIRT support would be better for now!
Mo!

[Diginerd]

So I have a HD Homerun, a couple of PVR 250s and I also have a pair of Firewire enabled STBs. I've been a longtime Sage user, and I was fed up with the pain of trying to get HDTV to display properly as well as the lack of HD Extender support so I decided to try Vista MCE.

Big mistake.

To say that despite the eye candy Vista MCE is far from being ready for primetime is an understatement, but that said, my XBox 360 does a rocking job of playing back HDTV streams with the seamless fluidity I've been begging for. Oooh hardware playback...

So what next? I tried MythTv..

Ugh, ok on paper it's slamming, but boy is it a B**** to configure and the GUI is straight out of the early 90s.

In my "Other" life I'm a hardcore MacHead. So I tinkered with some of the links in my other post about HDTV and I found that my old dual 1.25 G4 has ZERO problems recording 2 HD streams over firewire (iRecord) at the same time as 2 x from my HDHomerun (HDHomerunner). I could also get it to handle an additional SD stream from a PVR 250 USB at the same time. No exotic hardware involved, CPU was runing around 15%.

Given the underlying joys of Quicktime & the availability of the Apple SDK for firewire it boggles my mind that there is no support in Sage for either of these recording methods in the OSX Version of Sage.

Come on guys, pleeeeasse!

For me this is a HUGE USP (Unique Selling Point) of Sage on the Mac. Firewire under XP/Vista has always been sketchy for me. Having 2 IEE1394 streams running on the same box is unheard of in M$ land, never mind doing it at the same time as live viewing of one of those streams. No matter how exotic tthe hardware I've tried.

I mucked about for 45 mins with my brand new Mac this weekend (Ok it's a monster, but....) and I had no issues trying live viewing of ALL FOUR HDTV streams. With a bit of tinkering I got my PC to play another stream over the network, but it was stuttery, even if the Mac was just recording and not playing back.

No matter how much money I have spent on PC hardware this is beyond a dream. Given the Muscle that M$ is trying to bring to the PVR market, the pain that Myth brings and is about to go through with the ending of Zap2It i feel that Sage is in a great spot to clean up in the HDTV PVR market. We just need some driver / Mac based network encoders / whatever it takes support for HDtV via STB and HDHomerun.

I've been trying to get this to work for 3 years now, and currently my local cable co (Bless their little cotten socks) still does not 5c anything. That's 40+ channels of HDTV that I could get at if only we had support.

Pretty please with sugar on top, can someone from Frey, or Anders & crew make this hapen?

[mohanman]

I totally agree. As a previous windows fan, and now in the past 4 months switched over completely to mac systems, I am very impressed. Mac systems seem more stable, work quicker, and get things done, not to mention look cool.

I really do hope sagetv progresses with the mac os. HDhomerun support is already out there, and it shouldnt take too long to get it in sage? I hope usb-uirt support is soon too. That would complete everything i need, besides of course a nice sagetv hd extender!

Yippie!

Mo!

[editordz]

I would just like to add that the day support for the HDhomerun is added to SageTV, you will have a customer in me.

-Dan

[procon]

I just bought an EyeTV license for its HD Homerun support, but I'm still really interested in Sage, which has deeper PVR features.

Cheers,
Ari

[xtrmtrk]

I'd buy SageTV in a minute if it supported the HDHomeRun I already own.

[dotheDVDeed]

Mac *plus* HD Homerun *plus* HD Extender *equals* a winning combination.


Please!

[mohanman]

Totally agree. I was thinking about switching to mce and their extenders.. but I think the whole cablecard thing and the way the extenders look for mce may be trouble. I will wait for the hd extenders for sage, and hopefully soon they will have hdhomerun support for mac and hopefully an ir blaster. If that firewire thing works out, they may be the total solution

So for me,
Sage hd extender x 2, mac, hdhomerun, firewire = crap in my pants, which is a good thing.

Mo!